Point Grey Naturopathic Services
Sports Medicine | Naturopathic Medicine | Pediatrics
Sports Medicine
Sports medicine is a broadly encompassing term covering all aspects of an athletes health and performance.
Having competed in 35 marathons, several triatholons, hundreds of running races and the Ultimate Ironman competion in Canada, adds a unique dimension to Dr. Pushpa Chandra's treatment methods and understanding of sports medicine.
Prolotherapy is one of Dr. Pushpa Chandra's treatment methods for sports injuries. Prolotherapy is a non-surjical joint reconstruction method that stimulates the body to repair and strengthen ligaments and tendons. In turn, this restores stability, improves functioning and reduces pain.
Prolotherapy involves an injection of natural substances to the site of injury. These substances assist in stimulation and healing of the tendons and ligaments. Techincally speaking, prolotherapy allows for fibroblastic proliferation. Fibroblasts are the cells that grow the ligaments. By increasing the growth rate of these fibroblasts, through prolotherapy, new and strong collagen tissue is formed which repairs the injuried ligaments and tendons.
In its modern form, Prolotherapy has been practiced for over 100 years and in Canada only Physicians are licensed in its application.
Prolotherapy is most effective for athlethes suffering from:
- Musculoskeletal pain such as arthiritis and back pain.
- Sports injuries.
- Whiplash injuries.
- Chronic tendonitis.
- Paritially torn ligaments, tendons and or cartilage.
Length of Treatment:
The response to treatment varies from patient to patient and most accurately depends on one's innate healing ability. Some patients require only a few sessions while other may need ten or more. The average is about four to six treatments.
Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathic medicine seeks to promote health through the prevention of diease and promotion of good health. It aims to improve health and treat disease chiefly by assisting the body's innate capacity to recover from illness and injury.
Naturopathic medicine achieves this goal by applying many modalities such as herbalism, homeopathy, aromatherapy and other methods.
Moroever, it is a method that emphasizes the use of natural remedies such as exercise, herbs and foods rather than surgery or synthetic drugs.
Some of the Naturopathic Modalities include:
- Clinical Nutrition: Nutrition and therapeutic use of food is the cornerstone of naturopathic medicine. Food intolerances, deficiencies, and dietary imbalances have been associated with many medical conditions. Naturopathic doctors are trained to let "medicine be your food and food your medicine".
- Botanical Medicine: The use of plants for healing dates back to the dawn of civilization and is the basis of modern pharmacology.
- Homeopathy: This treatment method is based on the principle of "like cures like". Homeopathy applies small amounts of natural substances to stimulate the body's own vital healing force. When these natural substances are carefully matched to the illness, the body's innate healing forces are stimulated.
- Lifestyle Counselling: The Naturopathic doctor discusses lifestyle in promoting healthy changes and empowering the patient to assume responsibilty.
- Prevention: The Naturopathic doctor always emphasizes the importance of disease prevention. This is accomplished by studying risk factors, hereditary susceptibility of disease and making appropriate interventions in partnership with the patient to prevent the illness.
