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Dr. Timothy Voll DC
Voll Chiropractic Clinic
Where Did You Grow Up?
Illinois
Physician Biography:
Master level Certification in Nutritional Response Testing
Specialties and Strengths:
Nutritional Response Technique
Continuing Education Classes Attended:
Many
Techniques and Services Used in Our Office:
NRT
Hair Analysis
Saliva Testing
Office Hours and Contact Information:
Two story medical office by a Highland Park Bank and Trust
Voll Chiropractic Clinic
480 Elm Place
Highland Park, IL
60035
(847) 432-2520
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Janine Jozwiak M.S., L.Ac.
Nature’s Balance Acupuncture
Where Did You Grow Up?
Illinois
Physician Biography:
Janine Jozwiak earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Applied Psychology from Loyola University and a Master of Science degree in Counseling from George Williams College. Janine spent several years in private practice providing individual counseling to children and adults.
Janine left the health care field for a short period during which time she was a Project Director at Sears, Roebuck and Company. During this time, she directed a team of 20 project managers and the Quality Assurance organization accountable for successfully delivering an $82 million portfolio of projects for Home Services and Corporate Systems.
As a Project Director at Sears, Janine utilized her understanding of people to help them reach their highest personal potential while delivering impressive results for the company.
In 2002, Janine returned to the health care field and earned a Masters in Acupuncture from the Midwest College of Oriental Medicine. During this three year, 2,000+ hour, intensive program, Janine learned Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) “Zang Fu” system of physiology, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment strategy. In addition to all the Chinese Medicine coursework, the curriculum provided a solid foundation in needle technique, traditional accessory modalities, and the Western sciences such as anatomy, physiology, neurology and pharmacology. Janine also spent over 600 hours in the Midwest College’s student clinics. In the clinics, Janine was able to gain invaluable experience treating a wide range of medical conditions. While building her knowledge and skills, Janine was also able to fine-tune her patient/healer sensitivities.
Janine graduated from the Midwest College program Summa Cum Laude and immediately passed the National Board exam and became a licensed Acupuncturist in the State of Illinois.
In July 2007, Janine opened Nature’s Balance Acupuncture in Crystal Lake, Illinois. Nature’s Balance mission is to help as many people as possible in their quest for optimum health. In order to accomplish this mission, Janine works to educate her patients as well as the surrounding communities on the benefits of Oriental Medicine so that they may, in turn, educate others.
Janine has received extensive training from a master in a 2,500 year old method of acupuncture called “The Balance Method”. This method uses the strongest of all 2,000+ points found on the body in order to achieve amazing results, with pain relief often occurring within seconds. Over a series of treatments, long lasting relief can be achieved approximately 80% of the time.
Janine lives in Woodstock with her husband Dan and their 2 cats, Biscuit and Mafdet. Janine is a yoga enthusiast and in her spare time, likes to garden, rollerblade, bike, hike and photograph wildlife and nature.
Specialties and Strengths:
Janine is also a member of the prestigious Foundation for Wellness Professionals. The Foundation of Wellness Professionals is a national non-profit organization composed of health care providers who educate their communities on wellness and disease prevention. Janine has received advanced training in managing women’s issues, as well as stress reduction methods and nutrition. Lastly, Janine is a Reiki Master and is trained in the art of Jin Shin Jyutsu. Jin Shin Jyutsu releases tensions in the body, which cause various symptoms to appear.
Continuing Education Classes Attended:
All Dr. Janet Lang Seminars
Techniques and Services Used in Our Office:
Thermography
The Balance Method
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) “Zang Fu” system of physiology, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment strategy.
Reiki Master
Advanced training in managing women’s issues, as well as stress reduction methods and nutrition.
Acupuncture
Scalp Acupuncture
Office Hours and Contact Information:
Nature’s Balance Acupuncture
260 E. Congress Parkway, Suite D
Crystal Lake, IL 60014
(815) 788-8383
www.naturesbalanceacupuncture.com
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Dr. Mark Freund DC
Natural Care Chiropractic
Where are you from?
