AthletiZen Optimal Health Special

AthletiZen offers a Package Special tailored to athletes training for an endurance event such as triathlon or half-marathon/marathon in order to optimize your overall health. Through our custom program of testing and treatment you will learn how to better take care of yourself for better results. In a period of one to two months, you will feel very differently about your athletic potential – and performance!

We believe that balanced biochemistry and circulation improve health and thereby performance. Science has proven the effectiveness of our programs. Just like you wouldn’t cut corners on racing gear or fitness training, you can’t ignore your healthcare. Take control of your body and let AthletiZen help you build your optimal athletic success.

Our Optimal Health Special includes:

• Intake Consultation: Sixty minutes of individual health history, evaluation and prescription of medications/supplements, prescription for labs and first acupuncture treatment if appropriate.
• 5 Thirty minute acupuncture sessions
• One follow-up medical consultation to evaluate progress and complete treatment process with education for maintaining overall health going forward. Lab work is reviewed and relevant prescriptions for supplements will be made.

The Optimal Health Special is offered at a %15 discount and billed in 4 convenient weekly payments of $175.

Laboratory fees and supplements are charged separately.

Naturopathic Medicine

The individually prescribed health programs at AthletiZen are laboratory based because we have found that one size does not fit all athletes – and our clientele is not interested in trial-and-error medicine. You want results and you want them for the race next week. We have developed a series of specialty labs to pinpoint the areas of nutrition that need repair and give natural prescriptions to correct individual chemistry and improve overall health – right away.

No one else provides the comprehensive care you will receive at AthletiZen. There is no need to travel between a nutritionist, physical therapist, acupuncturist and chiropractor to get the results you deserve for all your hard work. The backbone of this program is Naturopathic Medicine – primary care medicine from a natural perspective. We will address all the underlying causes of suboptimal health that hold you back on your casual morning run or your annual Ironman.

Acupuncture

While studying Naturopathic Medicine, Dr. Katahdin trained for her first triathlon. She became an acupuncture patient and was astounded by the results.

She decided to study Chinese Medicine because she knew then that nothing can do for muscles, joints and tendons what acupuncture can do. She went on to write her Masters thesis on the treatment of athletes with Chinese Medicine and has specialized in related therapies throughout her career.

Particularly effective for treatment and prevention of sports injuries, acupuncture is also very helpful for providing digestive, hormonal, energy and mood balance that are so important for athletic performance and overall health.

Biopuncture: Exciting new treatment for Orthopedic Injury

Biopuncture is a therapy whereby small doses of homeopathic medicines are injected into injured areas to heal tissues and alleviate pain.

Injections contain diluted products so that toxic side effects are very unlikely. The medicines used in Biopuncture are manufactured by companies that guarantee the production quality of their products. Most of the medicines used for injection are made in Germany and are submitted to very strict quality control regulations and systems. Clinical studies on thousands of patients have confirmed the safety of medicines like Traumeel and Zeel.

When you receive a vaccination, only small amounts of a product are necessary to stimulate the immune system - a few injections can protect your body for several years against a serious disease. Biopuncture injections are not vaccinations, but the mechanism of action is similar - small doses of the right product can have a huge effect. Biopuncture creates clinical effects by stimulating your immune system to do its own healing work.

In conventional medicine, the drug you take suppresses your symptoms immediately. That’s why you need to take high doses of chemical substances in order to suppress pain. As soon as the medication stops working, you have to take another pill - that’s how these drugs are designed.

The goal of Biopuncture is to stimulate natural inflammation to heal injured tissues - exactly the opposite of conventional drugs. As a result, the symptomatic relief may take longer, especially for chronic cases. When dealing with acute injures, however, the effects of the injections are apparent almost immediately.

Many people are apprehensive about injections but will be surprised by how easily and quickly these injections are given. The needle is very fine and the quantity injected is very small: they look like little pinpricks. Most are given just under the skin; others are given into specific muscle points or into ligaments.

Dr. Katahdin uses Biopuncture for minor orthopedic problems. It is very successful in treating neck and back pain, sciatica, and all sorts of sports and overuse injuries.