Natural Treatments for Pain Management

All of us have experienced some sort of physical pain at one point in our lives. How we choose to deal with the pain varies from person to person, yet for most of us, despite what we do to help our pain, it inevitably returns. Naturopathic Physicians work with you and take a natural approach to treating and preventing future occurrences of pain. Naturopathic Physicians use therapies like clinical nutrition, acupuncture, and prolotherapy and run specialized laboratory tests like an IgG Food Intolerance Test or a Neurotransmitter test to treat and determine why your pain may be occurring.

Naturopathic Physicians are trained in treating and curing pain as result of a whole host of both acute and chronic conditions. Acute conditions like motor vehicle accidents, sprained ligaments and strained muscles and chronic conditions like Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, low back or knee pain respond favorably to naturopathic treatments. These naturopathic treatments have been shown to be superior when compared to the treatment of pain with standard medications, steroid injections, or surgery.

Arthritis and many chronic pain syndromes are a result of widespread uncontrolled inflammation in the body. Inflammation can occur due to a variety of reasons, however the largest percentage of inflammatory type reactions in the body are due to an inflammatory type diet. Arthritis and a whole host of other conditions stem from poor diet and nutritional imbalances. Naturopathic physicians can help you to find out what foods are causing an inflammatory reaction in your body and gain control of pain and other symptoms of inflammation. The most reliable approach to determining inflammatory dietary foods in the diet is by performing an IgG Food Intolerance Test. Naturopathic physicians recognize the individual variability in everyone and realize that everybody has different foods that cause inflammation so an IgG Food Intolerance Test shows what foods in particular are toxic for YOUR system.

Acupuncture dates back over 2500 years and is great for helping people deal with and cure both chronic and acute pain syndromes. Acupuncture is based on the concept of energetic balance. Energy is thought to run smoothly through channels or meridians in a healthy individual. When there is an energetic imbalance, illness often ensues. Treatments are based on assessing the flow and distribution of this vital energy within its pathways, and influencing health and sickness by stimulating certain areas along these meridians. Naturopathic Physicians are trained in acupuncture and commonly use this form of medicine in conjunction with other therapies to bring a person to wellness. Often patients feel great after the first treatment, but it usually takes 5 treatments to see the maximum benefit.

Prolotherapy is another wonderful treatment modality that Naturopathic Physicians can use to help treat both acute and chronic pain. Prolotherapy is a leading anti-aging treatment for painful joints characterized by diminished function and pain due to stretched or strained ligaments and tendons. Once stretched or weakened, ligaments are not able to return to there original strength or length without outside assistance. Nutritive injections strengthen ligament and tendon attachments in the ankle, knee, hip, shoulders and even along the spine. The injections stimulate the growth of new collagen and ligament fibers resulting in stronger ligaments, more stable or tighter joints, improved joint function and reduction in pain. Prolotherapy solutions do not contain cortisone, which may end up weakening the strength of the joint. For pain in your feet, ankles, knees, hips, back, shoulders, or hands, Prolotherapy is the best anti-aging treatment for your joints.

To schedule a FREE 15 minute consultation to have a Naturopathic Physician help you with your pain, contact Dr. Matthew Cavaiola at East Valley Naturopathic Doctors at (480) 985-0000.