Wisconsin
Physician Biography:
DC, BCAO, ND, DACBN, CTN
Specialties and Strengths:
Nutrition testing for all ages and issues: Athletes, children on “The Spectrum”, ADHD, ADD, chronic unresolvable problems.
Continuing Education Classes Attended:
Trained in Nutrition Response Testing by Dr. Freddie Ulan
Techniques and Services Used in Our Office:
Nutrition Response Testing, Chiropractic, Upper Cervical Chiropractic (Atlas Orthogonal), Acupuncture, Advanced Clinical Massage
Office Hours and Contact Information:
Located in Linden Plaza in Lindenhurst Illinois just a few miles west of I94 and Gurnee on grand Avenue (132). Open MTWFS.
Natural Care Chiropractic
2118 East Grand Ave
Lindenhurst, IL
60046
847-265-0600
naturalcarechiropractic.org
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Dr. Heather Wisniewski DC
Restorative Healthcare P.C.
Where are you from?
Illinois
Physician Biography:
Dr. Heather Wisniewski has been a licensed Chiropractor since 2001. Dr. Heather’s interest in healing has taken her beyond a traditional Chiropractic practice.
Dr. Wisniewski uses a “whole person approach” when taking care of her patients. By combining the very best hands-on-technique, state of the art physiotherapy procedures, and providing the newest and best natural vitamins and mineral supplements on the market today, Dr. Wisniewski is able to help you to accelerate your journey to good health.
Specialties and Strengths:
Dr. Heather specializes in NeuroEmotional Techinique, Meridian Stress Assessment, Allergy Eliminations, CranioSacral Therapy and utilizes both lumbar and cervical decompression in the office. Our office also employs a part time chiropractic doctor who does acupuncture and NeuroStructural Technique. We look to provide a whole body approach to healing.
Continuing Education Classes Attended:
Dr. Heather has attended seminars in NeuroEmotional Technique, CranioSacral Therapy, Herbal Therapy, B.E.S.T, and BioSet Allergy Eliminations just to name a few.
Techniques and Services Used in Our Office:
Services include:
Spinal Decompression (cervical and lumbar)
NeuroEmotional Technique
Meridian Stress Assessment
Allergy Eliminations
Nutritional Counseling
CranioSacral Therapy
Acupuncture
Massage Therapy
Office Hours and Contact Information:
Our office is located a half mile west of 355 on Roosevelt Road. We are in building 7 of the Roosevelt Glen Corporate center which are a set of brick buildings with copper colored windows.
Our hours are Tuesdays through Fridays from 9-5 and Saturday from 9-1.
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Restorative Healthcare P.C.
751 Roosevelt Rd., Suite 100
Glen Ellyn, IL
60137
Phone (630)942-1234 and Fax (630)942-8855 or via email at tara@reshc.com
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Dr. Robert Priebe DC
First Choice Family Health
Where are you from?
Southeastern Michigan
Physician Biography:
Bachelors of Science Clinical Nutrition and Food Service MGT
Bachelors of Science Human Biology
Doctorate Chiropractic Medicine
Certified Acupuncturist
Certified Golf Fitness Therapist
Specialties and Strengths:
13 Years Practicing nutrition for many medical conditions, weight loss, sports improvement and for the elderly populations.
Continuing Education Classes Attended:
Many Nutrition Classes
Orthopedic Seminars
Chiropractic Techniques
Physical Therapy and Rehab
Acupuncture
Collateral Meridian therapy
Techniques and Services Used in Our Office:
Physical Therapy
Chiropractic Medicine
Multiple Nutrition Programs
Acupuncture
Auriculotherapy
Physiotherapy
Office Hours and Contact Information:
We are located in the Coventry Plaza strip mall at Berkshire Dr and Virginia Rd.
We are available Mon-Thurs 9a-1p; 3p-630p and Fri 9a-1p.
