Founded by clinicians and researchers who've spent their careers on the other side of recovery: in hospital rooms, ICUs, rehab clinics, and the homes where recovery gaps show up.
Patients survived the hardest part, left weaker, went home without a plan. We built FunctionalHealth to fill that gap.
years at the bedside
clinical faculty
Evidence-based recovery programs, nutrition guidance, and functional rehabilitation resources built by physicians who saw firsthand what patients needed after leaving the hospital.
Our physicians and clinical scientists across ICU, PM&R, and nutrition, in their own words.
MD, MPH, MBA · Medical Director of Critical Care Services and Professor of Medicine
University of California, Irvine
Recovery doesn't end when a patient leaves the ICU. The most important window for rebuilding muscle, restoring energy, and getting back to independence happens after discharge. We built FunctionalHealth to fill a gap medicine has ignored.View profile
MD · Chairman, Pulmonary Medicine, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center; Co-Director ICU, Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center.
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center; Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center
We invest enormous resources into helping athletes recover, yet our patients fighting harder battles are often sent home with nothing. Evidence-based nutrition should be standard in recovery medicine, not an afterthought.View profile
MD · NeuroIntensivist. Chair, Department of Medicine
Long Beach Medical Center
Most patients underestimate how long recovery takes. The weakness, the brain fog, the exhaustion lasts far longer than anyone expects. Recovery isn't just leaving the hospital. It demands the same focus we give to the sickest patients in the ICU, continued long after discharge.View profile
DO · Board-certified physiatrist. Medical Director, MemorialCare Rehabilitation Institute
MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center
What we can deliver in those two or three weeks patients are in our rehab units is constrained by what supply the hospital orders. We measure functional independence at admission and discharge; we rarely look at the metabolic side of what is keeping that number low. If we can use a low-risk, well-studied intervention like creatine to make the same therapy hours more productive, that is a conversation worth having at the institutional level.View profile
DO · PM&R Chief Resident
UC Irvine School of Medicine
The patients I treat the most are older adults recovering from a stroke, a fall, or a major orthopedic surgery. The literature on muscle protein synthesis in this group is clear: their bodies need more help, not less, to rebuild what was lost. Creatine has decades of safety and efficacy data in older adults, and the gap between what the research shows and what reaches our rehab patients is something I want to help close.View profile
PharmD, FCSHP · Assistant Dean for Experiential Education and Associate Professor
Western University of Health Sciences, College of Pharmacy
Most people come home from the hospital with a bag of new medicines and no clear way to keep them straight. By the next visit, half of what they were told is already gone. One simple, up-to-date medication list, brought to every appointment, prevents more problems than most people realize. That is recovery work too.View profile
BS · Co-Founder & CEO of FunctionalHealth. Medical Student
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The future of medicine isn't only treating illness; it's helping the patient get back to themselves and beyond. By applying the same rigorous science used in elite athletics to clinical recovery, we're giving patients their lives back.View profile
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