Discover Your Individual Path to Wellness
Chestnut Ridge Wellness Medicine, CRWM, is a private integrative allopathic medical practice where Lifestyle balance and self-connection are at the heart of healing and wholeness. Here, wellness is viewed as more than the absence of disease—it is the cultivation of harmony between mind, body, and Spirit. Through a holistic and integrative approach, care is designed to uncover root causes, restore resilience, and support lasting vitality. Blending thoughtful Western medical insight with lifestyle medicine, movement, breath, and restorative practices, each patient is guided toward deeper awareness and sustainable health. This is a space where science and self-reflection meet, and where true healing begins with reconnection.
Nicole Falanga, MD
This comprehensive 90-minute visit is designed to understand you as a whole person, not simply a list of symptoms. Together, we thoughtfully explore your current medical concerns within the context of your life story, health history, and personal biography—recognizing how lived experience can shape present health patterns. We will review lifestyle rhythms, daily habits, movement practices, sleep quality, stress levels, and nutrition to uncover meaningful connections and root contributors.
The 60-minute Integrative Wellness Visit is designed to thoughtfully build upon your initial 90-minute Foundational Wellness Visit. Together, we revisit what was uncovered, assess how you have been feeling, and evaluate what is improving, what feels challenging, and what may need refinement. This visit provides space to explore new insights, clarify emerging patterns, and deepen our understanding of your lifestyle, habits, stress response, movement, sleep, and nutrition.
We carefully review how recommended therapies—whether lifestyle adjustments, breath work, yoga practices, nutritional strategies, homeopathic remedies, supplements, or conventional treatments—are working for you. Adjustments are made with intention, guided by both your lived experience and evidence-based medical insight.
Typically scheduled no sooner than four weeks after your initial visit, this follow-up allows enough time to observe meaningful shifts while maintaining steady momentum in your healing process. The goal is continued integration, personalization, and steady progress toward balanced, sustainable wellness.
This 30-minute visit is designed for patients experiencing acute illness or new symptoms who need timely, thoughtful care. Whether you are feeling run down, fighting an infection, or navigating sudden changes in your health, this appointment provides focused medical evaluation within a holistic wellness framework.
We will assess your current symptoms while also considering underlying rhythms—rest, stress, nutrition, immune resilience, and the balance between periods of wellness and depletion. Support may include guidance on targeted nutrition, hydration, therapeutic foods, vitamins, amino acids, herbal or homeopathic remedies, and restorative practices to help your body recover efficiently and safely.
As a Western-trained physician, I will also determine when conventional diagnostics, medications, or evidence-based therapies are appropriate and necessary. Prescriptions or further testing are provided responsibly when warranted. The goal is to treat the acute concern effectively while continuing to support your overall vitality and long-term wellness.
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