Additional Services at Innovative Medicine
A Broader Range of Care Under One Roof
At Innovative Medicine, our core service pages cover the conditions we see most often — weight loss, hormone health, testosterone, and thyroid function. But our team’s clinical reach goes further. From chronic pain and mental health support to functional medicine for complex, hard-to-treat conditions, we offer a wide range of services designed to address the full picture of your health.
Many of our patients come to us because they’ve been seen elsewhere without resolution. They’ve been told their labs are normal. They’ve tried standard treatments. They’re still struggling. Our approach — thorough evaluation, root-cause thinking, and coordinated care across disciplines — often finds what previous care missed.
Pain Management
Chronic pain is one of the most debilitating and underserved health challenges adults face. It affects every dimension of daily life — sleep, mood, mobility, work, and relationships — and it rarely has a single, simple cause.
At Innovative Medicine, we approach pain management by looking at the full picture. Physical injury and structural issues are part of the story, but hormonal imbalances, systemic inflammation, nutritional deficiencies, thyroid dysfunction, and mental health all contribute to how pain is experienced and how well the body recovers. Addressing these factors alongside conventional pain treatment often produces results that conventional treatment alone cannot.
Types of Pain We Evaluate and Treat
Chronic musculoskeletal pain — persistent pain in muscles, joints, and soft tissue that doesn’t resolve with standard care
- Nerve-related pain — burning, tingling, or shooting pain that may indicate nerve involvement
- Inflammation-driven pain — chronic inflammation from metabolic, hormonal, or dietary factors
- Pain associated with hormonal changes — joint pain, muscle aches, and widespread discomfort that emerges during perimenopause, menopause, or andropause
- Pain associated with fibromyalgia — widespread musculoskeletal pain with associated fatigue, sleep problems, and cognitive symptoms
If you’ve been managing pain without adequate relief, a functional evaluation may reveal contributing factors that haven’t been addressed in your previous care.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
A: Yes. Estrogen plays a significant role in pain modulation, and declining estrogen during perimenopause and menopause is associated with increased sensitivity to pain, joint discomfort, and muscle aches. Thyroid dysfunction also contributes to musculoskeletal pain. Addressing these hormonal factors can meaningfully reduce pain severity.
A: We start with a thorough health history and discussion of your pain — its location, character, duration, and what makes it better or worse. We then evaluate relevant lab markers including hormones, inflammatory indicators, thyroid function, and nutritional status. Your treatment plan is developed based on the full clinical picture.
A: Medication management is part of pain treatment when clinically appropriate. We also address the underlying factors contributing to pain — which often reduces the need for long-term medication reliance.
ADHD & Mental Health
Mental and emotional health are not separate from physical health — they are deeply intertwined with it. Hormonal imbalances, thyroid dysfunction, sleep disorders, and chronic inflammation all affect mood, motivation, concentration, and emotional regulation. At Innovative Medicine, our mental health team works alongside our medical providers so that both dimensions of your wellness are addressed together.
Our in-house team includes a licensed psychologist and a licensed therapist (LMHC), providing access to coordinated behavioral and mental health care within the same practice.
Adult ADHD Evaluation & Treatment
ADHD Is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. the H is for hyperactivity that most adults don’t have. So for them we drop the H And call it ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder.
ADHD is significantly underdiagnosed in adults — particularly in people who developed coping strategies in childhood that masked symptoms for years. The result is often a long history of struggling with focus, organization, follow-through, and impulsivity without understanding why.
Adult ADHD looks different from childhood ADHD. It often presents as chronic disorganization, difficulty sustaining attention on tasks that require mental effort, emotional dysregulation, impulsive decision-making, and a persistent sense of underperforming relative to potential. These symptoms significantly affect career performance, relationships, and overall quality of life.
Evaluation at Innovative Medicine distinguishes ADHD from other conditions that produce similar symptoms — anxiety, depression, thyroid dysfunction, and sleep disorders can all impair attention and motivation in ways that overlap with ADHD. Getting the diagnosis right is the foundation of getting the treatment right.
Anxiety, Depression & Mood Support
Our therapist and psychologist provide individual counseling for adults dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, and life transitions. Therapy is available as a standalone service or in coordination with medical treatment for patients whose mental health is connected to physical health conditions.
