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The longest existing Naturopathic Clinic in Vancouver

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Treatment Therapies

Acupuncture

Ancient Technique for Modern Ailments

What is acupuncture?

Originating in China about three thousand years ago, this ancient therapy involves inserting very thin sterilized needles into special points on the body that are determined based on your individual health concerns. The stimulation of these points helps to rebalance the flow of “qi” (your internal energy). By rebalancing qi, you can reduce pain and help to regulate organ systems that are not functioning optimally.

How does it work?

Our conventional medical model explains acupuncture’s efficacy as being a result of the needles interrupting neural pathways and encouraging local circulation. This leads to a reduction in pain and inflammation in the body.

What conditions does it treat?

Acupuncture is most commonly known for improving joint and muscular pain and injuries. However, it is also used to treat chronic conditions ranging from digestive disorders to insomnia to menstrual irregularities.

What can I expect during a treatment?

Most people expect needles to be quite painful. With acupuncture, however, the needles are extremely thin. You may feel a slight pinch upon insertion of the needles or nothing at all. Once the needles have been put in place, most people experience a sense of relaxation, and many actually fall asleep during the treatment. After treatment, it is not uncommon for patients to feel a shift in their sense of being. This is often experienced as either a “calm” or an increase in energy.

How often should I come?

Results from acupuncture are usually experienced after 4-10 treatments. Long-term improvements from more chronic conditions generally require more frequent visits. Depending upon the type and severity of the condition, initial treatments are once to twice a week. Based on the patient’s requirements, these may be decreased to a lower frequency.

Eventually, maintenance treatments can be carried out every few weeks to every few months. Patients may also request acupuncture for relaxation and stress reduction.

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Allergy Therapies

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Amino Acid Therapy

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Blood Analysis

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Botanical Medicine

Botanical Medicine is the use of plants for healing. This modality dates back to the beginnings of civilization and is the foundation of modern pharmacology. Plant substances from around the world are used for healing effects and nutritional value.

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Bowen Therapy

Bowen Therapy provides an affordable, quick, effective resolution to chronic pain. Tom Bowen developed what is now called “The Bowen Technique” or Bowen Therapy in Geelong, Australia. Bowen is a type of vibrational healing that balances the Autonomic Nervous System ( one responsible for stress and relaxation) using a series of simple, gentle moves across muscle and connective tissue. The technique is so gentle it can be used on anyone from infants to the elderly. Sessions usually last about an hour.

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Chelation Therapy

Chelation Therapy is a series of intravenous injections aimed at removing toxic heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, copper and aluminum. The chelating agents bind to these toxins and flush them out of your system through your urine.

Chelation Therapy can also benefit those with:

  • Heart disease
  • Hight Blood Pressure
  • Diabetes
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Chronic Fatigue Management

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Chronic Pain Management

Everybody at one time or another has suffered from chronic pain; whether it be sports realted, a motor vehicle accident, chronic headaches, or some underlying disease.
The Vancouver Naturopathic Clinic uses a variety of effective pain modalities to help this problem. These include Neural Therapy, Prolotherapy, Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy, Whole Body Hyperthermia, Advanced Physical Therapy and Intravenous Therapy.
All of these methods are highly beneficial and are part of a whole body approach that might also include any of the other therapeutic services available at our clinic. The goal is to provide a long lasting pain solutions.

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Clinical Nutrition

This examines the relationship between diet and health. Special diets may be recommended and treatment may include nutritional supplements such as vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other nutraceuticals.

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Counseling/Lifestyle Management

Core to good medical practice and results is open communication between doctor and patient. For some, this comes easily and for others, it may take awhile to reach a certain level of comfort.

Understanding one’s beliefs, philosophies,habits, likes,dislikes, emotional health and goals often leads to a more complete understanding of one’s health state. Bad habits, addictions, repetitive mistakes, chronic stress, ignorance, inflexibility, anger, perfectionism, mood disorders and lack of vision are some examples of personal factors that can contribute to unwellness.

