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 Dr.Rick Santimaw BHSc, ND
Dr. Santimaw is a licensed naturopathic physician who has developed a keen interest in the following areas:
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Sports medicine and Injury rehabilitation.
- Endocrine Disorders (with special interest in Diabetes).
- Healthy-Aging (Detoxification, Nutritional Counseling, Exercise, Heavy Metal Chelation, IV Therapy).
- Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
- Cardiovascular Pathologies
- Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture
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Dr. Santimaw is committed to providing the highest standard of quality care for all of his patients.
A thorough intake of each patient’s medical, nutritional, and lifestyle history and a review of all relevant medical tests (such as lab work and/or imaging) are done before reaching a diagnosis and treatment plan. These treatment plans may include one or many of the following modalities:
• Nutrition --- Diet management, specific supplementation, overall nutritional education.
• Physical Medicine --- Exercise, joint mobilization and/or manipulation, massage and other soft tissue therapies, Hydrotherapy.
• Botanical Medicine --- Western Herbal Remedies.
• Traditional Chinese Medicine --- Tongue and pulse diagnosis, Chinese herbs, and Acupuncture.
• Counseling --- Emotional and spiritual guidance, personal growth.
• Homeopathy --- an energetic, medicinal modality that literally means “like cures like”. Homeopathic remedies are based on substances that, in diluted form, cause symptoms similar to the disease that they aim to treat. This is an especially safe and gentle route for treatment of infants and children.
• Detoxification --- Diet modifications, tissue drainage, organ support, lifestyle change.
• Desensitization Therapies for allergies or sensitivities --- Allergy testing, environmental and nutritional modifications.
• Neural Therapy --- Neural therapy is a method of diagnosing and treating illness and pain caused by disturbances of the body's electrophysiology affecting the autonomic nervous system. Therapeutic injections help to “reset” components of the patient’s nervous system and restore health and function.
• Mesotherapy --- The use of therapeutic injections into mesodermal tissue to treat a variety of conditions including: musculoskeletal injuries, insomnia, and migraines. Mesotherapy is also valuable as a healthy aging agent as it is useful for fat and cellulite reduction, facial rejuvenation, treatment of hair loss, and smoking cessation.
• Intravenous Therapy --- This includes intravenous vitamin therapies (such as IV Vitamin C) and heavy metal chelation (pulling of heavy metals out of the tissues for excretion).
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