Anyone who has ever experienced chronic pain knows how debilitating it can be. Yet the most commonly recommended conventional medical solution—prescription opioid painkillers—is turning out to be worse than the problem. Opioids may stop the pain, but at a high price: growing numbers of deaths due to opioid overdose and higher rates of addiction and misuse.
As a naturopathic doctor and chiropractor, Dr. Ma emphasizes a holistic approach that offers safe and effective alternatives to highly addictive drugs for managing chronic pain. These plans take into account each individual’s lifestyle, nutrition, work and leisure activities, current and past stressors, and relevant previous injuries—in other words, the root causes of each person’s pain and all its manifestations. The plans use various combinations of dietary recommendations and nutritional supplements along with botanical medicines to help reduce inflammation and the pain it causes. Exercise, physical rehabilitation, and mind-body approaches that are known to reduce perception of pain are also included in the plans.
Common Conditions include:
- Low back pain
- Neck pain
- Headaches
- Sciatica
- Herniated discs
- Pediatric care
- Rotator cuff injuries
- Tendonitis
- Sprains/strains
- Chronic pain
- Auto immune disease