The mental/emotional state is considered to be as important as is the physical one. Altering one’s lifestyle, addressing long-standing issues and considering various options can help the healing process.

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Desensitization

This is a method of allergy or immunotherapy treatment using extremely small doses of allergens to desensitize people from their allergies.
It is effective for:

  • Inhalant and allergic reactions
  • Chemical sensitivities
  • Hormonal imbalances
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Detoxification Protocols

Detoxification is the elimination of toxicity in the body. In addition to the problem of environmental toxins, the foods we eat have refined much of the nutritional value out of our food supply and replaced it with artificial colorings, preservatives, flavorings etc. This poor quality diet, combined with the wide use of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture, negatively impact many aspects of overall health.

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Diet Therapy/ Weight Loss

Obesity is becoming more prevalent in our society. The Vancouver Naturopathic Clinic can build a specific weight loss program suitable for you. This program will address food allergies, possible sub-clinical syndromes causing weight gain, emotional cues to eating and exercise. Your progress will be monitored through regular meetings and body composition testing.

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Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT or Tapping)

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Food Sensitivity Testing

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Herbal Medicine

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Homeopathic Medicine

Homeopathic medicine is based on the principles of “like cures like” and developed in 1700s. Minute amounts of natural substances are used to stimulate the body’s self-healing abilities.

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Hormone Testing

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Hot, Moist Heat Packs

The use of heat in treating the body is almost as old as the history of mankind. Local heat relieves muscle spasm, dialates superficial blood and lymph vessels, increases perspiration and white blood cell activity and sedates the nervous system. Local heat is beneficial to a wide range of musculoskeletal disorders and helps diminish post injection discomfort.

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Infrared Sauna

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Intravenous Therapy

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Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy

Hormones are chemical messengers produced in the body that have specific effects on other cells and organs. Puberty,pregnancy, aging, and a variety of conditions and diseases effect hormone production and use. Examples of a few hormones are thyroid, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, pregnenolone, melatonin, and growth hormone.

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Neural Therapy

Neural therapy began in Germany in 1940’s and is a gentle healing system for chronic pain and illness. It involves the injection of local anaesthetic or other natural medicines into autonomic ganglia, peripheral nerves, scars, glands, acupuncture points, trigger points and other tissues. Neural therapy is based on the theory that dysfunction of the involuntary (autonomic) nervous system can lead to circulatory, lymphatic, electrical, hormonal and biochemical changes in tissues and organs. These changes produce interference fields or “fields of disturbance” which maybe silent, act locally, or act elsewhere in the body away from the original site.

Interference fields are often traumatized, chronically infected or disturbed tissues like scars, bad teeth, problematic sinuses, toxic liver/kidneys, pelvic organs and the thyroid gland to name a few, but can be any organ in the body.

A correctly applied neural therapy injection can often instantly and lastingly remove chronic long-standing illness and pain by “resetting” the tissue and eliminated the interference field. Many conditions benefit form neural therapy, such as headaches, tinnitus, sinusitis, whiplash, liver and galbladder disease, joint and nerve pain, asthma, gynecological illness and thyroid disease.

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Pain Management

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Parenteral Therapy

Parenteral or IV therapy is the administration of specific vitamins and minerals intravenously. It has been shown that this intravenous therapy can raise the nutrient levels in the blood higher than regular oral vitamin therapy. IV therapy can be used to help promote weight loss, increase athletic performance and boost the immune system. This therapy has also been shown to be beneficial in treating:

  • Fatigue
  • Allergies
  • Depression
  • Migraine headaches
  • Heart disease
  • Asthma
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Bronchitis
  • Muscle spasms
  • Drug addiction
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Prolotherapy

Prolotherapy is a technique for treating laxity and chronic pain around the joints, tendons, bursae and ligaments of the neck, back or extremities. It involves the injection of a concentrated sugar (dextrose) and local anaesthetic mixture into ligaments or tendons. The injected solution creates a controlled inflammatory response. This inflammatory response stimulates an increase in the number of fibroblasts, which are cells that build new connective tissue. The fibroblasts lay down new collagen tissue, which in animal and human studies have been shown to shorten, thicken and strengthen the injected ligaments. This causes a decrease in painful signals arising from the many nerves in lax ligaments and ultimately a decrease in pain.

