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Activated Oxygen Therapy
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Precision Medicine
Hydrodissection
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Integrative Medicine
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Ketamine
Infusion
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Lyftogt Perineural
Injection
NAD
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O-Shot
P-Shot
PEMF
Therapy
Peptide
Therapy
PRP
Injections
Regnerative Medicine
Shiftwave
Therapy
Shockwave
Therapy
Sound
Healing
Sphenopalatine Ganglia Block
Stellate
Ganglion Blocks
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Activated oxygen therapy is a highly active detoxifying biological agent that has health-promoting and healing properties. Used for more than 100 years as a health treatment worldwide (Austria, Russia, China, Italy, Germany, Egypt, Cuba, Thailand, Spain, Brazil, France), Activated oxygen therapy has proven in thousands of cases, to be a valuable remedy for a wide range of ailments. It also works tremendously as a complementary treatment for many conditions, speeds healing in many other common afflictions and can accelerate healing from surgery.
Activated oxygen therapy stimulates a small, mild, acute oxidative stress on the body, very similar to fasting and exercise
This triggers the production & release of the body’s own antioxidants
It also stimulates the NRF2 pathway, which results in lower inflammation and increased cellular healing
Activated oxygen therapy can be used topically or internally (in several different ways… but not in the lungs!)
It has a better safety profile than Aspirin (Approximately 6 people out of 100,000 have negative side effects)
Activated oxygen therapy has been used medically since 1871, and was used in WWI to heal battle wounds and avoid amputations
There are over 2,000 published medical studies on the use of ozone for a variety of uses
Thousands of doctors and practitioners around the world use activated oxygen therapy in their practice today
It is believed that activated oxygen therapy can effectively dismantle unwanted pathogens (bacteria, mold, parasites, funguses, viruses) in the blood
One 2-month study showed an increase in beneficial commensal organisms (better microbiome!)
As an expert in health optimization, Dr. Mulcahy can provide recommendations based on your health history and functional labs. As an expert in yourself, you can be successful at implementing them! This is where a Functional Health Coach can help.
Health coaches are behavior change experts. We support clients in finding their own strategies and motivation for change, help them overcome obstacles, and implement the protocols that have been prescribed by the doctor. We don’t operate on the “expert model” that’s so common in healthcare. We don’t lecture, prescribe, or simply dispense advice. Instead, we empower others to make the choice for health, including healthier behaviors, for themselves.
Functional Health Coaches are also trained in Functional Health, the foundation of Functional Medicine, which makes us perfect liaisons between you and Dr. Mulcahy. As Patient Care Coordinators, we help you with the logistics of following your personalized care plan, increasing your success!
Functional medicine is a branch of healthcare that focuses on the root cause of a disease or condition, rather than just treating its symptoms. It takes into account the whole person, including their lifestyle, environment, and genetics, and seeks to address the underlying imbalances that lead to chronic diseases and symptoms.Functional medicine is a systems biology–based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease. Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of many contributing to an individual’s illness.
Are you curious about what you might be missing when putting the pieces of your health puzzle together? Do you strive to find a nutrition and movement plan that meets your specific needs? Do you struggle to manage a chronic disease imbalance or disease? Have you tried countless diets and exercise plans? Do you want more energy and can’t find a way to get it? Are you worried about your future self, as you consider your daily health concerns and want to prevent potential future disease? Do you feel like doctors just don’t understand you and your health completely, and you are not sure where to go next?Functional medicine is a branch of healthcare that focuses on the root cause of a disease or condition, rather than just treating its symptoms. It takes into account the whole person, including their lifestyle, environment, and genetics, and seeks to address the underlying imbalances that lead to chronic diseases and symptoms.Functional medicine is a systems biology–based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease. Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of many contributing to an individual’s illness.
Precision Medicine and genomics might provide these answers.
Precision medicine is about you. It is not about the average, or “most people.” Most of the medical world follows what is referred to as “general guidelines” based on statistics to provide diagnoses and treatments that work for the majority of people. But those numbers don’t account for individual genetic variances.
By pairing knowledge of conventional medicine with precision genomics and integrative medicine, we aim to get closer to treating and preventing your unique health symptoms and conditions.
