Interventional Pain Management and Regenerative Medicine in Fort Wayne
Welcome to Spine Technology and Rehabilitation
Spine Technology and Rehabilitation is dedicated to technical excellence in comprehensive diagnostic and rehabilitative care. Spine Technology features interventional pain management and regenerative medicine for all painful or physically disabling conditions.
Each patient’s diagnostic and therapeutic interventions are customized, with great technical precision, to their individual needs. In this manner, our Fort Wayne pain clinic continues to build upon and earn our ongoing national and international reputation as physicians and scientists.
Dedication, research, and education are the foundation of our mission to provide all patients exceptional care. Our specialties include Interventional Pain Management, Regenerative Medicine and Integrative Medicine.
It’s time to manage your pain without medications.
Interventional Pain Management:
Suffer No More
STAR provides patients the benefit of award-winning pain detective and interventional pain treatment techniques. Spine Technology features interventional pain management and regenerative medicine for all painful or physically disabling conditions. Why continue to suffer from intractable pain when STAR can help?
Our interventional pain management clinic in Fort Wayne has trained interventional pain management procedures, as well as imaging and instrument navigation technologies, to physicians from all over the world.
As the patient, you are the ultimate beneficiary of this expertise, as well as our international network providing the latest information and technology. Spine Technology features interventional pain management and regenerative medicine for all painful or physically disabling conditions.
What is Regenerative Medicine?
Regenerative medicine treats your condition at the source so you don’t have to rely on pain medication.
Your body has intrinsic healing properties. So, our integrative medicine clinic employs scientifically sound techniques to activate its natural healing elements.
Regenerative medicine addresses pain by repairing your damaged cells and tissues. It uses stem cells and bio-scaffolding to treat the source directly.
Pain medication doesn’t have to be your primary management tool. Choose regenerative medicine.
What is Integrative Medicine?
Your Body's Operator's Manual
Integrative medicine combines conventional medicine, alternative medicine, and lifestyle changes so that you can live without limits. Our Fort Wayne clinic modifies treatment plans to address your specific medical concerns and to fit your lifestyle goals.
This approach is backed by modern science as well as centuries-old beliefs that date back to the father of medicine himself, Hippocrates.
Sport science has discovered that optimal performance relies on optimal fuel for our body’s machinery. As Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Sounds easy enough, but for some people finding the right combination of food and lifestyle, which properly fuels the body, can require sophisticated testing and complicated lifestyle changes.
Dr. Fortin and his staff simplify this process with a three-step plan, customized to each patient’s needs (i.e. your body’s operator’s manual). Applying the latest research and progressive practices STAR can help transform your overall health and sense of well-being.
Discuss integrative medicine with us today.
Our Services
Live your best life with the help of Spine Technology and Rehabilitation.
Our Fort Wayne integrative medicine clinic is the longest-standing independent pain practice in the region. We take a patient-centered approach to pain management and regenerative medicine.
Unlike other clinics that search for pain problems that match their treatment options, our clinic looks for the root cause of your pain symptoms. Then, we build a treatment plan around it.
Let’s discuss the most suitable pain management approach for you.
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Integrative Medicine
Our philosophy at STAR (Spine Technology and Rehabilitation) is to treat the whole person using the principles of integrative medicine. While conventional medicine focuses on symptomatic treatment, integrative medicine promotes health and well-being through holistic therapy.
Using complementary and alternative medicine, including practices such as physical therapy, yoga, massage therapy and acupuncture, we aim to trigger the body’s innate healing response. For example, we also use photo bio modulation or PBM a non-invasive, and non-painful form of infrared light therapy which has been scientifically shown to stimulate cells to generate more energy and undergo self-repair. The most recent scientific research done by academic health centers and bodies, such as the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and the National Cancer Institute, serves as a foundation for our health and wellness treatments.
Understanding Integrative, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine
Alternative therapies are non-mainstream treatments that are used instead of conventional practices, while complementary therapies are non-mainstream treatments used together with traditional medicine. When providers offer both conventional and alternative medical care, it is referred to as integrative medicine.