We accept new patients within 24 hours. Many insurance plans accepted.
35 Berkshire Dr. Ste 12
Crystal Lake, IL
60014
(815) 477-7804
info@drpriebe.com
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Dr. Jill Balla Shaw DC
JBS Wellness
Where are you from?
Michigan
Physician Biography:
Dr. Jill Balla Shaw earned her Bachelor of Science at the University of Northern Michigan in Marquette,
MI and her Doctor of Chiropractic at Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, IA. She has completed advanced training in therapeutic nutrition, pediatrics, natural fertility, and prenatal care, and is certified in the Webster Technique. Dr. Shaw is licensed in Illinois and Michigan and is a member of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association.
Specialties and Strengths:
I have completed advanced training in therapeutic nutrition, pediatrics, natural fertility, and prenatal care, and is certified in the Webster Technique. My specialties are primarily in Women’s Health from PMS, menstrual disorders, PCOS, infertility, prenatal, postpartum to menopause. I also do a lot of work with Fibromyalgia and autoimmune disorders. In addition to that, I work with pediatrics both nutritionally and chiropractically from infants to teens.
Continuing Education Classes Attended:
All of Dr. Lang’s seminars
Most of Angela Hywood’s seminars including phone seminars.
Intl Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA): Prenatal care and Webster technique cert.
ICA Council on Chirpractic Ped: Neurodevelopment of a Child, Cranio-Sacral Therapy for infants, Adjusting the Pregnant Patient
Techniques and Services Used in Our Office:
Nutritional Therapy
EAV
Hair Analysis
Salvia Panels
Chiropractic Services using:
Gonstead
Diversified
Activator
Thompson
Webster
Massage Therapy
Office Hours and Contact Information:
JBS Wellness is located on the SE corner of Hunt Club & Washington in Gurnee, approx a mile south of Gurnee Mills. We are in the Hunt Club Professional Bldg next to the National City Bank. It is a one level brick building
Our hours of operation are
M-Th 10am - 7pm
Fri 10am - 3pm
6475 Washington Street Ste.104
Gurnee, IL
60031
(847) 855-8900
DrJBShaw@comcast.net
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Dr. Janet Horton
Horton Chiropractic
Where are you from?
Northern ChicagoLand Area
Physician Biography:
Dr. Janet Horton is a chiropractor and acupuncturist in private practice in Des Plaines, Illinois. Described as a holistic practitioner, Dr. Horton specializes in hard-to-treat chronic conditions like asthma, fibromyalgia, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure; along with offering traditional chiropractic services.
Additionally Dr. Horton is the author of the Live Well Metabolic Makeover, a health and wellness program that out-performs every other weight-loss program on the market. Her clinic, Horton Wellness & Chiropractic, is a state-of-the-art chiropractic and wellness clinic. Her objective is to provide the high quality natural care using cutting edge research ideas, state-of-the-art technology, and time-tested acupuncture.
Specialties and Strengths:
Our office specializes in helping people overcome diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and weight problems.
Continuing Education Classes Attended:
Nutrition
Adjusting
Metabolic Syndrome
Weight Management
Techniques and Services Used in Our Office:
Chiropractic
Acupuncture
Nutrition
Physical Therapy
Office Hours and Contact Information:
M-Th 9-1 and 3-6
Fri 9-1
960 Rand Road, #225
Des Plaines, IL
60016
(847) 296-3877
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Dr. Annette Schippel DC
Dr. Annette Schippel graduated from Logan College of Chiropractic in 1998. Several months later she and her husband opened Schippel Chiropractic, a family practice in Jacksonville, Illinois. Her passion for pediatrics and nutrition has drawn from a patient population largely consisting of children and women, both for traditional chiropractic as well as clinical nutrition services.
Dr. Annette has obtained countless hours of post-graduate training in pediatrics, sports health, nutrition, and phytotherapy. Her expertise on these subjects has not only contributed to the success of her holistic practice, but it has earned her the role as a respected public educator in her community. She now teaches a course several times a year at Illinois College on the topic of ‘Nutrition for the Athlete’. In addition, Dr. Annette has been an active Nutritional Consultant and Educator at The Nutrition Clinic in Chesterfield, MO since 2006.