Addressing cardiac, neurologic, performance, fatigue, or any other health issue requires focus first on the entire system, so we start with DNA. We sequence your DNA to analyze your genetic advantages, predispositions, and disadvantages. This makes up your human operating system and knowing this code is critical to optimizing your health.
Boost has partnered with Wild Health to provide patients with state-of-the-art genomics testing and analysis as a launch pad to improving health, performance and longevity.We start with a patient’s DNA and a specific and extensive blood panel, and other lab tests (like microbiome), in order to get a holistic picture of the patient.
Then, we look at lifestyle and epigenetics to get a current snapshot and sense of genetic potential.
Each patient will receive a personalized diet, supplement, exercise, sleep and lifestyle plan, as well as recommendations for adjunct therapies, like fasting. This report is fundamental to supporting a path to normalize biomarkers, stop–and in some cases reverse–disease. Whatever your health goals, we’ll help optimize for today and tomorrow.
We Are All Unique
Your genetics, epigenome, microbiome, and environment make you truly unique. We explore your particular risk factors and identify an optimal diet, exercise, and supplement strategy to help you live your best possible life. We take a deep dive into your genetics, as well as extensive biomarker testing which may include serum, urine, saliva, and microbiome. This information along with an in-depth conversation, gives us a deep understanding of your potential and actual risk for disease and degeneration. We then tailor a personalized health optimization plan for you.
And when we look at your lab work and your genetics, we also look at prevention. Let’s understand your risks through complex genetics and biomarker testing. Then, let’s look at a holistic approach to prevention and treatment. While medications are sometimes necessary, they can be the exception. Often a personalized diet, supplement, exercise,sleep, and lifestyle plan is enough to normalize biomarkers and stop disease, prevent it, or even plan is enough to normalize biomarkers and stop disease or even reverse it.
LONGEVITY
We are closer than ever to identifying the causes of aging and taking steps to prevent it. Early research has even reversed aging in a small group of individuals. The science is moving fast though, and you need a qualified team focused on the research and data to help decide which longevity protocol or intervention is best for your genetics and lifestyle.
Our protocols evolve based on our patients’ chronological age, epigenetic age, lifestyle, and current health status. These personalized plans include pharmaceuticals, peptides, IV therapy, bioidentical hormone therapy, stem cells, fasting, and more.
Each longevity protocol is tailored for you and your goals and monitored with yearly epigenetic clock testing. As with the rest of our practice, we encourage tracking objective data to assess the effectiveness of our interventions, whether through regular lab work, repeat imaging, or retesting of your epigenetic clock. We want to know and you deserve to know if your hard work is paying off.
PERFORMANCE
Athletic performance optimization. Everyone responds differently to foods, movements, and supplements. A one-size-fits-all approach to training and nutrition can only take us so far. If you’re looking to achieve the next level of performance, we can help. Get a boost with targeted exercise programs and nutritional recommendations based on your unique genetic and nutrition profiles.
What is Hydrodissection?
Hyrodissection is essentially the release of a trapped nerve using fluid. Broken down, “hydro” means water, and “dissect” means to separate. Often, nerves become trapped as a result of tight muscles or connective tissue. When this occurs, circulation to the entrapped nerve decreases significantly, resulting in neuropathic symptoms such as numbness and tingling, radiating pain, “pins and needles,” weakness, and pain in the area around the nerve compression.
Ultrasound provides a visual representation of the area of impingement, allowing for precise delivery of fluid around the nerve entrapment. During the procedure, a syringe is inserted adjacent to the impingement. Fluid is then injected around the impingement to separate the nerve from the surrounding tissues. By releasing pressure on the nerve, circulation is quickly restored, leading to near-immediate pain relief in the affected area.
Red LightDelivered at 660nm, red light is readily absorbed by surface tissues and cells, leading to enhanced skin health and healing.
Near-Infrared LightDelivered at 850nm, near infrared (NIR) light is invisible to the human eye, and penetrates into deeper tissues, leading to enhanced recovery and inflammation support.
Recovery+ ModeRecovery+ delivers continuous red light and pulsed NIR light to boost the body’s natural recovery, healing, and regeneration process. It’s ideal for post-workout treatments.
