Treatments Offered

ACUPUNCTURE

Fine one-use disposable needles are inserted into the body into specific "acupuncture points" to bring about changes in the body's balance and homeostasis. These needles are retained in the body for up to 30 minutes.

PROLOTHERAPY

Consists of using a fine needle to inject an all natural solution into tendons, ligaments, labrum, meniscus, cartilage, and joints via the acupuncture points. The substance used is called dextrose, a form of sugar, this is diluted with B12, glucosamine and sodium cloride. Prolotherapy is a regenerative injection treatment used to stimulate the healing mechanism to repair damaged or injured areas in the spine and joints. Prolotherapy is considered a viable alternative to surgery, as an option to pain medications and anti-inflammatory injections such as cortisone and other steroidal injections. Prolotherapy is considered a safe, affordable option that allows the patient to keep working and/or training during treatment. The effectiveness of Prolotherapy depends on the overall health of the patient. The basic mechanism of Prolotherapy is simple and centered around the promotion of inflammation. When we inject Prolotherapy solutions into the affected ligaments, tendons, and/or joints, via acupuncture points, it leads to local inflammation in the injected area. The localized inflammation triggers a wound healing cascade, resulting in the deposition of new collagen, the material that ligaments and tendons are made of. New collagen shrinks as it matures. The shrinking collagen tightens the ligament that was injected and makes it stronger.

NEURAL THERAPY

Neural therapy is a form of complementary and alternative medicine in which local anesthetic is injected into certain locations of the body to treat chronic pain and illness.

MESOTHERAPY

This treatment protocol involves several injections, with the smallest of needles, in the area of facial wrinkles or lines that the patient wants to improve. With natural homeopathic remedies we can restore collagen, reduce wrinkles and offer a safe non-toxic way to restore that youthful appearance without any side effects or risk. This treatment is also used for painful conditions.

DRY NEEDLING

Another name of Acupuncture to trigger points or Ashi Points or Painfull Points in areas of pain.

BIO-PUNCTURE And Neural Therapy

Many athletes suffer from injuries and want to be healed quickly, without side effects. This can be accomplished with the use of natural homeopathic products which have been used in sports medicine treatments for over twenty years. In Germany there is a long tradition of the use of natural homeopathic products for "Sports Medicine" and treating sports injuries. These products are more beneficial when injected right at the site of the pain, for better and quicker results. This is especially true for muscles and ligaments that can't normally be reached by applying creams and ointments. These homeopathics remedies are an alternative to anti-inflammatory medication and cortisone injections and can be injected without side effects.

ELECTRO-ACUPUNCTURE

Micro-current is used on the acupuncture needles to bring about pain relief and offer a relaxing treatment at the same time.

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HOMEOPATHY

Homeopathy has been practiced in Europe since the early 1800's. Its founding father was a German physician, Samuel Hahnemann, MD. He developed a system of single remedies that were highly diluted to the point where little if any of the original compound was left in the solution. Homeopathics are basically energetic footprints of the original substance. The principle is to treat "Like with Like", better know as the Law of Similars. An example of this is if the basic compound provokes fever, it is used to treat fever. In the last 50 years, another German doctor, Dr. Reckeweg, took this medicine to the next level. In Dr. Reckeweg's therapeutic model, he devoloped a six stage "Disease Evolution Table" or (DET). His model establishes the stages of toxicity that create disease and the therapeutic protocol to treat it. This homeopathic model is known as Homotoxicology and uses combinations of homeopathically derived substances to treat the underlying toxicity and restore the patient's health.

INJECTION THERAPY

Dr. Nicholas Shirghio DOM, A.P. is pleased to offer Acu-point injection therapy Prolo-puncture, Prolotherapy and Bio-Puncture. He feels that these additional forms of treatment that accesses the body's matrix offers exciting possibilities in the treatment of pain and sports injuries. This therapy offers the patient different forms of treatment for chronic pain relief as well as pain relief for athletic and sports injuries. The forms of treatment that I offer for pain relief are the types of treatment that have been used successfully in Europe, Asia and South Africa for over twenty five years and are taught by Dr. Jan Kersschot MD, who is called The Father of Bio-Puncture. I have attended several training seminars and have learned these methods directly from Dr. Kersschot and have received Certification in Advanced Bio-Puncture and have been using his protocol successfully for the last Several years. Dr. Shirghio has completed extensive additional training in Prolo-Therapy Pain Management offered by the A.O.A.P.I.P.M. .

Prolotherapy consists of using a fine needle to inject an all natural solution into tendons, ligaments, labrum, meniscus, cartilage, and joints via the acupuncture points. The substance used is called dextrose, a form of sugar, this is diluted with B12, and sodium cloride. The injection stimulates new growth and repair, thereby promoting joint stability, mending tears, thickening regeneration and reducing pain. When injected into the torn tendons, ligament, labrums, meniscus, cartilage or joints, the dextrose solution induces a physiologic reaction that stimulates the healing processes to resume, and induces the migration of fibroblasts, used by the body to repair damaged cells, to the site of injection. Fibroblasts lay down new connective and fibrous tissue and in so doing, enlarge and strengthen and repair the damaged tendons, ligaments, labrum, meniscus, and cartilage making them stronger and less likely to be re-injured.

Auto sanguise using the patient's own blood as a marker for injection therapy is effective for many internal medical situations.

Homeopathic injection therapy is an effective non-toxic therapy used for pain management, "natural" facial rejuvenation and mesotherapy.

Neural therapy is a form of complementary and alternative medicine in which a local anesthetic is injected into certain locations of the body to treat chronic pain and illness.[1]

Acu-point injections can also be used for the delivery of nutritional supplements like vitamins C and B12.

For patients with pain management problems, Prolotherapy, Homeopathic injection therapy, Neural Therapy and Prolo-Puncture can provide long term and sometimes permanent pain relief without the use of steroids.