JAMES SENSENIG, ND LETITIA DICK-KRONENBERG, ND, VNMI This column is transcribed from a weekly live conversation produced by the Naturopathic Medical Institute (NMI). The goal of NMI is to preserve and promote the principles of naturopathic philosophy...
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How to Address #MomGuilt
Andrea Maxim, ND Practice Building What is one thing that typically prevents us from enjoying our business? From acknowledging the small and big successes we have in practice? What is something that we all, at least at one point in our lives as parents, worry about...
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GroupOn + Rebooking + Retail = Solid New Business
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Tibial Intercondylar Eminence Fracture
Healed by Regenerative Injection Therapy (RIT) After Surgical Refusal David A. Tallman, DC, NMD I would like to preface this article by encouraging physicians to refer all patients with tibial eminence fractures to reputable orthopedic surgeons who are keen on the...
PSA Screening and Biopsy: Are They Really Necessary?
Phranq D. Tamburri, NMD No topic in the current landscape of urology has been so discussed and wrangled as the topic of early screening for prostate cancer. With this spiraling medical debate, general practitioners and their patients, whom they must advise, are...
October 2011 |Cardiology, Pulmonology & Ophthalmology
Calming Atrial Fibrillation Naturopathic Medicine for a Common Condition..............................>> cover Paul R. Saunders, PHD, ND Natural Eye Therapies You Can Use Now: 2011 Update...........................>> bottom of cover Paul S. Anderson, ND...
The “White Plague”
Clinical Pearls Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE Like a serpent in the grass or among stones lying in ambush for its prey, consumption often begins to do its destroying work in some part of the system before it shows itself openly. -Father Sebastian Kneipp, 1896, p. 240 A...
Calming Atrial Fibrillation
Naturopathic Medicine for a Common Condition Paul R. Saunders, PhD, ND Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia. It occurs when a dysfunctional autonomic nervous system and sensitive heart tissue are triggered. There is a loss of synchronicity between...
Driving Traffic Through Blogging
Be a Leader in your Industry James Maskell As we have looked at in previous columns, developing dynamic, socially integrated content is the most important task in growing your presence on the new world wide web. Your basic checklist to do this successfully is: • A...
Functional Medicine, Allopathic Medicine, and Naturopathic Medicine
How to Reconnect the Dots and Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again Thomas Kruzel, ND, and Zora DeGrandpre, ND At an excellent functional medicine conference in Bellevue, Washington (April 28-30, 2011), “The Challenge of Emerging Infections in the 21st Century:...
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Can We Slow Aging in Patients? Autophagy, Mitophagy, Genetics & Epigenetics
CHRIS D. MELETIS, ND Aging – or more specifically, how to slow it down – is a topic that has fascinated scientists, doctors, and the general population for thousands of years. Yet despite our advancements in medicine and science, we still don’t know for sure...
Orthobiologics and Epicondylosis: Tendon Healing Using Microfragmented Adipose Tissue and PRP
TERRANCE MANNING II, ND, RMSK A 53-year-old male presented to the clinic with persistent right lateral elbow pain. The pain onset was insidious, yet this patient had had recurrent symptoms for several years; the most recent episode started 8 months before this...
The Death of the Live Lecture? Didactic Education: From the Flexner Report to COVID-19
FRASER SMITH, MATD, ND As I contemplated a title for this month’s column, I thought of a prototypical fake headline such as “News Flash: Naturopathic medical students prefer actual human contact to listening to screencasts!” That’s not much of a revelation....
Microneedling and PRP: A Formula for Stimulating Hair Regrowth
JANNINE KRAUSE, ND, EAMP As a practitioner that has used microneedling for the past 8 years, I would consider it one of the most effective therapies for skin rejuvenation and anti-aging therapy. Originally developed in the 1990s for treating scars and...
Thyroid Infection May Follow COVID-19 in Some Patients
Node Smith, ND COVID-19 infection may cause subacute thyroiditis, according to a new case study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. COVID-19 infection may cause subacute thyroiditis Subacute thyroiditis is an inflammatory thyroid...
COVID-19 May Lead to Delirium and PTSD
Node Smith, ND People taken ill by coronavirus infections may experience psychiatric problems while hospitalized and potentially after they recover, suggests an analysis of past research led by the UCL Institute of Mental Health with King's College London...
How the Coronavirus Transferred From Animals to Humans
Node Smith, ND A team of scientists studying the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, found that it was especially well-suited to jump from animals to humans by shapeshifting as it gained the ability to infect human cells. Virus was...
A Molecule that May Stop Drug Cravings
Node Smith, ND Duke University researchers have developed a synthetic molecule that selectively dampens the physiological rewards of cocaine in mice. It also may represent a new class of drugs that could be more specific with fewer side effects than current...