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PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma)

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Scar Therapy

The body produces a scar as part of the healing cascade. Scars can be produced by trauma, surgery, chronic inflamation and by blood and nerve flow impairments. Scars maybe visible, onthe surface of the skin, or invisible, deep in the body’s organs and cavities. Some are obviously painful and restrict functions and others, though cosmetically noticeable, appear harmless.

It is known that scars can act like “fields of disturbance” and may produce not only local problems, but problems distant from their site. Scars create abnormal electrical forces that can effect the involuntary nervous system. Connective tissue (fascia) beneath scars can be restricted in movement and can cause pain. Scar tissue obstracts the normal network of blood, lymph, and nerve supply, thus causing alteration in the micro-architecture of the area.

Although difficult for many people to understand, scar tissue is a significant cause of chronic illness and if treated correctly, often yields “a lot of mileage” towards health recovery.

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TBM (Total Body Modification)

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Trigger Point Injection

Myofascial trigger points are tender areas within a taut band of muscles, which can cause local and referred pain to other areas of the body. These muscle “knots” can respond to heat, stretching, massage therapy and acupuncture, however the most effective treatment is to inject them. Using a combination of local anaesthetic,mineral, plant or homeopathic medicines, the trigger point can be injected and released to provide quick pain relief and a break in the spasm cycle. In many cases only one-two treatments is all that is needed however, patients with multiple trigger points may require more therapy.

Fibromyalgia, chronic headaches, TMJ syndrome, sciatica, and back pain are a few conditions that often respond well to this therapy.

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Urinalysis

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Weight Loss Programs

Obesity is becoming epidemic in North America. Excess weight can be very detrimental to one’s health and is linked to diseases like osteoarthritis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, gallstones and many more. Treatment involves diet and nutritional management, exercise and metabolic stimulation. Patients are educated in how to achieve these principles. Safe, effective and time proven approaches are individualized for each patient.

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Women’ Health including PAP smears

In general, women are more proactive about their own health and the health of the etire family as compared to men. Women most often take the lead role when it comes to providing health care for their children. As a result, women are the ones most likely to explore a variety of healthcare disciplines in order to find the desired solutions.

A woman’s unique anatomy and physiology predisposes her to a variety of different health concerns than that of a man. From puberty to menopause, contraception to childbirth, menstrula and hormonal concerns, sexual health, osteoporosis, female cancers, lifestyle and mental and emotional well-being, a woman requires specialized attention and treatment.

The Vancouver Naturopathic Clinic offers a group of diagnostic and therapeutic services specially to meet the needs of our female patients. These services, depending on the specific concern, can be utilized in conjunction with standard gynecological approaches or as stand alone treatments.

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  • Acupuncture
  • Allergy Therapies
  • Amino Acid Therapy
  • Blood Analysis
  • Botanical Medicine
  • Bowen Therapy
  • Chelation Therapy
  • Chronic Fatigue Management
  • Chronic Pain Management
  • Clinical Nutrition
  • Counseling/Lifestyle Management
  • Desensitization
  • Detoxification Protocols
  • Diet Therapy/ Weight Loss
  • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT or Tapping)
  • Food Sensitivity Testing
  • Herbal Medicine
  • Homeopathic Medicine
  • Hormone Testing
  • Hot, Moist Heat Packs
  • Infrared Sauna
  • Intravenous Therapy
  • Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy
  • Neural Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Parenteral Therapy
  • Prolotherapy
  • PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma)
  • Scar Therapy
  • TBM (Total Body Modification)
  • Trigger Point Injection
  • Urinalysis
  • Weight Loss Programs
  • Women’ Health including PAP smears

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