Seven years ago I was mountain biking in Colorado, cruising downhill at 40 miles an hour. I rounded a bend and just as I cleared the corner a dog ran in front of my bike. I braked hard, flipped over the handle bars, and landed on my left shoulder, tearing the ligaments connecting my collar [...]
Prolotherapy is the injection of injured joints tissue, ligaments, and tendons with short-acting anesthetics (lidocaine/procaine) and regenerative solutions including dextrose, antioxidants, and/or amino acids that stimulate the body’s natural healing mechanisms, increasing local collagen production. Prolotherapy is a great treatment for acute injuries to tissues that are otherwise strong and healthy but are taking a [...]
Have you been told your knees or hips are "bone on bone"? Many of the patients that come in to our office have been told to "just wait" until their joint pain and degeneration have become severe enough to warrant surgery, and are getting by with a little help from cortisol injections and pain killers. [...]
Eating foods you are allergic to can drastically effect your your overall health and well-being. The chronic inflammation that begins to brew in your system following repetitive ingestion of foods that your body recognizes as harmful impacts your entire system, and can produce symptoms ranging from joint pain to headaches and migraines, skin rashes to [...]
An N.D. is a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, which is a field of medicine far broader than the practice of diagnosing health conditions and prescribing natural therapies for symptom management. In fact, Naturopathy is an entirely different model of health, based on the belief that our bodies can heal themselves — as long as we provide the [...]