Courtesy of Innovative Health Partners
The new year brings just as many new gym memberships as it does questions. Does this workout really work? Am I drinking enough water? Fads happen (hello, keto diet) and celebrities use their power to sell products they say they “live by.” It’s a lot for a person to navigate.
Blending chiropractic, nutrition, and Chinese medicine, Dr. Alethea Eller and Dr. Jason Wibbenmeyer of Innovative Health Partners are debuting a model to work with people in a new way to help answer these questions.
Debuting in 2019, Wellness Academy, an interactive online webinar series (recorded for later viewing, too) aims to help educate people about their health. Viewing costs $199 per topic and each topic consists of three courses. At the end of the modules, each person participating has the opportunity to engage with a doctor for a consultation, in person or online, with an aim to provide clarity and extra information for a viewer.
“Wellness Academy is a part of our new tier model system, and it is basically one way for patients and our community to access us," Dr. Wibbenmeyer says. "So we are creating a different access point for people to work with us. And one of them—the advanced one—is more one-on-one care."
The Wellness Academy focuses primarily on education and taking classes about subjects that the two doctors commonly see. They say that most of their patients are stuck in cycles of symptom management, through medication or through natural agents.
The four main classes are about restoring four of the main health systems in the body: your gut, your hormones, your brain, and your immune system.
The classes are "just a matter of explaining to our patients why we’re doing what we’re doing and having them fully understand what we’re doing and what their treatment looks like,” Dr. Wibbenmeyer says.
The classes are structured so that a person taking the course will have a greater understanding of where his or her body could be having the issue, or where the imbalance is happening. This way they achieve healing, rather than treating a sometime symptom.
Each class is designed to: “be clearly from a physician perspective, with real patient interaction, and clinical-like labs. We’re showing people what this would really look like when you take a person with these symptoms and you run labs. We’re really wanting to take some of the mystery and guesswork out of symptom treating.”
“These common issues make sense when you take the time to learn what’s out of balance in the body and how to restore that,” Dr. Eller says.
From here, both Dr. Eller and Dr. Wibbenmeyer see the Wellness Academy growing into more advanced courses and new topics.
With Dr. Google at our beck and call to validate any self-diagnosis, Dr. Wibbenmeyer notes: “It’s vital now more than ever to have classes at the fingertips of our consumers… We’ve formatted in a way so it’s not confusing [to the viewer] and they can pull together all the information they get elsewhere and make sense of it."
