...Preventive Medicine can save your life.
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| Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy |
| Oxygen is essential for the proper functioning of every cell in the body. Increased oxygen levels allow increased cellular metabolism, improved waste removal, and a dramatically accelerated rate of healing. Hyperbaric Oxygen is a proven remedy for fatigue, muscle aches, tension, stress, and overall vitality that will invigorate the body, mind and soul. |
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"It is not entirely impossible, that, perhaps sometime in the next decade, professors of medicine will have difficulty in explaining why the treatment with (hyperbaric) oxygen was not widely adopted much earlier.”
~ Edward Teller, Director Emeritus, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, & Senior Research Fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford University - Textbook of Hyperbaric Medicine / K K Jain
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| Outpatient Rehabilitation |
| Northwest Health & Lifestyles Centre implements a progressive approach to injury treatment that combines patient education, individualized exercise, manual therapy, aquatic therapy and a full range of modalities. A variety of clinically proven programs are used. The centre Staff are an integral part of the Northwest Health & Lifestyles Centre experience and will coordinate with client physicians for the appropriate rehab program. |
Diagnostic Imaging |
| Imaging requirements at the Northwest Health & Lifestyles Centre are focused on the most advanced technologies for diagnosis of musculoskeletal pathologies. A complete, accurate diagnosis can be reached in a single day for most musculoskeletal injuries. MRI, MRA, Fluoroscopy EMG, and Digital Radiography will be offered at the Northwest Health & Lifestyles Centre and through all centre affiliates. |
Comprehensive Spine Center |
| Dr. Jason M. Collins provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and integrated team approach for the evaluation and management of disorders of the spine. The center focuses on the conservative treatment of spine disorders afflicting both the athlete and non-athlete. Treatment strategies strive to return the individual to their highest functional level possible in the shortest amount of time. |
Diagnostic Imagining |
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Imaging requirements at the Northwest Health & Lifestyles Centre are focused on the most advanced technologies for diagnosis of musculoskeletal pathologies. A complete, accurate diagnosis can be reached in a single day for most musculoskeletal injuries. MRI, MRA, Fluoroscopy EMG, and Digital Radiography will be offered at the Northwest Health & Lifestyles Centre and through all centre affiliates.
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| Nutritional Therapy |
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Nutritional therapy is a system of healing based on the belief that food, as nature intended, provides the medicine needed to obtain and maintain a state of health: food is our medicine and medicine is our food. Although some health problems require specific medication, many conditions can be relieved effectively with nutritional therapy. These include disorders ranging from chronic fatigue, energy loss, insomnia and depression, to backache, skin complaints, asthma, and headaches.
Nutritional therapy will also benefit in the absence of a specific illness to maintain a state of optimum health, and the change of eating patterns that is typically prescribed usually has far fewer side effects than synthetic medicines.
Nutritional therapy is a holistic discipline supported by the belief that nutrition, as the key to good health, is the all-embracing fundamental principle used since the time of the famous Greek doctor and founder of western medicine, Hippocrates. Nutritional therapy can help people of all ages stay at their personal peak of energy and vitality and plays a significant role in the practice of nutritional therapy as preventative medicine.
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