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Dr. Clark has an extensive background in baseball, football, and olympic weight lifting. A native of Cleveland, Tn. Clark was a local standout in baseball, he batted over .415 as a sophomore in high school.
Dr. Clark has an extensive background in baseball, football, and olympic weightlifting. A native of Cleveland, Tn; Clark was a local standout in baseball, he batted over .415 as a sophomore in high school. He also played football in high school, his first love. He committed early to Steve Spurrier and the South Carolina Gamecocks. Ranked 4th in the country by ESPN as a fullback- he played football at both the University of South Carolina as well as Wofford College. He helped Wofford College win a Div. 1-AA Southern conference championship in 2010. Dr. Clark decided to move on to medical school after the NFL lockout in 2011, which led him to Arizona. Dr. Clark competed at local weightlifting meet as a 105 kg in February 2015 where he won first place.
I moved to Arizona in 2012 to begin my medical school career. My life took a big hit in 2014 when my father passed away from a tortuous battle with cancer.
I look at all the trials and tribulations a lot people go through and it pales in comparison to what a lot of people with cancer are going through. In the months following my father’s passing I began cultivating my ideas for Strength Doctor. I started my ideas for Strength Doctor wanting to give people all of the best tools to build their health up the right way- the most natural and cost effective way; versus tearing their body down with pharmaceuticals and surgeries-like I watched them do to my dad.
I underwent labrum shoulder surgery in February 2007 while playing at the University of South Carolina. The initial injury occurred during fall training camp and it was a minor injury initially, but it slowly got worse the more I played with it. By the time I had surgery the following winter it was the worst labrum repair our orthopedic surgeon had ever performed. I wish I would have had access to a doctor who did regenerative injections such as PRP back then, I am sure I could have prevented an unnecessary surgery which set my career back over a year.
‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,’ is one of the greatest quotes I have ever heard. “I’d rather prevent disease any day then have to treat it once it is established. It is hard to quantify exactly how many lives are saved and prolonged by the right nutrition, supplementation, and exercise- but we all know this is what we should be doing. We should be building our bodies up, versus tearing them down with bad food, lifestyle choices, and unnatural substances.
Dr. Clark obtained his Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine. He is currently a licensed Naturopathic Medical Doctor (N.M.D.) in the state of Arizona.
“Comparison of US scans at the baseline evaluation (A) and after PRP treatment (B).
It can be seen that there is a reduction of Achilles’ tendon thickness and an overall improvement of tendon echo-structure. The patient’s clinical scores were also satisfactory.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4212034/
“MRI lumbar spine; (a) sagittal view shows L3-4 disc degeneration, (b) axial view of the same patient shows atrophied multifidus on the same level of L3-4 disc degeneration, (c) increased cross-sectional area of lumbar multifidus after 12 months of local intramuscular PLRP injection.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4849261/
“A 26-year old man with a grade II muscle injury. (A) Ultrasound image showing the position of the needle (arrow) and a haematoma that has infiltrated the muscle. (B) Ultrasound image showing hyperechoic scar tissue in the site of the injury 2 weeks after the end of the treatment.”
“In all cases muscle lesions healed fully on ultrasound-imaging, the pain disappeared, and muscle function recovery was documented with a return to sports activity.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3934291/
Strength Doctor offers the following blood tests through SpectraCell Laboratories: Micronutrient, Hormones, Thyroid, Genetics, CardioMetabolic, Complete Blood Count, and Comprehensive Metabolic Panel. We also offer Food Intolerance testing through Alletess Medical Laboratory. Don’t wait in a waiting room for hours to get your blood drawn, give us a call and we’ll come to you on your time.
SpectraCell’s Micronutrient test provides the most comprehensive nutritional analysis available by measuring functional deficiencies at the cellular level. It is an assessment of how well the body utilizes 33 vitamins, minerals, amino/fatty acids, antioxidants, and metabolites, while conveying the body’s need for these micronutrients that enable the body to produce enzymes, hormones, and other substances essential for proper growth, development, and good health. This test provides the basis of a personalized, functional approach in addressing a broad variety of clinical conditions including arthritis, cancer, cardiovascular risk, diabetes, various immunological disorders, metabolic disorders and micronutrient deficiencies.
