What Naturopathic Services does Dr. Lewis offer?
Regenerative Joint Injections
Regenerative injection therapy (RIT) includes:
- Prolotherapy
- PRP (platelet rich plasma) therapy
- Neural therapy
- Trigger point injections
- Perineural injections
- Growth hormone
Other injection therapies Dr. Lewis uses for pain includes:
- Hyaluronic acid
- Cortisone
PRP and prolotherapy promote the healing of injured connective tissues, ie. ligaments, tendons, joint tissue and cartilage.
Neural and perineural therapy is like prolotherapy but used to address nerve pain, damage and dysfunction. These injections are another way to help improve people’s pain and function.
Hyaluronic acid helps lubricate and calm inflammation within a joint.
Cortisone injections help control inflammation within a joint. Thus, cortisone often helps with the pain.
*** Most injections are done under ULTRASOUND GUIDANCE
Naturopathic Services
Lifestyle & Nutrition Counselling
Your appointments with Dr. Lewis are between 20-60 minutes. This allows you enough time to go over the full picture of your health. Like anything, there is no one size fits all approach to diet, exercise or lifestyle habits. Dr. Lewis’ goal is to find the perfect recommendations for you and your health goals. She researches the latest science in these fields and applies that to every visit.
Herbal Medicine
Botanical/herbal medicine is the use of plants for medicine one of the best naturopathic services. These plant medicines come in many forms including teas, tinctures, topicals, capsules and culinary.
Dr. Lewis is heavily trained on the safe and effective use of 100’s of the most powerful herbs known to medicine. They are particularly powerful medicines because they keep the medicine in its whole form. This is unlike pharmaceuticals that will isolate and synthesize individual parts of the plant. Because of this, you get the synergistic effects of the different compounds within a plant.
Remember, plant medicines have been around for thousands of years and make for gentle yet effective medicines.
Ozone & Other Oxidative Therapies
One of the naturopathic services includes Ozone and Oxidative therapies aim to increase the body’s utility of oxygen. They do this through the introduction of ozone gas or hydrogen (H2O2) peroxide. Ozone and H2O2 promote healing by destroying pathogens, such as fungi, viruses, and bacteria, modulating the activity of the immune system, naturopathic services and improving metabolism.
These therapies are used for: autoimmune conditions, acute infections, chronic viral/bacterial/fungal infections, Lyme disease, skin conditions, musculoskeletal conditions, fibromyalgia, cardiovascular disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, cancer, IBS, some lung conditions, concussions and longevity.
Muscle & Intravenous Injections
Inter-muscle(IM) injections deliver nutrients into the muscle. They can help build up defient levels quickly by using much higher doses than oral therapy.
Intravenous therapy delivers nutrients into your vein. Owing to the form of delivery, you can use a wider variety and larger doses of nutrients and medicines.
These therapies can help enhance metabolic functions in the body. This can result in improved energy, metabolism, mood, immunity and tissue repair.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a branch of traditional Chinese medicine which is included in naturopathic services & care . It uses specific acupuncture points selected based on your health history and goals.
The main areas Dr. Lewis finds acupuncture is particularly useful is:
- Pain
- Stress management/burnout
- Hormonal concerns
- Digestive upset
- Mood disturbances like depression and anxiety
Advanced Lab Testing
This is important because often history taking and physical exams alone won’t give you the answers you need. With these extra tests, Dr. Lewis is better able to provide recommendations that are tartgetted and effective!
These tests include, but are not limited to:
Cardiometabolic Testing
- Blood glucose and insulin testing
- Cardiovascular risk factor markers: Lipid profiles, ApoB100, Lp(a), hsCRP, Homocysteine, Omega score, B12, etc
- PULS (protein unstable lesion signature) cardiac test
- Urinalysis
Digestive Testing
- Food allergy & sensitivity testing
- Celiac disease testing
- Comprehensive digestive stool analysis
- SIBO testing
Other Testing
- Adrenal stress hormone analysis
- Comprehensive thyroid, female or male hormone testing
- Heavy metal and environmental toxin testing
- Chronic infection testing