The Corpus Christi Better Health Institute is where your health and happiness are our foremost concern. Besides being a top notch Family Practice medical office taking care of the medical needs of the whole family, we have developed some wonderful programs of prevention.
Like all other Family Physicians, we provide well planned, personalized well and preventive care for the whole family. This includes immunizations, routine exams and specialized exams according to needs, gender, age and risk factors. Target exams for things like sports, camp, scouts are tailored to the specific needs.
We also take care of all the problems that you would expect from your family physician. We see everybody from thirty days of life right on through the "golden years" and beyond. Families are our specialty. From ingrown toenails to scalp seborrhea, from routine female needs like pap tests and birth control to female infections to children's illnesses, from asthma and allergies to diabetes and blood pressure control, we cover it all. Our office provides everything from splints and biopsies to pulmonary function, cardiac holter monitor, allergy and general laboratory testing.
Family physicians are also especially skilled in referrals. Family physicians are the only physicians that receive training specifically to best take advantage of the knowledge, skills and expertise of our more specialized colleagues. We recognize that there are times a particular problem needs the extended expertise of a specialist. Family physicians come to know their referral sources in the community and how to communicate the needs of their patients and facilitate their visit. Thus, the greatest value is obtained from the encounter for both the patient and the physician.
What makes the Corpus Christi Better Health Institute different from any other family practice office is the preventive programs developed over the past twenty years. This aspect of the institute has been founded on the principle that brain chemistry and the body chemistry are intricately interrelated. Here we seek to allow everybody to tailor their life to their needs and desires without the constant distractive drives that keep us doing things we know harm us like smoking, overeating the wrong foods, etc. The institute, is dedicated to bringing people to the knowledge that they can take control of their lives and the destructive habits that continually nag at them. The Smoke Free Program, has helped countless patients who felt powerless to nicotine addiction to put cigarettes down once and for all and forget about them! The Nutritional Program which has been employed by thousands across the country is a dietary lifestyle change that not only allows you to take off those unwanted pounds without continually obsessing about food but it also improves cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, LDL and diabetic control with less or no medicine.
The Smoke Free Program, developed over the past ten years is the result of thirty years of personal and clinical experience. It incorporates a two-fold pharmacological approach combined with personalized affirming principles employed with a visualization practice that converts the individual who has managed to quit nicotine to one who is a healthily smoke free. A publication created out of this experience is available to all enrollees. Non Smoker Forever was created as a result of the "patch" being sold "over the counter." After that time it was notice that more and more of patients buying the "patch" in the drug store were using them for a little while and then smoking again. The patches were just not being used properly. Folks were just not receiving the guidance needed to make that crucial shift. Non Smoker Forever fills that gap. Step by step, it clarifies the proper use of "the patch." It suggests other possible medications their physician can prescribe that may also be helpful. Most importantly, it provides the mental exercises to enable an individual to go from a non-smoking smoker who is still mentally addicted to a smoke free, healthier individual. The Nagging Back Program helps to focus on the psychological and emotional aspects of back pain along with its medical, physical and orthopedic aspects.