So how much should you take? Base it on blood levels. Take vitamin D until your blood levels fall between 30 and 74 ng/ml, or you feel remarkably better. Shoot for 50-70. If you supplement with D, measure your blood levels at least twice yearly to ensure you’re not getting too much. In 1999, Dr. Reinhold Vieth determined it’s practically impossible to become toxic on 2,000 IUs a day. You’ll find D supplements at the pharmacy and health food store with dosages of 5,000 or 10,000 IU per capsule preferably D3.

Over-the-counter vitamin D3 (aka cholecalciferol) is different from the drug that is vitamin D2 (aka ergocalciferol). D2 is synthetic and less potent than natural D3 supplements. Cod liver oil provides natural D3 plus healthy essential fatty acids. But the best and cheapest way to get vitamin D3 is from sunshine.

Talking Chiropractic With Dr. Phil-

I wanted to make you aware that chiropractic will be featured for the first time ever on the “Dr. Phil” show. This is an opportunity for you to learn more about chiropractic and the role it plays in your health. I would greatly appreciate it if you would watch the program and let me know your thoughts the next time you come in. The show airs on Wednesday, March 14. You can check the exact time and station online at: http://drphil.com/shows/listing/?localListing=CA&formAction=save

Live X-Ray Guidance for Precision Injections

A C-arm fluoroscope is a device used by our experienced physicians to guide a needle to a specific area while watching that needle on a live x-ray screen.

Our practice is different in that rather than having to take a patient to a hospital or surgery center to use such an expensive device, we have a procedure room in our office equipped with a state of the art C-arm.

This gives us greater flexibility with our patients and allows us to offer patients without insurance coverage access to advanced injection techniques as no hospital or surgery center fee is added.  In addition we do take insurance and have affordable fees.

Video of C-arm in use,  Pain Relief C-Arm  Click Here

A lot of Nerve!

Being an acupuncturist we can provide you with treatments that may speed recovery from pain as well as numbness.

I find incredible success doing a hybrid treatment developed in Europe. Being involved in the Veterans Administration Chronic Pain Program has allowed me to finalize what I feel is the most successful treatment for neuropathic syndromes in alternative health.

If neuropathic pain is due to compression of a nerve by a ruptured disc, chiropractic and interventional pain techniques may be recommended.

Call the office if you’re one of the countless sufferers of peripheral neuropathy I’ll be happy to answer your questions.

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Weight Management

The management program we have with medication using Phentermine/Adipex (brand Name) has been used for many years.

Medication is used with proper dietary measurements and proper protocols.  Diet medications are not the cure all for weight loss put to be used as a tool to give you motivation.  While you are loosing the weight we investigate if you have any underlying metabolic syndromes with digestion and /or Hormone imbalances.  This way when you loose the pounds you do not Yo-yo diet.  By going up and down.  Give us a call for a complimentary consult and see if our unique successful individual approach gets you to shed pounds.  We guarantee transformation.

Our program uses the newer techniques in weight management:  We help you pick and choose.  You do not need all of the following.

Metabolic Labs, Silvia tests

• Hormone Profiles such as thyroid, estrogen, progesterone.
• Liver gallbladder function
• Micronutrient testing
• Life Coach
• Hydro-colonics
• Contour muscle with Acupuncture and or muscle stimulation.

As one can see many options let us guide you through a healthy lifestyle that lasts.

Colic Babies and Chiropractic…Natural HelpDid you Know?

Colic is a the term commonly used to describe the unexplained and uncontrollable crying in babies from 0-3 months old that often last for more than three hours a day.

Many believe that colic can be derived from allergies, gas in the intestine, and birth trauma.  The exact cause of colic is unknown.

Research from the “Journal of Manipulative and Physiologic Therapeutics” has concluded that “Spinal manipulation is effective in relieving infantile colic”. In a two week study half of infants with colic received chiropractic treatment and the other half received a drug dimethicone. All of the adjusted babies stayed in the study, while only 64% of the dimethicone babies completed the two-week study. During the study, the children being adjusted saw a 67% reduction in crying and the drug therapy group saw only a 38% reduction in crying.

The average number of gentle adjustments given during the two-week study was 3.8. Conclusion from the study shows how Chiropractic Care is effective in treating children suffering with colic.

**If you have a child who experiences colic, please call our clinic so that we may arrange a spinal Free examination for your child**  Why free if  we can help we will tell you if ca not we will tell you to.  Is that fair.  In addition since our office offers other alternative healthcare.  We use a multidisciplinary approach.

Call  right now! (954) 255-9355. Contact us with questions or concerns.