What is light therapy and why should you use it?
We’ll answer those questions below and explain how light therapy treatments can improve your health and help you thrive. With so many other health modalities and therapies out there, it’s natural to be skeptical. In this article, we’ll also show that light therapy is an effective treatment backed by science and peer-reviewed clinical research.
Everyone Needs Healthy Light, But Most People Don’t Get Enough
Light is essential for our health and cellular function, just like water, sleep, and the nutrients from food. The human body is designed to function with an abundance of natural sunlight, but with our modern lifestyles, most people don’t get nearly enough light every day. The average American spends over 90% of their time indoors. [1] That’s not nearly enough natural light for optimal health and balance! Worse yet, much of the time we spend indoors is filled with bright blue light from screens and overhead lighting, which can have a negative effect on sleep and circadian rhythms.Bottom line: everyone needs healthy light, but most people don’t get enough. Instead, they get way too much blue light, resulting in worse sleep and overall health.
Light Therapy Delivers Healthy Light in Your Home
Light therapy is an easy way to add healthy light to your life, in the comfort of your home, at any time of day, no matter the weather or season. A light therapy device treats your body with red and near infrared (NIR) wavelengths of light, delivered directly to your skin and cells. Check out this video to see how a Joovv treatment impacts the cells in your body.
Sometimes, taking your daily vitamins just isn’t enough. To give your health and vitality a noticeable boost, IV therapy offers a quick and convenient treatment designed to boost your performance and keep you feeling your best.
IV
Therapy
Types
Alleviate: Reduce bloating, irritability, abdominal discomfort and more.
Brainstorm: May improve overall brain function, increase memory recall and certain aspects of learning.
Get-Up-And-Go: Burn fat, feel energized and boost your metabolism.
Glutathione: Glutathione is a powerful antioxidant made that might help to prevent many diseases and support the immune system.
Immunity: Strengthen your immune system and feel better faster.
Inner Beauty:
Reduce appearance of wrinkles, acne and tired skin.
Iron: Help to boost your iron levels to improve energy levels.
Myer's Cocktail: Reduce seasonal allergies, fatigue, and inflammation, and restore natural balance.
Quench: Hydrate and combat fatigue from dehydration.
Reboot: When you need to hit the reset button after a long night out, combat hangover-related symptoms like dehydration, headache and nausea.
Recovery & Performance: Decrease recovery time and enhance your athletic performance.
Ketamine infusions offer transformative results for people with chronic pain, depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Allison Mulcahy, MD is a double board-certified physician and a certified ketamine and stellate ganglion block provider who offers innovative solutions to people who are searching for hope and relief from their persistent symptoms.
What is ketamine?
Ketamine is an anesthetic that has long been used during surgery. In more recent years, medical experts discovered that ketamine is highly effective in many other situations, including chronic pain and mental health disorders.
What conditions do ketamine infusions treat?
Ketamine treats issues including:
• Chronic pain, particularly neuropathic (nerve) pain
• Treatment-resistant depression
• Suicidal ideation
• Treatment-resistant anxiety
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD
While it’s not generally the first step in treatment, ketamine can offer truly amazing results for people struggling with chronic debilitating pain and mental health problems. In fact, it’s about 90% effective for PTSD, ranking it among the most effective of all treatments for that disorder.
How does ketamine infusion work?
The specifics of how ketamine works are extremely complex, but it essentially affects glutamate and opioid receptors in your brain to create the desired effects. Ketamine can rewire your brain, changing bad things like negative thoughts into new positive ones.
What is the ketamine infusion treatment process?
You receive ketamine through intravenous infusions at Boost. You relax in a comfortable area as the medication gradually enters your veins through a slim catheter.
The ketamine infusion treatment usually takes around 40 minutes. After your infusion, you remain in the office for a short period (around 20 minutes) so Dr. Mulcahy can monitor you for any issues before you return home.
Dr. Mulcahy can also administer ketamine through intramuscular injections. She prefers to avoid oral routes of administration because ketamine has a bioavailability (absorption) rate of as low as 17% when taken by mouth.