Dr. Annette began studying Restorative Endocrinology™ with Dr. Janet Lang in 2002. Recognizing her talent, Dr. Lang welcomed Dr. Annette as an Associate Consultant at Lang Integrative Health Services in 2006. Since then, Dr. Annette has been consulting health care practitioners throughout the country on the testing, nutritional, and non-invasive methods to restore endocrine health. Her success with these methods and gift as a teacher led to her natural progression as an instructor for this introductory hair analysis course.
In addition to her successful chiropractic, nutritional, and consulting practices, Dr. Annette is happily married to a fellow chiropractor and the proud mother of four children ages 8 through 19 years.
FDA Reviewing Arthritis Drugs for inflammation, Possible Links to Cancer
By Pete Wisniewski
According to the Associated Press on July 7th 2008, The FDA is investigating a group of popular arthritis drugs made by Schering-Plough Corp, Abbott Laboratories, and other companies whether they increase the risk of cancer in young peoples. The FDA said it has received 30 reports of children developing cancer while taking the drugs over the last 10 years. Lymphomas, leukemia, melanoma and cancers of various organs were reported.
Abbott Labs’ Humira, Schering-Plough’s Remicade, Wyeth’s Cimzia, and Amgen Incare’s Enbrel, are the anti-inflammatory drugs under review. They are given to children to treat inflammation disorders such as Crohn’s disease and Juvenal arthritis. 70,000 to 100,000 children in the United States have juvenile idiopathic arthritis which in past years has put children in wheelchairs.
Abbott’s Humira and Schering-Plough’s Remicade were their best selling drugs in excess of $4.65 billion dollars in sales.*
Safe Alternative Strategies to Control Inflammation- The Elimination Diet
Understanding inflammation is important in an array of different situations. Dr. Stuart White recommends starting with a forgotten technology, the elimination diet. He says, “The inability of the body to manage inflammatory levels of prostaglandins and cytokines causing immune hyperactivity is one of the challenges that faces us in modern society. There are more and more things that cause reaction and inflammation to burden the body attempting to seek balance. Usually by age 40 there begins to be chronic elevated inflammatory levels resulting in joint and muscle (musculo-skeletal) conditions. Adrenal hormones are increased to attempt to balance the levels of inflammation resulting in anxiety and panic syndromes and finally general adrenal exhaustion.
The ability to buffer acidity (pH) through proper ionic calcium supplementation is one of the most important mechanisms that we must support in our body. By keeping the body alkaline and balanced we may reduce in the inflammatory responses resulting from acidosis (abnormal condition of excess acid in the body).
Another solution in reducing inflammation is to unburden the body of its chronic immune burdens, especially that of allergies. Many environmental allergies that we suffer from are actually secondary allergies being driven by primary allergic responses, principally to foods. It has always been obvious in clinical practice that when basic food allergies are corrected environmental sensitivities vanish. For example by simply taking a person off of a basic food allergy like milk or wheat oftentimes there will no longer be an environmental sensitivity to cats or dogs. The basic four food allergies are wheat, milk, corn and soy (followed by beef, tomato, peanut, chocolate). The hypo-antigenic diet consists of eliminating these eight foods.
Usually within three days of elimination chronic inflammation reduces and the elevated adrenal responses down regulate. Although change will continue for months after eliminating a basic food allergy, change is felt immediately, sometimes as increased energy, clarity of mind, digestive wellness, and a reduction of symptoms. By simply reducing these items experimentally for two weeks at a time and then reintroducing the allergen it is apparent as to whether a food allergy is occurring.
