If you’ve come down with a cold in the last year, then you’ve experienced acute disease. It’s no fun and may put a damper on your weekend plans, but you know you can expect a relatively quick recovery.
However, if you’ve ever had a chronic disease, which lasts much longer, then you know how challenging a chronic disease can be to diagnose and treat. But how do you distinguish between an acute vs. a chronic disease? And how do you find the right healthcare professionals who know the difference and will treat you accordingly?
Acute Diseases
Acute diseases, such as the flu or pink eye, have a rapid onset but last for only a short time, usually less than a month. They may include symptoms such as the following:
- Cough
- Sneezing
- Fever
- Sore throat
- Diarrhea
- Headache
- Nausea
Acute diseases often have clear symptoms that primary care providers can use to diagnose and actively treat it through medication. In most cases, if there are no other underlying conditions, the patient makes a full recovery and returns to his or her previous condition. An acute disease soon becomes a faded memory from the past.
Chronic Diseases
Chronic diseases, however, are far more difficult to diagnose as they often come on more gradually, sometimes with warning signs. The symptoms often overlap and could indicate many different conditions, making such a disease difficult to diagnose.
Unlike acute diseases, chronic conditions often last months or years, or even a lifetime. There is no one cure for chronic diseases, and medication often addresses only certain symptoms.
To experience any kind of relief, chronic illnesses often require the patient to change their lifestyle and dietary habits significantly.
The most common examples of chronic illness include the following:
- Diabetes
- Heart disease
- Obesity
- Cancer
- Stroke
- Arthritis
The Problem with Traditional Healthcare
The problem with healthcare today is that it is often reactive and focused only on acute and immediate health problems – the “raging fire,” so to speak. But what if your disease isn’t acute but chronic?
Those struggling with more chronic conditions find it difficult to get properly diagnosed and receive the care they need to improve their symptoms and quality of life.
Most primary care providers give quick fixes through medication, without taking the time to truly understand your body as a whole and uncover root causes. And that’s how many chronic conditions that could otherwise have been alleviated remain just that: chronic.
Verve Goes Beyond Quick Fixes for Acute and Chronic Diseases
At Verve, however, we take your health seriously. Whether your disease is acute or chronic, we know how to help.
Instead of treating you as a collection of individual organs divided by medical specialties, we treat the whole body as one integrated system.
This means that we don’t just focus on managing symptoms. We identify and resolve underlying causes of poor health and disease using a functional medicine approach and precise biomarkers.
Instead of simply giving you a diagnosis and a treatment to go along with it, we base our healthcare interventions on four mechanisms that drive most acute and chronic diseases:
- Poor nutrition or absorption that slows repair and recovery.
- Sensitivities that go undetected.
- Constant stress that slows repair and makes you vulnerable.
- Chronic infections or toxicity causing inflammation.
Our team at Verve is devoted to getting to the root cause of your disease, so you can experience significant relief from your symptoms and live a long and healthful life.
Get Started on Transforming Your Health Today
What if there was a better way to receive primary care for both acute and chronic diseases, without rushed appointments and costly, invasive intervention that gets you nowhere?
With Verve, there is.
Not only do you get extended visits with a primary care provider so they can get to the root cause, but our team personally works with you to reverse your acute or chronic disease and reduce reliance on medications. All at an economical monthly membership that reduces cost and ensures you receive top-notch care.
Does this sound like what you’re looking for?
Book a discovery call with our staff to explore our different membership options for your unique needs and situation.
Our team at Verve knows the difference between acute vs. chronic diseases. We firmly believe in restoring primary care’s vital role in empowering health and economic revival to families and communities. And we do this so that you can take back control of your health.
Contact our team today to get started.