In some cases, ketamine may be just one aspect of your treatment. Dr. Mulcahy may recommend a stellate ganglion block, an injection that’s sometimes called a nervous system reset. Some studies show that the two different anesthetics can work together to maximize your results.
Is ketamine right for me?
The best way to find out whether ketamine could work for you is a consultation at Boost. In general, the best candidates for ketamine infusion therapy are people who have chronic pain or treatment-resistant mental health issues.
If you’re struggling with your current treatment approach and need mental and emotional relief, ketamine could help.
Dr. Mulcahy is a certified ketamine and stellate ganglion block provider with extensive expertise in helping her patients find the treatments they need. To learn more about ketamine, call the Boost office or book your appointment online now.
This treatment, first discovered and later significantly developed by Dr. John Lyftogt (pronounced “Liftoff”) consists of a series of small injections immediately under the skin targeting painful areas where the nerves are sensitive, with simple and natural substances. The substance Dr. Lyftogt uses is a buffered D5W (dextrose 5% in sterile water) with a neutral pH of 7.4. Dr Lyftogt was the first person to use D5W to effectively treat chronic neuropathic pain and disability. Dr. Lyftogt found that treating painful nerves is an effective way to treat and extinguish chronic neuropathic pain.
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“This treatment, first discovered and later significantly developed by Dr. John Lyftogt (pronounced “Liftoff”) consists of a series of small injections immediately under the skin targeting painful areas where the nerves are sensitive, with simple and natural substances. The substance Dr. Lyftogt uses is a buffered D5W (dextrose 5% in sterile water) with a neutral pH of 7.4. Dr Lyftogt was the first person to use D5W to effectively treat chronic neuropathic pain and disability. Dr. Lyftogt found that treating painful nerves is an effective way to treat and extinguish chronic neuropathic pain.
In initial studies Dr. Lyftogt published, the treatment was named Subcutaneous Prolotherapy, and later, Neural Prolotherapy, abbreviated as NPT. The confusion with traditional Prolotherapy (a significantly different treatment) resulted in the change of these names to the more descriptive term, Lyftogt Perineural Injection Treatment®. Some Americans refer to this treatment as PSI (perineural subcutaneous injections), or PNI (perineural injections). Anyone using these terms is in fact referring to Lyftogt Perineural Injection Treatment® with D5W, as discovered and developed by New Zealander Dr John Lyftogt.
Lyftogt P.I.T.® is a safe and effective treatment for painful conditions due to sport and occupation or other chronic non-malignant pain related issues.
Lyftogt P.I.T.® involves first making an accurate diagnosis of the cause of pain, which is usually due to an injured or non-healing sensory nerve causing pain and inflammation.
Every treatment aims to extinguish the pain. After the first treatment pain relief may last for a period of four hours to four days. Repeated treatments (6-8 sessions) usually done weekly, result in gradual reduction of the overall pain, with the aim of complete resolution – a zero pain score – and allow return of full function. Success rates vary between 80-100% depending on the condition. For most conditions recurrence is unlikely unless re-injury occurs.”
The treatment is extremely safe; D5W is used as an IV solution in hospitals worldwide. Being mostly a subcutaneous treatment, and using only a half-inch needle, harm is minimized. There may be some bruising. No allergic reactions have yet been observed. Infection is extremely rare, calculated at about 1 in 300,000 injections. The only adverse reactions reported are temporary histamine induced welts at injection sites and extremely rare corn allergies. There are no reported issues of dependency. If you are wondering if this treatment will work for you, please reach out to us.
Dr. Lyftogt says: “Pain is an enormous unmet need. Current treatment guidelines with antidepressants, antiepileptic and analgesics targeting Central Nervous System sensitisation benefit less than 25% of patients (Canadian pain society 2013). Opioids as a last resort are now creating an iatrogenic epidemic of opioid dependency worldwide."
Case Studies & Scholarly Articles
A Sweet Solution to Pain A Commonly Overlooked Cause of Abdominal Pain Blocks with D5W
Effects of Graded Compression on Intraneural Blood Blow Dextrose Treats Optic Neuritis
Periarticular Dextrose Prolotherapy For Pain Short Term Analgesic Effects of 5 Dextrose Epidural Injections
Six Month Efficacy of Perineural Dextrose for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Effectiveness of Prolotherapy in Knee Osteoarthritis
Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia Utilizing Neural Prolotherapy Ultrasound Guided Perineural Injection
NAD Treatments Q&A
What is a NAD Treatment?
