Dr. David Palacios, Naturopath Hazel Dell North Washington

Call me Dr. David. I’m a board-certified Naturopathic Physician specializing in acute and chronic pain resolution with natural therapies. I also have a passion for taking care of families in a holistic primary care setting here in my Portland, Oregon office.

After earning my Bachelor’s Degree in Biology with a Minor in Music, I completed my four-year medical training at The National College of Natural Medicine. I also completed an extended residency, which centered on acute and chronic pain resolution, hormone balance, pediatrics, and general primary care.

A foundational piece of my success in treating and healing is found in the Six Naturopathic Principles as follows:

• First Do No Harm Utilize the most natural, least invasive and least toxic therapies.
• The Healing Power of Nature Trust in the body’s inherent wisdom to heal itself.
• Identify and Treat the Causes Look beyond the symptoms to the underlying cause.
• Doctor as Teacher Educate patients on the steps to achieve and maintain health.
• Treat the Whole Person View the body as an integrated whole in all its physical and spiritual dimensions.
• Prevention Focus on overall health, wellness and disease prevention.

I take a detailed, patient-centered, natural and holistic approach to bring about optimal wellness and function to the individual. I believe natural therapies should be the first-line defense in treating illness and disease and should be exhausted before pharmaceutical intervention is ever considered. If patients are currently taking pharmaceutical medication, my goal is to work these patients off of pharmaceutical intervention safely.

I utilize a variety of conventional and naturopathic treatment modalities to establish optimal health and wellness in my patients best. Some of these include Neural Therapy, Ozone Therapy, Prolozone Therapy, botanical/herbal medicine, homeopathy, dry needle therapy, naturopathic manipulation techniques, nutritional counseling, and hydrotherapy.

I offer…

• An alternative to knee surgery
• An alternative to shoulder surgery
• An alternative to back surgery
• An alternative to neck surgery
• An alternative to carpal tunnel surgery
• An alternative to amputation due to complications from diabetes

What Type Of Ailments Does A Naturopath In Hazel Dell North Washington Treat?

I’m a primary care doctor specializing in health and wellness for my patients via naturopathic medicine, which is mainly natural medicine treatments. Naturopathic physicians strive to take a holistic approach to health care and physical medicine. As a naturopathic doctor in Portland, Oregon I offer services covering a wide variety of healthcare issues. You can see a partial list of some of them in the text below. To learn more about how we might work together contact me and we’ll set up and appointment to discuss your options.

Natural, holistic treatments are available to you for just about any disease/condition. What follows is just a sampling of the many health challenges I treat on a regular basis:

Digestive/GI Health

• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Ulcers
• Crohn’s Disease
• Ulcerative Colitis
• Celiac Disease
• Food Intolerance
• Allergies
• Chronic Diarrhea Or Constipation
• Chronic Nausea
• Acid Reflux/Gerd
• Hepatitis
• Candida/Yeast Over Growth
• Gall Bladder Disease

Cardiopulmonary

• High Blood Pressure
• High Cholesterol
• Heart Failure
• Stroke
• Asthma
• Pneumonia
• Emphysema
• Bronchitis
• Lung Cancer Supportive Therapies

Autoimmune

• Multiple Sclerosis
• Lyme Disease
• Grave’s Disease
• Hashimoto’s Disease
• Psoriasis
• Lupus
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Type 1 Diabetes
• Fibromyalgia

Genitourinary

• Acute Urinary Infections
• Cystitis
• Kidney Stones
• Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
• Prostate Cancer Supportive Therapies

Ozone IV Therapy For Patients Living In Hazel Dell North Washington 98665

What Is Ozone IV Therapy?

Ozone (O3) is an energized form of oxygen, which contains three atoms of oxygen rather than the two atoms we normally breathe. Ozone is the second most potent sterilizer in the world and can be used to destroy bacteria, viruses, and odors.

Ozone is 1,000 times more effective as a disinfectant than chlorine! Interestingly, ozone occurs quite readily in nature, most often as a result of lightning strikes occurring during thunderstorms.

Ozone’s ability to heal occurs when it’s broken down and metabolized in the body; this initiates a cascade of events to bring about health and wellness.

How Does It Work?

For the patient, this experience is similar to donating blood. After the blood is drawn, it’s quickly super oxygenated with ozone and dripped back through the same IV line into their system.

While this use to be a manual process I now employ the assistance of a device known as a Ten-Pass Ozone Machine. Using this fantastic machine I can administer ten times the treatment of a single pass, which can be given within 60-90 minutes. The machine pulls blood into a sterile glass receptacle, then rapidly returns the blood to the body. Ten-pass is a very powerful, safe, and effective treatment.

The process has shown to increase oxygen utilization, regulate the immune system, vastly increase the rate of metabolism, stimulate the production of ATP and other energy molecules, stimulate regenerative cells and growth factors, as well as enhance circulation.

The third oxygen atom of ozone makes it extremely reactive. This atom readily attaches itself to other molecules. When contaminants such as bacteria or viruses make contact with ozone, it creates a minuscule hole in the cell wall. Once the cell wall is destroyed, the bacteria will be unable to survive. This process is called oxidation.

Is Ozone Safe?

When used medically by trained health care providers, ozone has a safer track record than the use of ibuprofen. Ozone essentially reverts back to oxygen after it’s used. This makes it a very environmentally friendly oxidant and very safe to use.

