Why Naturopathic Medicine?
Naturopathy treats the individual person as a whole, not just the symptom. Naturopathic doctors are taught to go deeper than a superficial symptom to find the root cause of illness and disease. Small symptoms can often be indicators of a bigger, chronic disease process in the future.
For example, if a patient is diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), the allopathic medical model may dismiss the symptoms, or give the patient a prescription that simply suppresses the cramping, pain and diarrhea. As a Naturopathic Doctor, I will strive to find the root cause of why there is discomfort and diarrhea in the GI tract, and not simply suppress or mask the symptom with a pharmaceutical. By discovering the cause of the individual patient’s IBS, this can help the body come back into balance and ultimately prevent chronic disease processes from developing.
Naturopathy utilizes traditional and specialty lab work as diagnostic tools. Treatments options are vast with this type of care. Philosophically, Naturopathic Doctors are trained to use the most gentle, natural treatment modalities.
It is my goal to help patients reach their maximum potential in health and vitality.
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What can you treat with Telemedicine?
Telemedicine is quite an effective means for treating many conditions. It is convenient, there is no commute time, you get greater access to care outside of your area, and you have all your medical information readily available to you at home.
This is only brief list of conditions I can treat. Please contact me to see if I can help you on your path to healing.
Allergies
Weight Loss
UTI
Hormones
Environmental Toxins
Gut Health
Mental Health
Diabetes
Asthma
Acne
Skin conditions
Autoimmune
Naturopathic Training
Naturopathic Doctors (N.D.) are Primary Care Physicians trained in utilizing modern diagnostic skills combined with holistic treatment options. The required education includes a four-year Bachelor's degree with Pre-Med course work and then the completion of four years of graduate level medical didactic and clinical training at at accredited Naturopathic Medical School. These schools are modeled after traditional Medical Schools, where the first two years are focused on the basic sciences (anatomy, physiology, microbiology, biochemistry & pathology) and the last two are on clinical training. However, in addition to learning pharmacology, students learn natural treatments for disease processes and conditions, such as botanical medicine, clinical nutrition, intravenous nutrient therapy, environmental medicine, physical medicine, homeopathy, and acupuncture. As in conventional Medical Schools, Naturopathic Medical Students are required to sit for two sets of national boards during their four years of training.
In the state of Arizona, Naturopathic Physicians are able to write prescriptions, however the goal of this medicinal paradigm is to use modalities of treatment that are the least invasive and most in sync with nature before turning to the prescription pad.
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Therapeutic Order
Therapeutic Order™, identifies the natural order in which all therapies should be applied to provide the greatest benefit with the least potential for damage.
Remove Obstacles to Health. Health, the “natural state” of one’s body, is disturbed by obstacles that lead to disease. The first step in returning to health is to remove the entities that disturb health such as: poor diet, digestive disturbances, inappropriate and chronic stress levels, and individual disharmony. Naturopathic doctors construct a healthy regimen based on an individual’s “obstacles to health” to change and improve the terrain in which the disease developed. This allows additional therapeutics to have the most beneficial effects possible.
Stimulate the Self-Healing Mechanisms. NDs use therapies to stimulate and strengthen the body’s innate self-healing and curative abilities. These therapies include modalities such as clinical nutrition, botanical medicines, constitutional hydrotherapy, homeopathy, and acupuncture.
Strengthen Weakened Systems. Systems that need repair are addressed at this level of healing. Naturopathic doctors have an arsenal of therapeutics available to enhance specific tissues, organs or systems including: lifestyle interventions, dietary modifications, botanical medicine, orthomolecular therapy (use of substances that occur naturally in the body such as vitamins, amino acids, minerals), and homeopathy.
Correct Structural Integrity. Physical modalities such as spinal manipulation, massage therapy, and craniosacral therapy are used to improve and maintain skeletal and musculature integrity.
Use Natural Substances to Restore and Regenerate. Naturopathy’s primary objective is to restore health, not to treat pathology. However, when a specific pathology must be addressed, NDs employ safe, effective, natural substances that do not add toxicity or additionally burden the already distressed body.
Use Pharmacologic Substances to Halt Progressive Pathology. NDs are trained in pharmacology and how to use pharmaceutical drugs when necessary. If their state license permits, they can prescribe these agents themselves or if not, refer to a conventional medical colleague.
Use High Force, Invasive Modalities: Surgery, Radiation, Chemotherapy. When life, limb, or function must be preserved, NDs refer patients to providers (MDs, DOs, PAs, NPs, etc.) who are expertly trained in these arenas. At the same time, NDs use complementary or supportive therapies to decrease side effects and increase the effectiveness of these invasive procedures.