NAD has the ability to protect tissues, induce DNA repair and increase lifespan. Stress and inflammation lead to decreased levels of NAD. A nutrient-poor diet, and/or malabsorption, can also result in low NAD. Sub-optimal levels of NAD are often associated with health problems including addiction, degenerative diseases, anxiety, depression, PTSD, sleep disorders and autism.
The fastest way to get your NAD levels up are with NAD IV treatments which directly raise your NAD levels. NAD BR+ is NAD Brain Restoration Therapy which is a nutrient-based IV therapy, pioneered by Dr. Richard Metsayer, that restores NAD. The NAD BR+ proprietary supplements are thought to be the best on the market by many. It’s important to know that if you have genetic mutations in your ability to methylate, the most common being the MTHFR gene, you will need to make sure you supplement with methyl donors such as creatine, trimethylglycine (betaine) or folate.
How does it work?
NAD is the rate limiting step, or “bottleneck”, for cell signaling. It’s also the control for many intracellular processes including DNA repair, apoptosis and telomere maintenance. DNA repair prevents damaged cells from causing further problems in our bodies such as cancer. Apoptosis is the body’s ability to identify damaged cells and kill them. Telomeres are like ends of our DNA. I like to think of them as the plastic ends on shoelaces; if they’re damaged, the DNA doesn’t replicate properly and the sequelae of aging ensues. (Stored in dropbox) Telomere length is one way to measure your biologic age, (how old your body is) vs chronologic age (how many years your body has lived).
Check out this diagram of the Krebs cycle
You’ll see some of the locations NAD+ is used in our metabolic systems. NAD is converted to NADH in metabolic pathways and the optimum NAD/NADH ratio is 700/1! In addition to apoptosis, DNA repair and telomere length, NAD also plays an important role in sirtuins.
Sirtuins are also getting a lot of buzz for their anti-aging effects. They regulate nuclear transcription and are intricately involved in the regulation of aging. A decreased NAD/NADH ratio suppresses the activity of Sirtuins. Oxygen indirectly catalyzes cellular reactions using NAD. Anything that causes decreased oxygen utilization results in a decreased ability of the mitochondria to recycle the NADH to NAD and the NAD/NADH ratio is decreased. A decreased ratio causes increased lactic acidosis, decreased apoptosis leading to cancer, increased protein catabolism and increased intra-cellular free radical stress. Basically a decreased ratio is the genesis of all chronic disease.
The numbers of women who suffer from sexual problems–30-50% (depending upon the age) are discouraging (the higher incidence is seen in younger women). And remember, these numbers only include women who are psychologically distressed. If a woman avoids sex because of one of these problems but claims to not be bothered by the lack of sexual activity, then she’s not counted in these statistics. Is that really the best way to tabulate the incidence of a problem? Perhaps. But, suppose we didn’t count high cholesterol as a problem unless it bothered the patient with a heart attack? Is it possible that a woman just learns to tolerate less than optimal sexual activity (rather than Activating the Female Orgasm System) and so eventually does not consider the sexual condition to be a problem?
O-Shot
• Female Sexual Arousal Disorder (usually but not always accompanies Sexual Desire Disorder). Women who suffer with this may want to have sex but have much difficulty finding the pleasure of arousal. The 5% incidence doesn’t sound like much until you think about it–that’s the same as one in 20!
• Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (Low desire). Remember, that this is not counted a disorder unless it’s disrupting the woman’s life. Around 10% of women suffer with this problem. Important: Suffering with a sexual disorder does not simply make sex not fun. Better sex leads to more energy, more creativity, increased confidence, less depression, and improved overall health.
• Female Orgasmic Disorder: Again around 1 in 20 (or 5%). Here women can become aroused but have much difficulty with orgasm. This can be so frustrating that sex becomes a frustration that they avoid.
