Dr. Rita Xavier

Integrative & Functional Medicine

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I'm a Family Physician with the Competency in Medical Acupuncture by the Portuguese Medical Association, and a Master Degree in Neural Therapy. I have an integrated view of health care, using conventional and non-conventional therapies to reach a more holistic and individualized approach to my patients. I believe that preventive medicine should be given priority, and so I emphasize lifestyle and nutritional changes and the use of regulatory therapies, to optimize body functions. I have also studied Traditional Tibetan Medicine and Energetic Therapies, integrating them in my approach. Most often I follow up patients with chronic health problems, with the aim of treating and improving their quality of life.

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Functional Medicine

  • Functional Medicine addresses the root causes of disease, using a system-oriented approach and engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership.


Acupuncture

  • Acupuncture is an ancient and effective technique, with proven results, used in Chinese Medicine. Its main objective is to restore a global balance, both in the body and the mind. It consists of inserting (extremely fine) needles into certain points of the body, so that it finds its way to healing. Thus, acupuncture can help with most health problems, and it also plays a key role in disease prevention. 
  • Electroacupuncture consists of the electrical stimulation of acupuncture needles. It is a non-painful method that aims to regulate the nervous system and, in this way, improve the functioning of organs and tissues that are out of balance. It is also used in musculoskeletal problems, improving pain, inflammation and edema.
  • There are more and more scientific studies that prove its effectiveness in the treatment of various pathologies and in its ability to modulate the nervous, endocrine, immune and limbic systems (related to emotions). 

Neural Therapy

  • It's a regulatory therapy that acts by modulating the nervous system, specially the autonomic nervous system, leading to the recovering of the organs' function and tissues of the body. It works by correcting the electric potential of the membrane cells and by neutralizing tissues irritations that affects the autonomic nervous systems and lead to pain and diseases.
  • It is mostly used in acute and chronic pain, inflammatory and auto-immune disorders, autonomic dysfunctions / imbalances, as a complementary cancer treatment, in chronic anxiety and depressive disorders.
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