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Functional Medicine
Why Functional Medicine?Wheat Ridge functional medicine practitioner Dr. Mark VanOtterloo delivers a short summary on functional medicine: genes and the environment. He explains why functional medicine integrates the wisdom found in traditional medical with modern...
Acupuncture For Urinary Incontinence Treatment: Why It Works
In my clinical acupuncture practice, I’ve had several clients come to me looking for a natural urinary incontinence treatment. It is often a problem on its own. Additionally, it is tied to other conditions, such as MS, Parkinson’s, diabetes, bladder infections or...
Acupuncture for Trigeminal Neuralgia
Looking for More Relief for Your Trigeminal Neuralgia? Facial nerve pain (Trigeminal Neuralgia) sufferers often additional pain relief when they don’t like the side effects of their pain medication. Also, the benefits from medication can wear off requiring new...
Acupuncture For Painful Periods
Suffer from Painful Periods? It’s NOT Normal. Here’s What You Should Know to Help. This article relates to acupuncture pain relief for primary dysmenorrhea, acupuncture for PMS, and acupuncture for period cramps. In the medical community, painful periods...
Bone Broth (Video)
Watch this summary video on bone broth for your digestive health. What is bone broth? Bone broth is the result of cooking animal bones slowly in a mixture of spices, vinegar, and salt. For example, during the slow cooking process, minerals and proteins are released...
Dietary Inflammation (Video)
This video provides the basic knowledge of common dietary sources of inflammation. Could the food you are eating be causing inflammation and pain? The hidden sources of dietary inflammation For those of you not familiar with the inflammatory...
Why B12 Injections?
Methylcobalamin B12 injection Vitamin B12 is a critical nutrient for our health. For example, it is the nutrient that works in conjunction with folate to synthesize DNA and red blood cells along with the myelin sheath around nerve cells. As a result, deficiency will...
Homeopathic Injections
Heal from traumatic injuries, chronic pain, and nerve related diseases like migraines or trigeminal neuralgia. Why inject homeopathic liquids? In my previous article we generally reviewed what homeopathic injection therapy is.[1] This article focuses on use of liquids...
Dry Needling Clarity
Do You Do Dry Needling? That is a common question I am asked from patients and practitioners alike. As a result, there seems to be some confusion about the differences between dry needling and acupuncture. Addressing the issues between dry needling and acupuncture...
Acupuncture Over Opioids
The use of opioids first for chronic pain There is an emerging problem that encompasses all medicine. For years doctors were taught that opioid medication was not addictive when patients were in chronic pain. Under these normal prescription guidelines we have seen...