SPECTROX™ for Total Antioxidant Function
IMMUNIDEX™ Immune Response Score
https://www.spectracell.com/clinicians/products/mnt/
SpectraCell Laboratories offers comprehensive male and female hormone panels that reveal the overall state of hormonal balance in a patient. Like nutrients, hormones influence all aspects of health and disease – mood, sleep, metabolism, immunity, heart health and appearance. An imbalance of one hormone can initiate cascade of events that alters other hormones, so a comprehensive look at hormone status is key.
Hormones are chemical messengers that are secreted directly into the blood, which carries them to organs and tissues of the body to exert their functions. There are many types of hormones that act on different aspects of bodily functions and processes.
Symptoms of hormone imbalance also include:
https://www.spectracell.com/clinicians/products/hormone-balance-overview/
Thyroid: Thyroid hormones directly regulate every cell in our body as most basic functions like metabolism, emotions and thinking. We also test several proteins that affect thyroid function as well as antibodies to thyroid which can detect autoimmunity (when the immune system attacks healthy tissue) and your levels of cortisol, the stress hormone.
The following are symptoms for hypothyroidism:
The following are symptoms for hyperthyroidism:
https://www.spectracell.com/clinician-hormone-health-intro/
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/thyroid-disease/
The first commercially available telomere analysis in the United States.
Telomeres are sections of genetic material at the end of each chromosome whose primary function is to prevent chromosomal “fraying” when a cell replicates. As a cell ages, its telomeres become shorter. Eventually, the telomeres become too short to allow cell replication, the cell stops dividing and will ultimately die – a normal biological process.
https://www.spectracell.com/clinicians/products/telomere-testing/small>
Poor blood sugar regulation and unhealthy triglyceride and lipoprotein levels often present long before a diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes. SpectraCell’s CardioMetabolic, Pre-Diabetes, and LPP™ Plus Tests offer clinically relevant evaluation to help define risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), progression toward Type 2 Diabetes, and inflammation. These check points, along with a new CardioMetabolic Risk Assessment and Type 2 Diabetes Risk Assessment, help patients understand that not just one factor, but rather a constellation of factors, contributes to the genesis and progression toward cardiovascular disease including stroke, poor blood glucose control including Type 2 Diabetes, and/ or inflammation. Key components of the CardioMetabolic Test are listed below.
CardioMetabolic Test
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https://www.spectracell.com/cardiometabolicriskoverview/
A complete blood count (CBC) is a blood test used to evaluate your overall health and detect a wide range of disorders, including anemia, infection and leukemia. A complete blood count test measures several components and features of your blood, including:
Abnormal increases or decreases in cell counts as revealed in a complete blood count may indicate that you have an underlying medical condition that calls for further evaluation.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/complete-blood-count/home/ovc-20257165
Comprehensive Metabolic Panel: A comprehensive metabolic panel is a blood test that measures your sugar (glucose) level, electrolyte and fluid balance, kidney function, and liver function. Glucose is a type of sugar your body uses for energy. Electrolytes keep your body’s fluids in balance. They also help keep your body working normally, including your heart rhythm, muscle contraction, and brain function. The kidneys help keep the right balance of water, salts, and minerals in the blood. They also filter out waste and other unneeded substances from the blood. The liver helps with digestion and produces some vitamins and other substances that the body needs. It also controls the amounts of glucose, protein, and fat in the blood and releases substances that keep your immune system healthy. This panel measures the blood levels of albumin, blood urea nitrogen, calcium, carbon dioxide, chloride, creatinine, glucose, potassium, sodium, total bilirubin and protein, and liver enzymes (alanine aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, and aspartate aminotransferase).