Ear infections account for more visits to a medical practitioner’s office than any other illness.

Majority of children will have their first ear infection before their first birthday, while two thirds will have had one or more by the age of three.

Ear infections can be bacterial or viral in nature. Most of the time antibiotics are administered for the ear infection, but what most parents don’t realize is that if the infection is viral the antibiotics are useless! Not to mention that antibiotics encourage the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria with reoccurring infections and more antibiotics administered.

Many parents have found that the number and frequency of ear infections in their children decreased following chiropractic adjustments. The chiropractic adjustment administered to the child is performed by a gentle, low force pressure allowing the misalignment to be corrected and normal function restored.

If you have a child who experiences frequent ear infections, please call our clinic so that we may arrange a spinal examination for your child. At East West Physicians there is no charge for children under 12 years of age.

What is Kinesio-Tape?

Most taping methods are to limit range of motion and add stability. With kinesio tape, athletic performance is not restricted with the injured area , but rather supported without limitation. This taping method is a form of rehabilitation to facilitate the body’s natural healing process.

Mechanism behind kinesio tape:

• Provides soft tissue manipulation to extend the benefits of therapy administered in the clinical setting.
• Correcting muscle function by strengthening weakened muscles
• Improving circulation of blood and lymph by eliminating tissue fluid or bleeding beneath the skin by moving the muscle
• Decreasing pain through neurological suppression
• Repositioning subluxed joints by relieving abnormal muscle tension helping to return the function of fascia and muscle.
• Improve posture

East West Physicians STOP  Smoking Program, Works!
No one in today’s society can be totally unaware of the dangers involved in cigarette smoking. Being an Acupuncturist and working with Medical Doctors in our facility we have put together a powerful program to help those who want to quit smoking, NOW.  For that matter most addictions such as Alcohol and drugs we have specialized programs too..  We give you choices by using our multi-modality (needles, lasers or combo) and multidisciplinary Team of Acupuncturists, Medical Doctors and Detox Physicians.  Our addiction programs work because of this unique approach in one office!
Millions of dollars each year are spent on smoking cessation programs. However, many smokers have given up trying to quit because they simply find it too difficult to fight their addiction.
Acupuncture may provide just the additional leverage that a smoker needs to finally quit for good. A recent article in the Preventive Medicine journal highlights a study done on acupuncture and its effectiveness on assisting patients to stop smoking.

We use small needles and/or lasers that stimulate the skin in a particular area. The area chosen for stimulation is thought to correspond to the meridian, or pathway, that provides energy to the affected body system or area.   For example, for smoking, the needles or lasers are used in areas that will affect energy flow to the mouth, lungs and respiratory system, as well as parts of the brain that will affect cravings for nicotine.
In the study described in Preventive Medicine, participants were all long time smokers who wanted to quit smoking. They were randomly assigned into one of two groups.
The control group was given acupuncture treatments that had nothing to do with the areas that affect smoking. The experimental group was given acupuncture treatments meant to assist in smoking cessation.

Interestingly, the experimental subjects reported having less desire to smoke and also actually decreased their amount of smoking than the control group.
But the experimenters didn’t rely on the word of the participants alone. They also tested the blood of each group for chemicals that are left in the body when a person smokes, and those tests also confirmed that the experimental subjects had smoked less.
In fact, over time, twice as many of the experimental subjects were able to quit smoking altogether in comparison to the control group.  The experimenters stress the importance of several factors when reproducing these results. They say that it is important for the patient to receive acupuncture treatments for smoking cessation a minimum of twice per week for three weeks in order of the treatment to be fully effective.

Our patients are also taught how to perform self-acupressure on their ears in order to reinforce the treatment and to help cravings to pass.  Sometimes we use herbs and we can use medication depending on our consultation with you we do custom programs.

It is recommended that patients use acupuncture in addition to other methods such as nicotine replacement and/or if they choose we have programs that combine Eastern and Western Medicine to get you to STOP Smoking.  We guarantee our results!
It seems that in the worse case, even if a patient doesn’t quit smoking by using acupuncture, medication or a combination of treatments we help a person to greatly reduce the amount they smoke.  Come in for your personalized program and join our patients that have stopped their addictions.

But any efforts that are made to quit smoking can only improve a person’s health in the long run.

Our fees are simple and affordable for everyone.  Insurance may also pay part or all of it.  Good health doesn’t cost it pays.

This page goes over the fundamentals on infertility nutrition and how it relates to  Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

In our office we have an excellent success in infertility for men and women.  The treatment of Acupuncture needs to be added to this nutritional guide.