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Therapeutic Augmentation

Meaning

Therapeutic augmentation is the clinical strategy of utilizing one or more complementary interventions, often non-pharmacological, to significantly enhance or potentiate the desired physiological or functional effect of a primary therapeutic modality. This approach is designed to achieve a synergistic outcome, where the combined effect is greater than the sum of the individual components, maximizing the clinical benefit for the patient. Augmentation is a key tactic in personalized medicine to optimize treatment efficacy and reduce reliance on higher doses of single agents.