Naturopathic Medicine

Naturopathic Medicine is 21st medical healthcare that treats the whole person.  It is a whole body approach that supports the natural healing processes of the individual thru the removal of obstacles (stressors) that may be affecting an athlete’s mental, emotional, biochemical or physical health.  Naturopathic Medicine utilizes natural therapies that can support and enhance an athlete’s overall health and performance.

Naturopathic therapies can assist the athlete to reach training goals faster, recover from injury more rapidly, and help to maximize existing training programs. . An athlete’s muscles and organ tissues have higher nutritional requirements than a non-athlete. These increased nutritional requirements may be needed to repair damaged tissue, for muscles to grow larger and stronger, and to help increase fuel to the cells for energy.

Individualized nutritional programs can enhance performance, acupuncture can be used in pain management, low intensity laser can be implemented for pain management and to accelerate healing,  IV vitamin therapy of crucial vitamins and minerals can replenish depleted reserves from intense training or overtraining.  None of these substances are illegal or unethical and will not jeopardize an athlete or his/her team. Naturopathic Physicians utilize many therapies and modalities that can assist an athlete in injury prevention as well as helping to return to their  sport as quickly and safely as possible.