Upon re-introduction of an eliminated food allergy one may notice an immediate inflammatory response such as a rash, itching or burning eyes. It may also cause aching in the body. Sometimes two or three days later after the re-introduction of the food allergen a virus or cold or immune issue may occur, which means that the food allergy caused inflammation in the gut lining which lost its ability to be sealed and impermeable letting resident virus in the lumen of the intestine to leak into the blood. Then the body has to manage a viral process.
In practice this is been so successful that I no longer respect the environmental allergies until after these basic food allergies have been eliminated. Once the inflammatory levels of the body have had an opportunity to normalize then one may determine what allergies are actually real and what allergies were just secondary to an elevated inflammatory system.**”
Tools of the Trade
Where do you start when treating inflammation? How long should the program continue for? When starting a diet to degrade inflammation, diet must be first and foremost. The following can be used as a step by step outline for dealing with systemic inflammation and should be used for informational purposes only.
- Remove offenders (The basic four food allergies are wheat, milk, corn and soy (followed by beef, tomato, peanut, chocolate)
- Standard Process’ Detoxification Program for three weeks
- Strengthen Digestion using Zypan or Multizyme and Gastrex
- Note: Zymex II can be use with Multizyme if HCL Sensitivity Test comes up positive.
- Clean Up Fungal Overgrowth
Note: The only way to get rid of yeast is to starve it by consuming nutritional yeast (Zymex). After the yeast dies, use Spanish Black Radish to clean up the bowel.
- Remove Parasites
Note: Check the color of the feces through inquiry- too dark means gut lining inflamed and possibly seeping blood (seek immediate medical attention) - too light indicates insufficient bile from gallbladder
- Parasite Protocol:
- Multizyme: 3×2/day
- Garlic 500mg tablets: 1×3/day
- Lact-Enz: 3×2/day between meals
- Wormwood Complex- 2×2/day before meals with 1 OPC Synergy
- Zymex II: Promotes protein metabolism, “enzyme that digests insect tissue” Made out of defatted fig and almond bran, papain, bromelain, amylase, lipase, cellulose, and ficin.
- If gallbladder suspect:
- A-F Beatafood: 5×3/day Used to increase bile flow. Great liver supporting product, in high doses (12-18) can stop gallbladder attack.
- Choline: 1×3/day
- 1 teaspoon Olive Oil twice per day
- Parasite Protocol:
- Add anti-inflammatory herbs like Boswellia Complex from MediHerb.
- Strengthen Gut Lining after offenders have been removed.
Note: Not all at once initially
Note: Gut lining issues will put excessive stress on the Adrenal Glands- According to Dr. Bruce Bond, a weak gut lining can enable undigested proteins to enter the blood stream and cause an array of inflammatory processes. His Gut Lining Protocol is as follows:
- Cataplex A-C: 2×3/day Natural antibiotic, which stimulates and supports the body’s immune system in digesting bacteria. Dr. Royal Lee’s first adrenal support product.
- Gastro-Fiber: 3×2/day Helps move the bowels and maintain healthy lining in the GI Tract.
- L-Glutamine: 1,500 mg/day
- Chlorophyll Perles: 1×2/day empty stomach.
- Dermatrophin PMG: 1×2/day Protomorphogen for skin disorders, especially epithelial tissue. Will act as a dummy antigen giving skin tissues time for healing.
- Lact-Enz: 3×2/day between meals. Probiotics’ lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidobacterium longum used for GI tract health
- Trace Minerals B12: 1×3/day Supports myriad enzyme systems
- According to Dr. Bruce Bond, a weak gut lining can enable undigested proteins to enter the blood stream and cause an array of inflammatory processes. His Gut Lining Protocol is as follows:
In Conclution
Dr. Stuart White maintains, “As always, often time answers are simpler than we have suspected. Basic food allergies are oftentimes the result of genetic predispositions, blood types and unique metabolism. Reducing inflammation will lengthen our lives, reduce discomfort, especially of the musculo-skeletal nature, and spare the immune system to be active in ways that protect us from more important issues than chronic inflammation.**” Please ask your physician if this information can benefit you in any way.
*Associated Press Article Link