therapy Archives - Page 2 of 3 - Intuition Physician

10 Ways Grounding Can Directly Support Your Health During This Pandemic

Grounding, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

I’ve gotten lots of emails asking if grounding is a good idea as a way to boost health during this pandemic. The medical literature suggests the answer to this is a resounding “Yes!” for many reasons, probably more than you think. As you might know, most patients who suffer serious illness during Covid19 infection do so because of the body’s inflammatory response (the often referred to “cytokine storm” in the lung adds to this), subsequent hypoxia from lung inflammation, and hypercoagulation of the blood, leading to blood clots. These three reactions the body creates as a response to coronavirus …

10 Ways Grounding Can Directly Support Your Health During This Pandemic Read More »

Jun 1 2020

Trying It Out For You: Compression Therapy

Health Videos, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Therapeutic compression treatments have been around forever to help treat cardiovascular issues and lymphatic issues in the body… …but until now I have only seen them used in hospital settings. There is a new trend that offers compression therapy in a spa setting, where you can sit for a 30 or 60 minute period of time, wearing a garment that inflates (similar to a large blood pressure cuff) on and off, forcing blood and lymphatic fluids up the limbs. It’s called intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) and it’s something I’m familiar with because we put these exact same …

Trying It Out For You: Compression Therapy Read More »

Sep 16 2019

Trying It Out For You: A Salt Cave (aka Halotherapy)

Health Videos, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Halotherapy is simply the inhalation of aerosolized dry salts… …which is quickly becoming a very popular new therapy added to many spas. These salt therapy lounges can be very beautiful, with gorgeous Himalayan salt wall features and flowing loose salt over the floors to give the appearance of a salt cave, while plain old sodium chloride crystals (table salt, basically) are aerosolized into the room’s air for inhalation. These spas claim that halotherapy can improve respiratory allergies, fix chronic dermatologic skin issues like atopic dermatitis and psoriasis, and even decrease the frequency of upper respiratory infections. But …

Trying It Out For You: A Salt Cave (aka Halotherapy) Read More »

Jul 22 2019

What I Do To Stay Helathy When It’s Too Cold To Exercise Outside

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

The weather is getting unbearably cold for me, so I thought today I would share with you what I do whenever it’s too cold (or I’m too lazy) to exercise I hit my local Y and sit in the sauna to reap very similar benefits to exercising, but without the hassle! Medically proven! Now this is a healing modality I can really get behind, because I LOVE HEAT. And I love love love anything that boosts circulation â€” like grounding, sauna, steam room, hot baths, sleeping with a hot water bottle, massage, exercise (ok, maybe not exercise…) …it just feels …

What I Do To Stay Helathy When It’s Too Cold To Exercise Outside Read More »

Dec 10 2018

A New Way To Measure Stress… Your Hair

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

We all know someone’s who’s hair has literally seemed to turn grey overnight from stress… …it’s a very real thing. I know during the time when, years ago, my kids and I were unexpectedly abandoned by my then-husband who disappeared one night (and the stressful subsequent divorce that ensued) I got my fair share of grays that seemed to pop up daily and have remained in place right now, even 5+ years later. We also know during times of chronic stress, hair can become markedly thinner, falling out strand by strand or in clumps, even clogging your shower …

A New Way To Measure Stress… Your Hair Read More »

Jul 16 2018

Morning Light Effectively Treats Fibromyalgia In Just A Few Days

Female Health, Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Just one hour of bright light each morning has been medically shown to decrease pain and sensitivity as well as increase functioning in patients with fibromyalgia. Meaningful results were statistically significant without any artificial prescription medications and zero side effects, which is exciting news because fibromyalgia pain is typically an extremely difficult type of pain to treat. Usually, fibromyalgia patients are either given a cocktail of Rx medications ranging from antidepressants to pain killers, or told there is nothing that can be done and that the pain and the reduced ability to function is just now their baseline… or …

Morning Light Effectively Treats Fibromyalgia In Just A Few Days Read More »

Jun 19 2017

Adult Onset ADHD Totally Different Than Childhood ADHD

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

Ever since I blogged about 5 Holistic Ways To Treat ADHD a few weeks ago, I’ve gotten dozens of emails from readers wondering if the same approach would help them with their adult ADHD too. So this is the perfect time to update you on the latest medical research about adult onset ADHD and give you a few additional recommendations. Although adulthood ADHD can absolutely simply be a continuation for childhood ADHD, researchers are now finding out that there is a separate, totally different, adult onset ADHD syndrome. This is important to understand, because currently to have a …

Adult Onset ADHD Totally Different Than Childhood ADHD Read More »

Aug 29 2016

10 Ways Grounding Can Directly Support Your Health During This Pandemic

Trying It Out For You: Compression Therapy

Trying It Out For You: A Salt Cave (aka Halotherapy)

What I Do To Stay Helathy When It’s Too Cold To Exercise Outside

A New Way To Measure Stress… Your Hair

Morning Light Effectively Treats Fibromyalgia In Just A Few Days

Adult Onset ADHD Totally Different Than Childhood ADHD

You Can Feel Better Than You Do Right Now!

Start Healing

Online Store

About / Contact