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The connection between sports medicine and naturopathy
Naturopaths can play a key role in providing world-class sports medicine and treatment. Naturopaths work with athletes of all abilities to achieve and maintain optimal performance and recovery. After suffering a sports-related herniated disc, Canadian Olympic rower Rachelle Viinberg turned to her team's naturopath for a treatment plan. Not only did Viinberg recover from her injury, she and her team also won the 2012 Olympic silver medal in rowing. Viinberg now uses her experience as an athlete, coupled with the tools she acquired as a naturopath at the naturopathic faculty. Viinberg's personal experience as an athlete with naturopathy is becoming increasingly common. …
The connection between sports medicine and naturopathy
Naturopaths can play a key role in providing world-class sports medicine and treatment. Naturopaths work with athletes of all abilities to achieve and maintain optimal performance and recovery.
After suffering a sports-related herniated disc, Canadian Olympic rower Rachelle Viinberg turned to her team's naturopath for a treatment plan.
Not only did Viinberg recover from her injury, she and her team also won the 2012 Olympic silver medal in rowing. Viinberg now uses her experience as an athlete, coupled with the tools she acquired as a naturopath at the naturopathic faculty.
Viinberg's personal experience as an athlete with naturopathy is becoming increasingly common.
Alternative practitioners are increasingly common throughout sports medicine delivery. Both occasional weekend warriors and professional athletes turn to alternative practitioners to:
- Verletzungsprävention
- Schnelle Erholung
- Ernährungsunterstützung
- Und um ihre Leistung zu verbessern
Athletes seeking a competitive edge tend to ask: What do the pros do?
Professional athletes are increasingly interested in naturopathy to find safer ways to fine-tune their performance. It is therefore no surprise that Dr. Mark Strom was invited by the NFL's Arizona Cardinals to join their medical staff.
"It's exciting to treat some of the most well-known athletes in the world. The [Cardinals'] management and medical staff noticed that many of their top players were seeking treatment from various naturopathic doctors in the Valley. They wanted to see what it was like to have a naturopathic doctor on staff and provide consistency to the team. I primarily offered sport-specific nutritional IVs, which were very well received by the players became. "Mark Strom, alternative practitionerGraduate, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine
After working with the Cardinals, Dr. Also current is the Arizona Diamondbacks MLB team.
Naturopaths offer many therapies to help with training, optimizing diet and nutrition, preventing injuries, and recovering.
Working with athletes is an important part of Dr. Aaron Wong's day at Butterfly Naturopathic in North Vancouver, BC. Dr. Wong believes that naturopathy is the ideal solution for athletes seeking athletic performance through optimal health.
"As someone who works with athletes, I help them harness their life force, will and desire to achieve the greatest expression of that potential. Sport provides the opportunity for self-exploration through mind, body and spirit. Naturopathy brings a holistic perspective to training, injury recovery and long-term health sustainability."Aaron Wong, alternative practitioner, RTC, BASc-Graduate, Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine
Masahiro Takakura, Naturopath, DC, LAc has an unwavering passion for helping athletes. He is the founder and sponsor of the Bastyr Sport Medicine Club (BSMC) and the first naturopathic doctor and chiropractor to travel with and treat MLB players for an entire season. He is currently a naturopathic and chiropractic consultant for the Seattle Mariners.