We recognize that many patients experiencing depression or anxiety are also dealing with underlying hormonal imbalances, thyroid dysfunction, or chronic pain — and that treating the physical contributors often produces meaningful improvement in mental health outcomes. Coordinated care between our medical and behavioral health team is one of Innovative Medicine’s most important strengths.
People with ADD are often anxious. The medications we use for ADD, At the right dose almost always improve anxiety as well.
ADD often causes anxiety. Treatment of ADD or ADHD calms the related anxiety.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
A: This is one of the most common questions we hear — and it's a good one, because anxiety, depression, and ADHD all produce symptoms that look similar on the surface. A thorough evaluation that looks at your full history, symptom patterns, and rules out medical contributors is the only reliable way to differentiate them. We don't diagnose based on a single questionnaire.
A: No referral is required. You can contact us directly to inquire about scheduling with our behavioral health team. We'll discuss what you're looking for and determine the best fit within our practice.
A: Yes — and for many patients, this coordination is exactly what was missing from previous care. Our medical and behavioral health providers communicate directly and can develop integrated treatment plans that address both dimensions of your health simultaneously.
A: Yes. Counseling sessions are confidential in accordance with state and federal privacy laws. Information is only shared within the care team with your explicit consent, or as required by law.
Functional Medicine
Functional medicine is a root-cause approach to health that looks at how all of the body’s systems interact — rather than evaluating and treating each symptom or organ system in isolation. It’s particularly effective for patients with complex, chronic conditions that haven’t responded fully to conventional care.
The functional medicine evaluation process is thorough and systematic. We look at hormonal balance, thyroid and metabolic function, nutritional status, gut health, sleep patterns, stress physiology, and immune function to identify the underlying imbalances that are driving symptoms. Treatment is then directed at those root causes rather than at symptoms alone.
Chronic Fatigue
Persistent, debilitating fatigue that doesn’t improve with rest and significantly impairs daily functioning is one of the most common presentations we see in functional medicine patients. Conventional evaluation often returns normal results — leaving patients without answers or treatment.
The functional medicine approach to chronic fatigue evaluates thyroid function, adrenal health, hormonal balance, sleep quality, mitochondrial function, inflammatory markers, and nutritional status. In many cases, a combination of subclinical findings — each individually within ‘normal’ range — creates a physiological environment that produces significant fatigue. Addressing these factors in combination often produces improvement where single-system treatment has not.
- Common contributors we evaluate: thyroid dysfunction (including subclinical hypothyroidism), hormonal decline, adrenal dysregulation, sleep disorders, systemic inflammation, B12 and iron deficiency, and blood sugar instability.
Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and often cognitive difficulties (‘fibro fog’). It is frequently dismissed or undertreated because standard diagnostic testing often returns normal results, and the mechanism of the condition is not fully understood.
From a functional medicine perspective, fibromyalgia is evaluated as a multisystem condition with hormonal, inflammatory, neurological, and lifestyle contributors. We assess thyroid and hormonal status, sleep architecture, inflammatory markers, and nutritional deficiencies that may contribute to pain amplification. Patients who have been told there is nothing wrong — or who have been managed with medication alone without meaningful improvement — often benefit from this broader evaluation.
- Common contributors we evaluate: hypothyroidism, low estrogen or testosterone, sleep disorders (particularly sleep apnea), systemic inflammation, vitamin D and magnesium deficiency, and gut-related inflammation.
Conditions & Therapies
Innovative Medicine also treats a broad spectrum of additional conditions and offers a variety of therapeutic modalities beyond those covered on this page. To learn more about what we can help with, call us at (765) 471-1100 or use our Contact page — we’re happy to answer questions about whether our practice is the right fit for your needs.
IV Therapy
Intravenous (IV) nutrient therapy delivers vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients directly into the bloodstream, bypassing the digestive system for faster and more complete absorption. IV therapy is used to support energy, immune function, hydration, recovery, and overall wellness.
Our IV therapist Susan works directly with patients to administer treatments in a calm, comfortable setting. IV therapy can be used as a standalone wellness support or as a complement to other treatments at Innovative Medicine.
Who We Serve
We provide these services to adults in Lafayette, West Lafayette, and throughout the Greater Tippecanoe County area. If you’ve been managing a complex condition without full resolution — or if you’re dealing with symptoms that conventional care hasn’t fully explained — we encourage you to reach out. A functional evaluation often reveals what other approaches have missed.