Naturopathic Pain Medicine

Naturopathic Pain Medicine incorporates the philosophy and modalities of naturopathic medicine for the treatment of a wide range of painful conditions. It is ideal for chronic musculoskeletal pain and sports injuries. It provides in a single session some combination of the following gentle and safe treatments:

Prolotherapy
Mesotherapy
Intravenous Micronutrient Therapy
Myo-Fascial Trigger Point Injections
Neural Therapy
Naturopathic Mobilization Therapy

Explanation of Treatments

Prolotherapy, also known as Stimulated Ligament Repair or Regenerative Injection Therapy (RIT) may be helpful for chronic musculo-skeletal pain, including:

partially torn tendons, ligaments and cartilage
arthritis
back pain
neck pain
fibromyalgia
whiplash injuries
carpal tunnel syndrome
TMJ
sciatica
injuries that don’t resolve

Prolotherapy is an extremely safe orthopedic procedure that stimulates the body's natural healing processes to strengthen ligaments and tendons weakened by traumatic or over-use injury. With a precise injection of a natural mild irritant solution and/or a growth factor stimulating solution in the area of the torn or stretched tissue, prolotherapy triggers a response that stimulates the body's natural healing mechanisms to lay down new collagen fibers in the weakened area.

Mesotherapy, also called "meso" has been in existence for over 50 years and is considered part of mainstream medicine in France with over 16,000 doctors in France alone using it and many more around the world. Mesotherapy is an integral treatment in the speciality of sports medicine in France as well as in other countries around the world.

In 1987 the French Academy of Medicine (their equivalent of the American College of Physicians) recognized mesotherapy as an inherent part of conventional medicine.
Mesotherapy is essentially a novel route of administration of medications and natural substances. It involves extremely superficial and near-painless injections of various cocktails containing conventional and/or natural medications. The hypothesis is that by infusing medications intra-cutaneously (between 1mm and 4mm deep, this to say VERY VERY superficially), the substances remain in the area and diffuse into the deeper tissue for up to a week. This allows one to immediately resume normal activity and discontinue anti-inflammatory medications taken by mouth. Mesotherapy can be very effective for acute injury and for those patients who do not wish to have prolotherapy

Intravenous Micronutrient Therapy, (IVMT), as the name implies, is the administration of high doses (or mega-doses) of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) intravenously. In some painful conditions, the levels of certain micronutrients, most notably magnesium, in cells can become depleted. One can take these substances by mouth, but the levels absorbed into the cells are limited by how much of the substance you are able to absorb through your gut. When given intravenously, the serum concentrations of these micronutrients reaches levels far beyond what is possible by taking them orally, and the subsequent high serum level of the substances "forces" greater quantities into your cells. IVMT has a history of use for a range of conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome and is currently being investigated as a treatment for fibromyalgia syndrome. IVMT can be used additionally to boost immunity and optimize performance. IVMT is painless and extremely safe.

Neural therapy involves the injection of a solution of local anesthetics, nutrients, botanical medicines and homeopathic medicines into acupuncture points, scars, and other tissues. Trauma can produce long-standing disturbances in nervous tissues and neural therapy may reverse these disturbances. Neural therapy may be helpful for a variety of chronic pain syndromes such as:

trigeminal neuralgia,
RSD,
phantom limb pain,
chronic abdominal or pelvic pain,
acute or chronic post-surgical pain and
chronic headaches.