Interview excerpt in which Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains that his practice (Pinnacle) practices "holistic orthopedics": integrating modern functional medicine and regenerative therapies into orthopedic care to improve patients' overall health and, where possible, prevent surgery rather than default to operative interventions.
Doctor Schechter, your practice is really different than the average orthopedic doctor's practice. Can you tell me a little bit about what's different? Very different? Well, first of all, we practice what I like to call holistic orthopedics. So holistic orthopedics is basically taking the spectrum of medicine and applying it to an orthopedic practice, like everything that we have in modern functional medicine, everything that we have, the way that we think about health and the way that we think about regenerative therapies, and then we want to use it in focused ways throughout the orthopedic journey. So that at Pinnacle, we're not just looking to do surgery. We really would like to improve our patients overall health and wellness and maybe even prevent a surgery.
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