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Physiotherapy Dr. Trent Brereton, ND

WebAs a practitioner, my goal is to work cooperatively with all other health care providers involved in your care until we have you feeling and functioning better. As a physiotherapist, my skill set includes physiotherapy assessment and diagnosis of injuries, education on: ergonomics, exercise programs, behaviour adaptation and training for future

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URL: https://kootenayhealthcentre.ca/physiotherapy

Naturopathic Medicine

WebNaturopathic Medicine is a distinct healing science and philosophy that blends traditional natural therapies with current advances in science and the study of human health. Naturopathic Medicine is guided by the following principles: Principles of Naturopathic Medicine. Primum Non Nocere (First Do No Harm)

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Food Sensitivity and Weight Gain

WebLast week I started a series of articles on weight loss with a discussion of body mass index (BMI) and how having a BMI between 24 and 30 is associated with the lowest risk in mortality. This might come as a surprise giv

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EDTA Chelation and Vascular Disease

WebLast week I started writing about EDTA chelation and ozone therapy for the treatment of vascular disease. Cardiovascular disease involves injury to the vessels around the heart, while cerebrovascular disease involves ve

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Cancer and Low Dose Naltrexone

WebLast week I introduced a drug called Naltrexone that is traditionally used in larges doses to help people get off opiates like heroin. In small doses (LDN) it is a novel treatment for pain, inflammation, immune system di

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Hip and Knee Arthritis

WebThere are a handful of truly effective options for treating arthritis that both reduce inflammation and help the joint heal. In cases of advanced knee arthritis, however, where the joint has very little cartilage left, a

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Hidden Benefits Of Hot Yoga

WebThe benefits of hot yoga are many and include improved sleep, energy, mood, reduced pain and weight loss. To better understand how hot yoga gives these benefits we have to look a little deeper into the processes that are stimulated by practicing hot yoga. Combining heat, humidity with strengthening and stretching supercharges cellular detoxification, …

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Chiropractic Medicine

WebAppointments with Dr. Megan can be made by calling Treena or Fairry at 250-426-5228 ext. 2 or by clicking the button below and scheduling yourself on our Jane account (available soon).

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Hormone Replacement Therapy

WebHormone replacement therapy (HRT) is less often used today compared to 12 years ago before a large scale study showed that HRT increased a woman’s risk of cancer and heart disease. In 1991 the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) enrolled 160,000 post menopausal women aged 50-79 to be studied for 15 years. The results of this and other well designed …

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Oxygen Utilization

WebOxygen utilization is a term used to describe how well your body uses oxygen, fat and glucose to make energy. As we age, our ability to utilize oxygen diminishes resulting in the diseases and infirmities of aging. Redu

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Here Come the Bugs

WebWith rainy fall weather upon us and kids back to school we’re all spending more time indoors sharing our invisible friends that cause the cold and flu. Normally our house, like most with kids in school, goes down after o

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Free, Unlimited Antioxidants

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ND Consult/Injection Fees

WebThe following fees outline the costs for the ultrasound guided peripheral joint and spine injections offered by Dr. Brereton. New patients seeing Dr. Brereton for an injection procedure will be charged for the pre-procedure consultation time based on the time spent consulting (as per the Consultation Fees listed above), in addition to the cost of the …

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Alcohol Studies Flawed

WebIn the summer of 2017 I was at a workshop in Vancouver where we met a Medical Geneticist who taught me some surprising things about alcohol and health. Medical Geneticists are MD’s who diagnose and manage people with hereditary (genetic) disorders. Due to the nature of treating rare diseases, geneticists spend a good deal of time …

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