Can Acupuncture Help With Shoulder Pain?
Written by Dr. Zhiling Trowbridge Dr. Trowbridge is a family medicine physician and practices functional medicine and medical acupuncture in Grand Rapids, MI. She provides medical consultation and treatments for patients struggling with chronic disease, pain, and or other mood disorders including, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Background About 1 in 4 Americans experience shoulder pain […]
Integrative Medicine: A Holistic Approach to Patient Care
In modern healthcare, patients and physicians alike are recognizing the value of integrative medicine—a holistic approach that combines conventional medicine with complementary and alternative therapies. This model emphasizes treating the whole person, addressing the mind, body, and spirit to foster optimal health outcomes. What Is Integrative Medicine? Integrative medicine is the fusion of conventional medical […]
Feeling Overmedicated for Your Health?
Prescription medications when properly prescribed can improve many patient’s quality of life and act as a safeguard to lowering the long-term effects of common diseases or more severe mental health illnesses: such as heart disease, diabetes, strokes, major depression, bipolar disorder, and panic attacks however, if individuals take multiple medications for various reasons at once […]
Acute Healing and Acupuncture – Can Acupuncture Help with Acute Injuries?
Above are photos (photo permission received) of patients at the Uplift Health Clinic (an integrative medicine and acupuncture clinic located in Grand Rapids, MI) who have been treated for acute injuries using acupuncture. A medical acupuncture clinic may not be the first place you stop at after sustaining such a major injury but it might […]
5 Steps to Gut Healing — The 5R Approach – Part 2
5R approach Replace The ‘Replace’ step is reviewing the digestive enzyme needs of the body. The stomach produces certain enzymes (pepsin, hydrochloric acid) to break down food to absorb important nutrients for the body. Hypochlorhydria is when the stomach is not producing enough hydrochloric acid. There are different causes for hypochlorhydria which include infections by […]
What health conditions can benefit from taking fish oil? Part 2
There’s so many different studies being done on fish oil that it is sometimes hard to keep up on why to use fish oil, when to use it, and exactly how much. See Part 1 for details on how to calculate the milligram dosage of a fish oil supplement. Cardiovascular disease The data is mixed […]
What should I know about choosing a fish oil supplement? Part 1
Part 1. Fish oil is a popular choice in the supplement aisle. What does it do and who could benefit from its use? First, the way the fish oil is prepared is important. The natural triglyceride form of fish oil is much better absorbed than the ethyl ester formulations. Quality control is also […]
Plantar Fasciitis and Foot Pain – Can acupuncture help with my foot pain?
Plantar fasciitis, ankle sprain, ankle injury, Achilles heel tendinopathy, peroneal tendinitis are all common types of foot and ankle injuries. Acupuncture is frequently used as an adjunct to support healing and pain control in these circumstances. Most often patients will seek an acupuncturist when their foot pain has reached a more chronic or severe level […]
Coming soon!
Putting together the nuts and bolts of a clinic and setting up virtual shop takes some time! I hope some of the content I already have up is helpful for those who are anticipating Uplift Health’s opening. The prospective date to start to see patients will be January 2022. I will start to open up […]
Free 15 minute Consults
Dr. Zhiling Trowbridge is booking free 15-minute consults via telemedicine, time slots are now open. Learn more about how you can improve your chronic health condition, chronic pain, or develop your understanding of integrative medicine and holistic health. We can do a basic review of your health condition and learn more about how complementary and alternative […]
