Jennifer Weiss, Osteopathic Physician

Functional Medical Package

This package is a great entry point into the practice as well as an effective way to target the most common health problems.

Components

  • Comprehensive intake visit to review your medical and health history, your current concerns and a review of your lifestyle.
  • Diagnostic Plan: this will include recommendations for consultations, imaging or lab testing, as well as foundational functional medicine labs.
  • Wellness Plan: a baseline plan of lifestyle changes and supplements that will be a foundation of all other treatment plans.
  • Diagnostic Lab Analysis
  • Telemedicine visit for diagnostics review and initial therapeutic protocols. This visit ranges from 45 -60 minutes and may include a review of future protocols as well as starting plans.
  • Ordering of prescription and supplement orders or referral letters.
  • 30-45 minute protocol update visit every two months.
  • 15-20 minute check in visit every two months.
  • Educational resources
  • Q&A resources including messaging through the patient portal

Timing

The chronicity, number and severity of health issues and lab findings impact how long healing takes. For some people a wellness plan is enough. It’s been my experience, more recently, however that everyone is under strain, and labs generally show depletion and deficiencies, which need to be addressed by a gentle rebuilding of key body systems. Packages are customized to your concerns, your body system, and the results from your labs. Some people are acutely sensitive and require gentler slower treatments, while others can tolerate more intensive healing protocols. Because of this, Packages are billed with an initial start up fee followed by a monthly rate. The start up fee covers the initial 3 months after which billing is monthly. Some patients will need 6 months or even less, others will need much longer.

Other Information

  • All visits are televisits.
    • ZOOM is used for visits 45 minutes and longer so that labs and documents can be reviewed.
    • Shorter visits can be either zoom or phone.
  • The cost of the supplements, medications, labs and other testing are not included.
  • The start up fee is non-refundable
  • Patients can stop the process at any time and cancel the monthly billing
  • Additional services and visits with Dr. Weiss and outside referrals are billed at hourly rates
  • If labs have been done with other practitioners they may be used instead of ordering new labs but this is dependent on the lab done, when it was done, and what treatment was done since the results were obtained. In some cases if there are significant number of prior labs to review there can be an additional lab analysis fee.

Add On Services

The following services can be added to facilitate and support your healing journey. Each of these services is with Dr. Weiss and billed at her hourly rate. Some of these services can be obtained from outside practitioners.

Osteopathic Treatments

Treatments can greatly facilitate healing on all levels of body mind and spirit. these are recommended at intervals of every 2, 3, 4 or 6 weeks, depending on your concerns and goals. Patients with more sensitive systems will benefit from having treatments as these strengthen the neuro-endocrine-immune system allowing for increased capacity to heal. The greatest limitation is availability as there are a very limited number of openings for these treatments. Scheduling recurring appointments in advance, or getting on the waiting list is recommended.

Lifestyle coaching

Lifestyle coaching with Dr. Weiss is allows integration of all aspects of your wellness journey. In fact, lifestyle changes will be the foundation of your maintained health over time. In the beginning of a healing journey, or when problems are more severe or acute it can be challenging to make lifestyle changes but with support and therapeutic programs most people are able to build enough reserve to make healthy changes.

The choice to use lifestyle coaching is easy – everyone should do it. However, you don’t have to do coaching with Dr. Weiss and referrals can be arranged to other practitioners. The benefit of this is generally a financial savings and sometimes the focus of a practitioner who is expert in a particular area. The benefit of working with Dr. Weiss is your coaching and foundational medical program will be integrated.

Coaching with Dr. Weiss is through telemedicine visits and can occur as often as weekly but generally is 1-2 times per month after initial plans are made. Visits are either 45 or 60 minutes.

Journey and Inquiry Work

Using experience, intuition and training, Dr. Weiss will guide you on exploration of psyche, spirit and heart. This may include mindfulness practice, journey work or dialoguing. As with coaching this type of work can happen with other practitioners who specialize in it. This type of work is not appropriate for those suffering from PTSD, trauma, major depressive disorder or other psychiatric diagnoses. In some cases, while under the supervision of another specialist this work can be used as an adjunct. Visits with Dr. Weiss are scheduled with flexible time but generally are 50 minutes.

Additional Visits

If you are needing more care due to other health issues, changes in your life or acute issues or just want more time to get questions answered and understand treatments or your health challenges, additional visits can be scheduled. Osteopathic treatments can be scheduled depending on availability. Online visits can be self-scheduled through the patient portal. Self- scheduling will limit the visit time to 45 minutes but if you need a shorter or longer visit you can reach out to the office through messaging.

What is harmony but Health?  It takes harmony of every nerve, vein and artery in every part of the body. ~ A.T. Still

Harmony only dwells where obstructions do not exist
—A.T. Still

Spirit in osteopathy turns out to be scientific, practical, and very useful in a medical medel that Osteopathic Physicianscan readily abide by. ~ From interface; Mechanisms of Spirit in Osteopathy by A.T. Still

The breath of life in the cerebrospinal fluid Tide is the fundamental principal in the primary respiratory mechanism. ~ W.G Sutherland

Man should study and use the drugs compounded in his own body. ~A.T. Stills

The greatest mistake in the treatment of disease is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. ~ Plato

Here you lay aside the long words, and use your mind in deep and silent earnestness; drink deep from the eternal fountain of reason, penetrate the forests of that law whose beauties are life and death. ~ A.T. Still

The hearing of spirit is not limited… the whole being listens.  There is a direct grasp of what is right before you, that can never be heard with the ear, or understood with the mind. ~ Thomas Merton

All diseases are mere effects, the cause being a partial or complete failure of the nerves to properly conduct the fluids of life. ~ A.T. Still

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
—Thomas Edison

I believe that all the remedies necessary to health are within the human body. ~ A.T. Stills

It is as if the whole body, functioning as a unit, is responding to a force similar to that moving the tides of the ocean. ~ Rollin Becker

Along in 1874, after years of independent thinking, there came to Dr. Still the concept of Osteopathy ~ Dr. Asa Willard in the Cranial Bowl

It is the stillness of the tide not the stormy waves that bounce upon the shore that is the potency, the power. ~ W.G. Sutherland

It is the stillness of the Tide, not the stormy waves that bounce upon the shore that is the potency, the power. ~ W.G Sutherland

Freedom is experienced in the infinite number of pauses.  ~Rollo May

Do not try to force anything within the cranial mechanism. ~A.T. Still

Everything in Osteopathy is true
—James Jealous

The fundamental principle advocated in cranial technique, viz: allowing the physiological function within to manifest its unerring potency, rather than the application of blind force from without. William G. Sutherland, D.O.

And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air. ~ William Wordsworth

Normal doesn’t simply mean a readjustment of the bones to normal position. ~ A.T. Stills