http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/tc/comprehensive-metabolic-panel-topic-overview
Are food intolerances causing your stomach and body distress? While a food ‘allergy’ can result in an acute immune reaction that can be a hospital emergency- food intolerances are more subtle, and may not appear for a couple of days after you have eaten the offending food. Signs of food intolerances include:
Some of the most common food intolerances are: wheat, corn, eggs, dairy products, peanuts, citrus, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, and seeds. Listed below are the foods included in our baseline intolerance panel consisting of 96 foods:
https://foodallergy.com/tests/available-tests
“Gua sha is a traditional East Asian healing technique where the body surface is press-stroked with a smooth-edged instrument to intentionally raise therapeutic petechiae. “
“Gua Sha increases microcirculation local to a treated area, and that increase in circulation may play a role in local and distal decrease in myalgia (muscle pain). There is an unidentified pain-relieving biomechanism associated with Gua Sha.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21276190
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17905355
Prolotherapy solution attracts certain immune cell such as fibroblasts to the area of focus to help produce new collagen, helping regenerate your connective tissue.
“Overall, dextrose prolotherapy has been demonstrated to be efficacious and should be considered as a treatment for pain and dysfunction associated with chronic musculoskeletal conditions, particularly tendinopaties and osteoarthritis.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4938120/
A new pain-curing therapy that regenerates damaged nerves, relieves pain, and stimulates the body’s own natural healing response. Safe, injections are very superficial. Fast Results. Only natural substances are used that are found within the body.
Significant results are seen in as little as 2-3 treatment sessions. The procedure is quick and effective, most treatment sessions last around fifteen minutes.
Physical manipulation effectively aligns bones and can alleviate pain instantly.
Medical Marijuana is an exciting and relatively new treatment option that has been clinically shown to benefit those with the following conditions:
-Persistent and Severe Nausea/Vomiting
-Persistent and Severe Chronic Pain
-Persistent and Severe Muscle Spasms
-Glaucoma
-Crohn’s Disease
-Alzeimer’s
-Hepatitis C
-Seizures
-Cachexia/Wasting Syndrome
-HIV/AIDS
-Epilepsy
-ALS (Lou Gehrigs Disease)
-Multiple Sclerosis
-PTSD
Many patients’ dealing with chronic pain have abandoned pharmaceutical drugs for pain relief and many have found more benefit from medical marijuana use.
Deficiencies in B12 include:
-fatigue
-pain
-poor memory
-anxiety
-depression
-dizziness
-digestive problems
-anemia
-lack of appetite
We offer Nutrient IV’s that contain our recommended amount of B12 for you. Vitamin B12 shots may also be given for immediate results.
Vitamin B12 is essential for making red blood cells, producing myelin for the nervous system, protecting against high homocysteine levels for helping prevent cardiovascular disease, hormone production, facilitating neurotransmitter function. Vitamin B12 can help treat fatigue, depression, pain, muscle weakness and much more.
“Vitamin B12 is essential for DNA synthesis and for cellular energy production.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11558625
Acupuncture works primarily on the nervous system, profoundly affecting the body in many ways that can impact a person’s health including and not limited to: physical, physiological, neurological, and even the endocrine system through stress reduction.
“After 72 hours, pain perception (VAS) was significantly lower in the acupuncture group compared to the sham acupuncture and control subjects.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20499248
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18990049
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20386479
http://smiweb.org/smi-newsletter/2013/06/acupuncture-for-the-athlete/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16739839
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18185043
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15103431
Nutrient IV’s bypass the gastrointestinal system, which has many benefits including:
-zero reliance on your gastrointestinal system for absorption (most people have compromised nutrient absorption due to gastrointestinal pathologies and disturbances).
-greater amount of nutrients can be absorbed by the body (Intravenous threshold for certain nutrients like Vitamin C is much higher)
-nutrient intake can be controlled (with no concerns of getting too much or too little, we cater the nutrient bags to your needs)
-speed – the nutrient goes in immediately!
Cupping is also used to help in alleviating anxiety and depression. The cups create a vacuum effect to release soft tissue adhesions of the skin, fascia, and muscles. It is used in sports (as seen lately in the Olympics) as a form of preventative recovery. Regular cupping treatments can help alleviate muscular hypertonicity which leads to pain and muscle dysfunction.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23713312
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3676414
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