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Springfield Clinic offers the SideBy Care Program, an evidence-based virtual program that provides behavioral and nutrition care alongside your gastroenterology care to help you:

• Manage digestive symptoms

• Improve nutrition and eating patterns

• Build practical tools for everyday challenges

• Improve quality of life

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Conditions We Treat

• IBS

• Crohn's disease

• Ulcerative colitis

• Functional dyspepsia

• Chronic constipation

• Chronic diarrhea

• Other disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBIs)

Digestive conditions can affect more than physical symptoms. Nutrition concerns, stress, uncertainty and everyday challenges can also affect how you feel and your quality of life.

The SideBy Care Program works alongside your GI treatment plan to provide behavioral and nutrition treatment between visits. Whether you're newly diagnosed, experiencing a flare, in remission or managing ongoing symptoms, care is personalized to your diagnosis, symptoms and goals.

Your Care Team

Depending on your insurance benefits, your SideBy Care team may include a Mind-Gut Specialist and Registered Dietitian, along with a Care Advocate.

• Registered Dietitian*
  Receive personalized nutrition guidance based on your symptoms and goals, including strategies for food triggers, symptom flares, treatment changes, meal planning, hydration and expanding food choices.

• Mind-Gut Specialist
  Learn evidence-based mind-gut techniques to help manage symptoms, recognize connections between thoughts, stress, behaviors and symptoms, and build practical strategies for everyday challenges.

• Care Advocate
  Get help navigating the program, answering questions and coordinating your care.

• Your Gastroenterology Provider
  Your Springfield Clinic GI provider remains in charge of your medical treatment and medications and stays informed throughout the program.

*Services available may vary based on insurance benefits.

1. Understand Your Symptoms
Identify factors that may affect your symptoms and quality of life.

2. Build Your Care Plan
Receive a plan tailored to your diagnosis, symptoms, lifestyle and goals.

3. Meet Virtually With Your Care Team
Meet regularly with your SideBy Care team through video visits. Each session builds on the last while remaining flexible to your individual needs.

4. Track Your Progress
Your team will monitor your progress and adjust treatment as your needs change. Continued optimization sessions may be available to help you maintain progress and navigate flares, remission or treatment changes.

Why This Approach Works

Research shows that behavioral and nutrition interventions can help people manage digestive symptoms, improve quality of life and address the day-to-day challenges of living with digestive conditions.

The SideBy Care Program brings these evidence-based approaches together through personalized virtual care that works alongside your GI provider's treatment plan.

Learn more about IBD and disorders of gut-brain interaction (including IBS) research

Your gut and brain constantly communicate through nerves, hormones and the immune system. This two-way connection can influence digestive symptoms and helps explain how factors such as nutrition, stress, sleep and daily habits can affect digestive health and quality of life.

Ready to Learn More?

Talk with your Springfield Clinic GI provider about the SideBy Care Program, or schedule a free 15-minute call with a Care Advocate to learn more.

Call or text SideBy Care: 217.805.8600

Email: [email protected]