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Herbal Treatment

Services & Fees

The services of Salmon Creek Clinic include several modalities used by the doctors to tailor a treatment protocol for each patient as an individual. Learn about our diagnosis process, services, and Salmon Creek Clinic fees below.

Diagnosis Process

Thorough Health History  | The initial intake with a Naturopathic Doctor is usually about 1½ to 2 hours in length and includes a detailed history. Your Salmon Creek Clinic Naturopathic Doctor will take the time to find out about your family history, your lifestyle, the stressors in your life, past medical history, history of accidents or injuries and the significant events in your life that have affected your health or well being. Often we will use questionnaires to ensure our patients are aware of the factors that may be affecting your current health status.

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Nutritional Analysis  | Understanding your nutritional status, eating habits and patterns and the type of food that you eat on a regular is an important part of the naturopathic assessment. Naturopathic Doctors will often take the time to assess the impact that diet is having on health and your body’s ability to handle the food that you are eating.

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Physical Examinations  | Salmon Creek Clinic Naturopathic Doctors are trained to do complete physical exams as use them as a standard part of an assessment. As your health changes or as acute situations arise, we will use aspects of the physical examination to aid in diagnosis and assessment of your health concerns. Having a complete physical exam on yearly basis is an essential part preventative health care. Naturopathic Doctors often take the time to ensure that the “small” symptoms are identified and addressed before they become a “bigger” problem.

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Traditional and Functional Assessments  | Pulse and tongue evaluations, organ reflux analysis, acoustic cardiography, body fluid evaluations, iris patterns, and other traditional and functional assessments as done as part of our comprehensive naturopathic evaluations.  These techniques often reveal chronic, underlying disturbances and that we want to address to help in restoring health.

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Comprehensive Laboratory Testing  | Standard laboratory testing, including urine analysis, blood work and saliva testing, is an essential aspect of naturopathic services.  Standard laboratory testing is used to provide further information for a complete medical assessment.

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Previous Medical Reports and Diagnostic Testing  | All medical reports, such as MRIs, X-rays or scans are valuable assets that a naturopathic doctor will use during their assessment of your health concerns. Naturopathic Doctors will refer to another medical health professional when appropriate to ensure that all patients receive the best quality health care possible and that all required information is available in order to fully understand the root causes of a patient’s health concerns.

Office Visit

Time with the doctor in the clinic, usually 45 to 90 minutes, with other lengths available depending on type. During a visit, the doctor will discuss your health history and current concerns, do any relevant exams and treatments (such as joint manipulation or acupuncture), and create a treatment protocol or reassess your current treatments.

Dietary Evaluation

Our doctors a traditional naturopathic method of dietary intolerance evaluation to determine what foods should be eliminated from the diet to improve digestion for a given individual. Lab tests can be ordered to assess current nutritional depletion or for allergy testing.

Tinctures & Supplements

To help the healing process, our doctors use a variety of medicines: homeopathy, botanical tinctures, dietary supplements, and (occasionally) prescription drugs. Ideally, the most gentle options are utilized first. 

Acupuncture

Dr. Jared Zeff is a licensed acupuncturist, and employs acupuncture as a treatment to help with a wide variety of health concerns.

Physical Medicine

Examples of this are adjustments, Bowen treatments, and electrotherapy.

Hydrotherapy

While there are several types of hydrotherapy treatments, we utilize constitutional hydrotherapy in treating chronic illness and for its  acute immune system boosting results.

All patients are given instructions on how to do treatments at home, or this treatment can be given at the clinic with the addition of a sine wave machine to maximize effectiveness.

Services & Modalities

Fees

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