Ju Young Yoo, BSc Adam Gratton, MSc, ND Student Scholarship – Honorable Mention Research Review Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis, affecting more than 10% of Canadians aged 15 years or older.1,2 The cost associated with OA in Canada was...
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Medical Cannabis: An Antidote to the Opioid Epidemic?
Jamie Corroon, ND, MPH Naturopathic Perspective In the absence of a few basic statistics, the significance of the opioid epidemic in the United States can be easily underappreciated. In 2015, the most recent year for which the Centers for Disease Control and...
Prolotherapy: A New Approach to Osteoarthritis Care?
Ryan Sciacchitano, BKin, CSCS, CISSN Tracey Teasdale, ND, CISSN Student Scholarship – First Place Research Review Osteoarthritis (OA) is characterized by degeneration of the articular cartilage of a joint, as well as the associated joint lining, ligaments, and...
Urinary Colic & Lithiasis
Jillian Stansbury, ND Botanical Insights Herbal Specifics Renal colic due to kidney stones can present as vague to excruciating pain, no matter the size of calculi. Renal colic pain is not due to the stone itself, but rather is due to obstruction of the urinary flow...
Cancer-Related Pain: Can Natural Therapies Be Effective Adjuncts?
Heather Paulson, ND, FABNO Tolle Causam Cancer-related pain is frequently experienced by cancer patients and can negatively both affect quality of life and functional status. According to the National Cancer Institute, pain occurs in 20% to 50% of patients with...
Somatic Awakening: Using Our Spirit to Decrease Pain & Heal Trauma
Melissa Patterson, ND Doctors As Patients After many years of honing the powerful mind-body-spirit modality that I’ve come to call somatic awakening, I was finally getting ready to present it to the public. I have to admit that I was a little nervous. I began...
Chronic Tick-borne Infections: Relief Using Bee Venom Treatment?
Monique Hallee, BScHK, NDChris Hergesheimer, BA, MA Abstract Chronic manifestations of Lyme disease and its co-infections, notably Bartonella, remain difficult to treat and often persist despite standard antibiotic therapy. This case report describes a 53-year-old...
Dispelling A Methylation Myth
Cristiana Paul, MS David M. Brady, ND, DC, CCN, DACBN Docere Do Different Forms of B12 Have Different Clinical Effects? This article will explore the characteristics of supplemental forms of vitamin B12 (cobalamin) and how these various forms may differentially behave...
Similar Thought: My Aching Back
Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND Frank is a hard working plumber. He was coming up on 3 months of unbearable back pain when I met him. After 6 weeks of chiropractic therapy and steroid medication, he was really no further ahead. His backache is related to a work related...
Chronic Prostatitis & Pain: Getting to the Root and Resolving It
Tolle Causam Eric Yarnell, ND, RH(AHG) “Chronic prostatitis” is a common but under-recognized, poorly researched entity that addresses a spectrum of disease in men. It includes interstitial cystitis (IC), a condition formerly believed to occur largely in women until...