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The risk factors regarding low Vitamin D levels and fatality with COVID19 are conspicuously lining up. Low Vitamin D levels are associated with African American patients, obesity, elderly nursing home residents and seasonality. The mechanisms for Vitamin D helping with respiratory viruses are threefold: helping the respiratory mucosa prevent infection...
After years of treating pain patients with treatments best directed at localized pain, I increasingly saw more patients with diffuse pain often accompanied by other symptoms such as fatigue, sleep disturbance, bowel symptoms, brain fog, anxiety, depression and others. Many times they had been worked up for autoimmune disease, but...
Share this post: The American Massage Therapy Association has released an article about the use of massage therapy as an alternative to opioid use. It goes into detail about how massage therapy can be used as a pain management technique for those in need. It is an alternative to...
Share this post: Medical Acupuncture is performed by a licensed physician, using a combination of Western medical training through US medical schools and the medical tradition found in classical Chinese acupuncture. Western Medicine practiced in the United States and Europe uses an anatomic, metabolic and structural approach to the...
Share this post: James Tobin, MD is welcomed to our medical team. While conventional medicine treats symptoms, Dr Tobin offers a personalized treatment plan to examine the underlying cause of disease. This integrative approach is a patient centered practice, using cutting edge genetic medical testing. With over 25 years...
Share this post: What if you could follow a group of people through their entire lives to see how their choices impact their well-being and quality of life? Decades ago, researchers from Harvard University set out to do exactly that. Four directors and 75 years later, the Harvard Study...
Share this post: Questions about Bowen are by far the most common type of questions we get at our practice. The Bowen technique itself (also known as “Bowenwork”) is a dynamic system of muscle and connective tissue therapy that was developed by the late Tom Bowen in Geelong,...
Share this post: You are your own greatest resource, but nowadays, there’s a good chance your priorities don’t often reflect that. That’s unfortunate because self-care – that is, activities that allow us to attend to our own needs – is a critical component of both mental and physical health....
Share this post: Stress balls are everywhere – at trade shows, at your doctor’s office, lying forgotten in the far corners of your household junk drawer. Everyone seems to love giving them away, but do stress balls actually do anything to relieve anxiety? The short answer is...
Share this post: Acupuncture has become more mainstream than it once was, and many swear by it as a means of relieving a variety of symptoms and conditions. But there’s more to this traditional Chinese modality than needles alone. The practice of acupuncture predates recorded history. Acupuncture...