Treats the Whole Person

Personalized Care That Looks Beyond Symptoms 

Holistic Medicine is a whole-person approach to healthcare that considers your body, mind, lifestyle, and environment—not just your symptoms. Rather than focusing on treating illness alone, Dr. Hoch works to identify and address the underlying causes of your health concerns while helping you build lasting wellness.

With more than 30 years of experience in integrative and holistic medicine, Dr. Hoch combines evidence-based conventional medicine with proven natural therapies to create personalized treatment plans tailored to your unique needs.

What to Expect

Your care begins with a comprehensive evaluation that may include:

• Your current health concerns and medical history
• Nutrition, exercise, sleep, and daily habits
• Family health history
• Emotional and mental wellbeing
• Lifestyle and environmental factors
• Current medications, supplements, and allergies
• Previous treatments and their effectiveness

When appropriate, advanced testing may also be recommended to provide a deeper understanding of your health.

Our Goal

Together, we'll develop a personalized plan designed to help you:

• Improve energy and vitality
• Support healthy aging
• Strengthen bone health
• Reduce inflammation
• Optimize nutrition
• Prevent future illness
• Improve overall wellbeing

Every recommendation is based on your individual goals and health needs—not a one-size-fits-all approach.

Our Philosophy

We believe the best healthcare is built on partnership. By understanding the whole person and addressing health concerns at their source, we help you create sustainable improvements that support your health for years to come.

Learning life skills for a healthy lifestyle through diet, exercise, stress management, healthy sleep, creating and living in healthy environments, understanding emotions, mental processes, social relationships and spiritual awareness. Risk factor assessment for common chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Working with you to develop customized therapeutic plans utilizing lifestyle and other interventions to improve and maintain health and prevent disease.

Diet, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs, and other nutritional supplements are used to optimize cellular metabolic functioning and organ function.  These therapies are integrated into your care plan after your health concerns are assessed.  Recommendations are based on scientific studies and extensive clinical experience with thousands of patients in several multi-disciplinary clinical settings. Conditions treated nutritionally: High cholesterol, diabetes / metabolic syndrome, congestive heart failure, Irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, food allergies, hypoglycemia, osteoporosis, adrenal exhaustion and chronic fatigue, Immune support for acute infections.

Nutritional and other support used to optimize liver, intestinal, kidney and cellular functioning compromised by exposure to heavy metals (lead, mercury), solvents, and other chemicals.

Use of guided imaging, meditation, stress reduction, counseling, breathing exercises and Chinese Qi gong (Chi kung) to enhance health, manage stress and treat various health conditions. Energetic Approaches to Healing: Many of the world’s healing traditions see the body/mind/spirit as an energy system that extends beyond the biochemistry and physical structure of the body. Energetic approaches to movement, breathing, and meditation exercises from Chinese Qi gong and other traditions are utilized within the framework of your own values and life experience to optimize health and treat medical problems.

Gentle, Hands-On Care That Helps Restore Balance and Improve Movement 

Osteopathic Medicine is a hands-on approach that recognizes the close connection between your body's structure and its ability to function properly. When the body's muscles, joints, connective tissues, and nervous system are in balance, it can move more efficiently, heal more effectively, and function at its best.

Dr. Hoch uses gentle osteopathic techniques to identify and address structural imbalances that may contribute to pain, restricted movement, or chronic health concerns. Rather than simply masking symptoms, treatment is designed to support your body's natural ability to restore balance and promote lasting wellness.

Conditions We Commonly Treat

Osteopathic treatment may help with:

• Back and neck pain
• Sciatica
• Joint pain and arthritis
• TMJ disorders
• Tension and migraine headaches
• Plantar fasciitis
• Tendon and ligament injuries
• Sports injuries and repetitive strain
• Recovery after falls, fractures, or motor vehicle accidents
• Postural and mobility concerns

Depending on your individual needs, osteopathic care may also support certain digestive concerns, jaw alignment issues, and other conditions where structural balance plays a role.

Our Approach

Every treatment begins with a comprehensive assessment to understand how your body moves and functions as a whole. Using gentle, personalized techniques, Dr. Hoch works with your body's natural healing mechanisms to:

• Improve mobility and flexibility
• Relieve pain and muscle tension
• Restore structural balance
• Support healthy posture and movement
• Promote long-term function and wellbeing

Because treatment addresses the underlying cause whenever possible, many patients experience lasting improvements rather than temporary relief.

Specialized Techniques

Depending on your condition, treatment may include one or more osteopathic techniques, such as:

• Cranial Osteopathy
• Myofascial Release
• Neurofascial Release
• Visceral Osteopathy
• Joint and Soft Tissue Mobilization

Recommendations are always tailored to your individual needs and comfort level.

Education for Long-Term Health

An important part of Dr. Hoch's approach is helping you maintain your progress between visits. You may receive personalized guidance on:

• Posture and body mechanics
• Workplace ergonomics
• Stretching and strengthening exercises
• Movement habits
• Nutrition and lifestyle strategies

The goal is to give you practical tools that support long-term health and reduce the need for ongoing treatment whenever possible.