Dr. Mark G. Strom provides the highest quality, competent, timely, personal and confidential integrated medical care. Treatment is performed by a medical doctor trained and licensed in Western medicine who has also had thorough training in alternative/complementary medicine and behavioral medicine. Strom aspires to provide intimate care and health care advocacy in the midst of our chaotic health care environment. He represents an oasis for those of us who value the patient/doctor relationship.
The confluence of Strom's experience four crucial areas - traditional clinical medicine, medical acupuncture, sports medicine and behavioral medicine - have inspired his distinctive view of healthcare delivery, based upon a fusion of the applicable tenets of all four.FJ had a 20 year history of depression which was treated unsuccessfully with multiple psychotropic medications.
The confluence of Strom's experience four crucial areas - traditional clinical medicine, medical acupuncture, sports medicine and behavioral medicine - have inspired his distinctive view of healthcare delivery, based upon a fusion of the applicable tenets of all four.FJ had a 20 year history of depression which was treated unsuccessfully with multiple psychotropic medications.
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Mark G. Strom, MD has practiced medicine for more than 40 years. Strom earned his medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1969. Upon the completion of his training in general and cardiothoracic surgery, he served as Chief of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery at Garfield Medical Center in Los Angeles and Associate in Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA.
Patients' symptoms of somatic and psychiatric distress sometimes fail to improve in spite of traditional treatments. The focus of traditional remedies are to correct structural findings. Research studies have demonstrated that these types of abnormalities can be found in a high percentage of people without symptoms.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop following a traumatic event that threatens your safety or makes you feel helpless. It can affect those who personally experience the catastrophe, those who witness it, and those who pick up the pieces afterwards, including emergency workers and law enforcement officers.
The majority of fibromyalgia patients try alternative treatments to relieve their symptoms. Acupuncture might be one that will help. A study published in the June edition of Mayo Clinic Proceedings shows acupuncture can relieve fatigue and anxiety in fibromyalgia patients for up to seven months after treatment.
Specific acupuncture points increase gastrointestinal muscle contraction, relaxation and reduce gastric acid secretion. Acupuncture is therefore beneficial in treating general gastrointestinal symptoms. It can nourish related organs, minimize symptoms and contribute to medication free digestive system health maintenance.
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