It’s highly recommended you only receive ozone treatments from professionals who’ve gone through the proper ozone training and can show you their credentials.

What Are The Medical Applications?

In 1929, the directors of the most important hospitals in the USA published the book Ozone and its Therapeutic Action, which lists 114 diseases and their treatment through the application of ozone.

Ozone IV Therapy can significantly improve many illnesses, including:

• Viral Pneumonia
• Fungal/Yeast Infection
• Chronic Fatigue
• Wound Infections
• Septicemia (Staph, Strep, Pneumococcus)
• Recurrent Skin Infections
• E-coli
• Psoriasis
• Heart Conditions
• Peripheral Vascular Disease
• Gangrene
• Vascular Headaches
• Many Chronic Pain Conditions

Prolozone Therapy – Appointments For Hazel Dell North Washington Open Now

What Is Prolozone Therapy?

Prolozone is a form of non-surgical ligament reconstruction and is a permanent treatment for chronic pain. Prolozone is a connective tissue injection therapy of collagen-producing substances and ozone gas, which can reconstruct damaged or weakened connective tissue in and around joints.

These substances are injected into the damaged connective tissue in and around a joint to rebuild the damaged areas. By repairing the connective tissue, this is all that’s needed to resolve chronic pain permanently.

How Does It Work?

Ozone is a highly reactive molecule, and when injected into a joint capsule it can stimulate the fibroblastic (or regenerative) joint repairing abilities. This occurs when ozone is metabolized into different peroxides, which stimulates and enhances the growth factors in the surrounding areas for tissue regeneration and stabilization.

It’s important to understand what the word Prolozone means. Prolozone is derived from the term ‘ozone‘ and the Latin word ‘proli,’ which means “to regenerate or rebuild”. It literally means rebuilding tissues with ozone.

‘Prolo’ is short for proliferation because the treatment causes the growth, or formation, of new ligament tissue in areas where it’s become weak.

To sum up, Prolozone is a nonsurgical, injection-based treatment, which in many cases permanently resolves chronic pain patterns and can regenerate damaged tissues.

Medical Uses For This Type Of Therapy

In 1929, the directors of the most important hospitals in the U.S.A. published the book Ozone and Its Therapeutic Action, which lists 114 diseases and their treatment through the application of ozone.

Herniated disc therapy has a 60-80% success rate using just ozone/O2 injections. This series of injections has equal or better efficacy when compared to back surgeries. They also have the added benefit of no recuperation time and a small amount of cost. Disc Herniation isn’t the only application. Ozone is also extremely useful in treating spinal stenosis, neuropathic pain, and general chronic pain patterns.

What Can I Expect After Treatment?

You’ll notice an increase in function with increased strength and stability. Expect a decrease in pain and stiffness and an increase in mobility. Physical examinations by your practitioner will confirm your progress as well as imaging studies (if necessary) to visualize the regeneration of tissues.

How Many Treatments Do I Need?

Similar to Neural Therapy and standard Prolotherapy, clinically we see the best results with three visits of ozone therapy one to two weeks apart. Ozone therapy is virtually painless and often can give you immediate relief from your back pain with no recovery time.

Prolozone Therapy is an effective alternative to knee surgery, back surgery, shoulder surgery, rotator cuff surgery, spinal stenosis surgery.

Neural Therapy Now Available In Hazel Dell North Washington, Clark County

What Is Neural Therapy?

Neural Therapy (NT) is a treatment of dysfunction(s) within the autonomic nervous system (ANS). These dysfunctions in the ANS are called interference fields.

These interference fields are electrophysiologically unstable and emit abnormal neurological signals to which the ANS reacts.

This creates myofascial pain patterns (muscle and fascia) and other pain syndromes. Virtually all orthopedic medical conditions have an ANS component, at least in part.

How Does Neural Therapy Work?

Neural Therapy involves intradermal and subcutaneous injections of scars, glands, trigger points, acupuncture points, vascular structures, ligaments, and autonomic ganglia with an anesthetic called Procaine.

What Is Procaine?

Procaine is the only anesthetic in its class, which when injected into the tissues will break down into two natural products (PABA and DEAE). What this means for your body is no chemical breakdown, or liver detox must occur.

These molecules help take your body from what we call a sympathetic ANS state (go go go, stress, fight or flight, inflammatory state) to a parasympathetic ANS state (rest, digest, relaxation, healing, calm, collected, and anti-inflammatory state).

Maintaining a parasympathetic nervous system state is vital to your ability to heal in any capacity.

What Are The Medical Applications Of Neural Therapy?

Neural Therapy has both local and systemic effects to help the body reach optimal health and function. When used for chronic pain and inflammation from physical ailments, Neural Therapy helps reverse pain patterns by decreasing inflammation. This allows the brain to disassociate the areas of chronic pain bringing hyperactive nerve endings back to standard resting potential.

Neural Therapy is also helpful with pain created from scar tissue and adhesions by resolving scar tissue and restructuring the connective tissue around the old injury.

This type of therapy is also beneficial in treating other ailments of the body including, but not limited to:

• Dysmenorrhea
• Angina
• Mental Illness Including:
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Bi-polar
• And Many Other Ailments Of The Body

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