What Happens in the Brain to ‘Disconnect’ During Sleep?
Node Smith, ND During sleep and under anesthesia, we rarely respond to such external stimuli as sounds even though our brains remain highly active. Now, a series of new studies by researchers at Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of...
Notes from the Field: March, 2020
Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Jared L. Zeff, ND, VNMI, LAc The following is not an article prepared for a medical journal. Not every statement of fact is cited or referenced. This is a commentary on the medicine, a running set of observations about practice in the...
Physician Heal Thyself: It’s in the Roots of Our Medicine
Aaron Wong, ND, RTC Imagine how we would feel if we went to work feeling passionately inspired to see all of our patients. Challenges would come up, but in those times we would know we could make decisions clearly and ethically and that if we needed help, we could...
Complex Chronic Illness: Retraining the System with Mind-Body Medicine
Tolle Totum Lauren Tessier, ND Naturopathic physicians are taught to treat the whole person and find the underlying cause of illness. In times of quick appointments, mountains of paperwork, and insurance mandates, we rarely have the time to have more than a “bare...
A Return to Balance
The Vital Conversation James Sensenig, NDJudith Boice, ND, LAc, FABNO, VNMI This article joins a series of articles in NDNR that are based on transcripts of the Naturopathic Medicine Institute (NMI)’s Wednesday morning call-in program, The Vital...
Candid Post-Covid Considerations: Protecting Our Core Ideas in Naturopathic Education
David J. Schleich, PhD As our digital and local lives expand and our physical and global ones contract, this sea change will create and destroy value. (Mark Carney, 2020) In the naturopathic community, there has been wonderful growth in the past quarter-century...
Notes from the Field: March, 2020
Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Jared L. Zeff, ND, VNMI, LAc The following is not an article prepared for a medical journal. Not every statement of fact is cited or referenced. This is a commentary on the medicine, a running set of observations about practice in the...
Physician Heal Thyself: It’s in the Roots of Our Medicine
Aaron Wong, ND, RTC Imagine how we would feel if we went to work feeling passionately inspired to see all of our patients. Challenges would come up, but in those times we would know we could make decisions clearly and ethically and that if we needed help, we could...
Complex Chronic Illness: Retraining the System with Mind-Body Medicine
Tolle Totum Lauren Tessier, ND Naturopathic physicians are taught to treat the whole person and find the underlying cause of illness. In times of quick appointments, mountains of paperwork, and insurance mandates, we rarely have the time to have more than a “bare...
A Return to Balance
The Vital Conversation James Sensenig, NDJudith Boice, ND, LAc, FABNO, VNMI This article joins a series of articles in NDNR that are based on transcripts of the Naturopathic Medicine Institute (NMI)’s Wednesday morning call-in program, The Vital...
Candid Post-Covid Considerations: Protecting Our Core Ideas in Naturopathic Education
David J. Schleich, PhD As our digital and local lives expand and our physical and global ones contract, this sea change will create and destroy value. (Mark Carney, 2020) In the naturopathic community, there has been wonderful growth in the past quarter-century...
Guided Imagery for Pain Relief: Improving Clinical Outcomes with Mind-Body Healing
Tolle Causam Sasha Pustam, ND (inactive) According to psychotherapist Belleruth Naparstek, guided imagery is “a form of deliberate, directed daydreaming – a purposeful use of the imagination that deploys words and phrases designed to evoke rich, multisensory fantasy...
Benzodiazepines & Anxiety: A Case Study Using Natural Alternatives
Alli ErdahlJessica Nagelkirk, ND Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be associated with significant anxiety and depression that decrease the patient’s quality of life.1 Due to their rapid-acting effects, benzodiazepines are commonly prescribed for anxiety...
Carpe Momentum: A Mindful Message
Jim Massey, ND, HANP We’re all familiar with the adage “Carpe diem,” meaning “Seize the day.” I remember first hearing “Carpe annum” as we approached the New Year’s Day holiday, reminding us to seize the year ahead. These words of wisdom offer worthy advice. With the...
Helping the Body Sing: Resolving Chronic Pain Using Touch
Naturopathic Perspective Christopher Maloney, ND As someone who has read hundreds of thousands of pages since graduating from NUNM back in 2002, I’d like to think that my intelligence is my major asset as a doctor. But everything I’ve learned is a distant second to...
Bio-Electric Chemistry in Practice: A Case Study
Tolle Totum Darrell S.C.S. Misak, ND, RPh Everyone is tired of feeling tired, and as a practitioner of natural medicine, my goal is to understand why when a patient consults me. From generation to...
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