Non-Operative Solutions to Sports, Spine and Orthopedic Injuries


RESOURCES (click on red text for links)



                   "Let Food be Thy Medicine"  Hippocrates



Health and Nutrition
   

Remember: Food IS Medicine


Better Healers
       Improve Your Metabolism
       Improve Your Digestion
          Homemade soup stock (any recipe add 2 tablespoons raw apple cider vinegar)
        Unrefined salt (Celtic sea salt) www.grainandsaltsociety.com  It should appear discolored
        Raw apple cider vinegar (2 tablespoons in 4oz. of water sipped with meals twice a day)
             This can eliminate heartburn, reduce gas/bloating, and may reduced need for                  stomach medications (ie Tagament, Prevacid and the like which interfere with your body's ability to absorb necessary vitamins and minerals like B-12)

          Fermented foods (ie pickles, etc.)
        Supplements

             Probiotics

             DGL and slippery elm
             HCL
             Digestive enzymes

       Improve Your Diet

          ***Avoid/eliminate High Fructose Corn Syrup and Partailly Hydrogenated Oils/Transfats - they are TOXIC to you body making it work hard to get ride of it and leaving less for your brain and body's regular activities.

          Avoid artificial sweeteners like aspartame which is very bad for your body

          Carbohydrates- eliminate white sugar, flour and rice; eat whole grains and use natural sweetners (ie agave syrup, honey, maple syrup, rapadura, etc.) in moderation
          Fats- eliminate margarine, most oils; use butter, coconut oil, olive oil, and cod liver oil
          Protein- avoid protein powders and unfermented soy; use good quality protein.  You can get alto of protein from vegetables - no kidding.
          Drinks- avoid soda, fruit juice, sweet drinks; drink water, carbonated water, and herbal tea

      Diets should concentrate on fresh, whole foods, natural and seasonal, unprocessed foods and healthy fats.   

   

    Juice Plus

          It is nearly impossible to get your daily requirement of fresh fruits and vegetables, but this product can supplement your choice for a good diet.  It will help provide the vital nutrients and supple natural anti-oxidants to help your body repair itself from stress (physical, mental, and emotional).  To learn MUCH more, please click on the Juice Plus link.


    Douglas Labs

    Metagenics

    Nutritional Frontiers  

          Quality Tested Vitamins, Minerals, Fish Oil, etc. - get what you pay for


    Standard Process

           Quality Supplements


     Weston A. Price

            Learn about Your Food


     Biotensegrity

          Do you want to know how your body works?


     Nancy Appleton

             Health and Nutrition


    Garden of Life

             Quality Cod Liver Oil


   QuickStart

           General health product


   Superfat



**SIMPLE PROGRAM TO BETTER HEALTH & HEALING** (try for 6 weeks)

1.  Exercise - 20 to 30 minutes, 3-5 x/wk (more is better) and get your heart rate up.  Use intervals

2.  No High Fructose Corn Syrup and No Partially Hydrogenated Oils/Trans fats.  NO artificial sweetners.

3. Minimize/avoid refined sugars and simple carbohydrates like flour, pasta, bread, oatmeal, cereal, rice, white potatoes, etc. (vegetables and fruites have good carbohydrates). Sugars causes insulin levels to fluctuate and increases inflammation.  Two to three servings of vegetables at each meal (including breakfast).

4.  Juice Plus (Garden Blend + Orchard Blend and you can consider adding Vineyard Blend). This will improve your diet and give you fiber, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals and other good things in nature.

5.  Omega-3 fish oil (vegans can get it from flax seed).  At least 2gram/day (add EPA + DHA for total).  If your diet is pro-inflammatory, you will need more.  High doses are safe as long as it is good quality meaning no heavy metals and it has not sat around too long.

6.  Vitamin D3 - 4,000IU/day (high doses ie 50,000IU for 6 months are not toxic so if you hear 4,000 is too high make sure they have good data to back them up).  Optimal blood level should be greater than 60 ("normal" value could be as low as 28 depending on lab)

7.  Consider a good multi-vitamin, but if you have a good diet and Juice Plus you may not need this additional supplement

8.  Drink plenty of filtered, preferably alkalized, water.


**Consider blood tests for hormones levels and vitamin/mineral deficiencies to fine tune an individualized program and minimize cost for unnecessary supplements [ie MicroNutrient test and NutrEval (R)]


Books

   


    Bursting with Energy by Dr. Frank Shallenberger


    Type 2 Diabetes Breakthrough by Dr. Frank Shallenberger


   The Vitamin D Solution by Dr. Michael Holick


   Prolo Your Pain Away! Curing Chronic Pain with Prolotherapy by Dr. Ross Hauser

   

   Amazing Apple Cider Vinegar by Dr. Earl Mindell


    Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon


   Feel Good Look Younger by Dr. Edwin Lee


   Ultrametabolism by Dr. Mark Hyman


   Reversing Diabetes by Dr. Julian Whitaker



Diagnostic Options


    Musculoskeletal Utrasound
      


Organizations


     Hackett Hemwall Foundation
       
    American Association of Orthopeadic Medicine
       
    American Osteopathic Association
       
    American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
       
    American Academy of Family Practice
       
    American College of Sports Medicine
   

    American Academy of Nurse Practitioners   


Sites

    

   Dr Reeves


    Jockdoctors


    Exercise is Medicine


    Dr. Holick (Vitamin D)


    Alternative Health


    Hormone Health



Articles

   

  New York Times August 7, 2007

   Injections to Kick-Start Tissue Repair   by D Jane Brody

  
 Prolotherapy for Musculoskeletal Pain   by Donna Alderman, DO


   New York Times article about PRP and Football