Integrative medicine aims to enhance your overall health rather than focusing purely on your disease or illness. Your healthcare providers at STAR recognize that the body, mind, and spirit interact as a sum of their parts. Accordingly, our exhaustive diagnostic studies (to determine the underlying reason for your symptoms or ailment) as well as our treatment approach are provided in that context; ensuring an optimal outcome.
The practice uses complementary therapies based on scientific research to enhance your health and well-being; understanding that all aspects of the body, whether physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual, affect your health. Keep in mind that integrative medicine therapies use both conventional and alternative methods to promote the healing process.
Unlike functional medicine, which offers individualized treatment for a particular ailment, integrative medicine is designed to target the body as a whole and not just the disease.
Defining Principles
- Throughout the recovery process, the sufferer, and the therapist work together and the practitioner is viewed as a catalyst for change rather than a drug prescriber.
- The spirit, mind, and body are all taken into account when determining health, well-being, and sickness.
- Along with the concept of therapy, the broader ideas of health promotion and disease prevention are essential for integrative health care.
- Integrative medicine views the symptoms as a messenger and the healing process as a voyage of self-discovery and empowerment.
- The appropriate application of conventional and alternative techniques supports the body’s natural capacity to heal.
- When possible, holistic and non-invasive therapies are used.
- Neither traditional medicine nor alternative remedies are outright rejected in integrative medicine.
- Evidence-based, inquiry-driven, and open to fresh perspectives are the tenets of integrative medicine.
- Health professionals that use integrative approaches should live by its concepts and dedicate themselves to self-discovery and self-improvement.
The Difference Between Conventional Medicine and Integrative Medicine
When you visit a conventional healthcare provider, you’ll typically receive treatment for your symptoms in the form of medication or surgical interventions. However, by focusing the approach on the whole person (not just the symptoms or disease), integrative medicine aims to achieve optimal health through lifestyle changes and holistic treatment. As the integrative medicine approach is aimed at the factors which lead to poor health (versus the conventional approach which focuses solely on disease features), illness is successfully treated and further maladies are prevented without harmful medications or invasive surgeries.
What We Can Do for You
At Star Spine Technology and Rehabilitation, our complementary and integrative health care services help our patients:
- Help to manage mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety
- Minimize stress levels
- Reduce and treat pain and muscle tension
- Follow a healthy diet and way of life
- Improve their balance, strength, and physical performance
- Help to regulate their hormone levels which affect pain, mood, and vitality.
- Treat chronic diseases
- Boost energy levels
- Deal with chronic pain and inflammation
- Reduce the need for invasive surgical procedures
- Manage some of the adverse effects of cancer treatment
Why Choose Us
Wondering whether our facility is the right option for you? Here are some of the benefits of choosing STAR (Spine Technology and Rehabilitation) to treat, manage, and prevent illness:
- We adopt a patient-centered approach, ensuring that you get the health care support you need
- Our goal is to find a less-invasive way to treat your condition according to the principles of integrative medicine
- The team has received extensive medical education and training and are experts at locating the source of pain and pathology
- When you choose us, you have the assurance that you’re getting personalized healthcare
- We see cutting-edge technology to ensure that you get the best possible care
- Fortin also specializes in regenerative medicine, pain management, physical medicine, rehabilitation, electrodiagnostics, sports medicine, and bone densitometry
Talk to Us Today About Our Integrative Medicine Approach!
Have you been to health professionals numerous times, only to be prescribed medication? The truth is that conventional approaches aim to temporarily reduce your symptoms without actually curing the disease.
This means that you’ll have to visit your physician regularly to fill prescriptions and find new ways to treat pain and aches. Unfortunately, this constricted approach too often leads to risky treatments and surgeries. However, when you choose a facility that adopts integrative medicine principles, you can identify and treat the root cause for safe, effective, and reliable treatment.
At STAR (Spine Technology and Rehabilitation) we believe that treating illness and disability requires more than just a prescription. You need proper support and patient care to ensure the best possible outcome.
Talk to us today about how we can help you improve your overall health and wellness with integrative medicine!