• Dyspareunia: Here the woman suffers with real pain with sex (not from decreased lubrication or vaginal spasm). The incidence is from around 1 in 10 to 1 in 5 women. (The above shocking statistics came from Obstetrics & Gynecology April 2011)
• Genital Mismatch can contribute to both Female Orgasmic Disorder & to Dyspareunia
A SPECIFIC Method, protected by the US Patent & Trademark office of using blood-derived growth factors to rejuvenate the penis (also known as the P-Shot®).
P - Shot
Please watch the video below to learn more!
Dr. Leonardo explains the Priapus Shot (P-Shot): Erectile Dysfunction Treatment using PRP Therapy
What is PEMF?
Imagine your cells as batteries — daily stressors slowly drain them of the energy they need to function optimally. By the end of the day, your body, mind, and soul may feel completely depleted. That’s where PEMF technology comes in! PEMF generates energy at the cellular level without medically invasive procedures. This amplification of natural energy encourages the body to function more effectively for overall wellness. By stimulating and exercising the cell, PEMF addresses dysfunction where it starts (at the cellular level). Users often report feeling relaxed during a PEMF session and energized afterwards!
The Benefits of PEMF
• Enhance the Body’s Natural Recovery Process- Address underlying cellular dysfunction by stimulating and exercising the cells.
• Support General Relaxation-PEMF is a soothing and restorative modality.
• Experience More Energy, Naturally- The body’s holistic nature uses PEMF as a catalyst for full-body energy.
We have integrative peptides, oral, and tailor-made injectable peptides.
Benefits of Peptides versus Hormones
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Collection of Scholarly Peptide Articles
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Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections use supercharged healing platelets from your own blood to stimulate healing. At Boost, which has offices in Victor, Idaho, experienced double board-certified physician Allison Mulcahy, MD, offers PRP injections to help with healing of muscle, tendon, and ligament injuries. Book your appointment online or call the nearest office to schedule a visit today.
What are PRP injections?
PRP injections contain platelet-rich plasma, a substance that comes from your blood. Platelets are one part of your blood, and they have tremendous healing abilities.
Your platelets contain more than 30 unique growth factors, substances that stimulate healing, cellular renewal, and new blood vessel growth. Platelets also attract stem cells to the area of your injury to provide even faster healing.
PRP concentrates your platelets, yielding a substance with 5-10 times the platelets your blood contains normally. Ultimately, this gives you a massive dose of growth factors where you need them the most.
What conditions do PRP injections treat?
PRP injections treat many different musculoskeletal conditions, including:
• Chronic tendon issues like Achilles tendonitis
• Ligament sprains (overstretching and partial tears)
• Tendon strains
• Partial tendon tears
• Muscle injuries
Generally, PRP works best for injuries and age-related tissue breakdown, but it has many applications today. Doctors sometimes use it during surgery to help their patients recover faster and more efficiently.
How do PRP injections work?
For PRP injections, Dr. Mulcahy uses a small amount of your own blood. She treats the blood using a special centrifugation process, which concentrates the platelets in one layer.
After discarding the remaining parts of the blood sample, Dr. Mulcahy injects the pure platelet formula directly into your injured area.
Dr. Mulcahy has extensive ultrasound training, and she often uses these specialized skills to precisely pinpoint the area of injection. Because she uses very thin needles, most patients tolerate the injections very well. PRP injections take just a short time in the Boost office.
When can I expect after PRP injections?
After PRP injections, most people experience pain relief within 3-4 weeks. Then, over the next 3-6 months, you notice additional improvement as the platelets further stimulate healing and recovery. After your PRP injections, you may opt for retreatment in the future. In general, PRP injections have long-lasting results because they actually stimulate your body to make new tissue. So, as long as you stay healthy, your new tissue remains healthy and viable as well.
To learn more about PRP injections and what they can do for you, call the Boost office or click on the provided appointment scheduler now.
Scientifically optimize your mental, and physical state.
Shiftwave is a breakthrough wellness system that uses intelligent patterns of pulsed-pressure wave variation to fully reset the nervous system and create a profound psychophysiological experience in as little as 10 minutes at the push of a button. By getting key systems of the body pumping and working in unison, the benefits extend from the cellular level all the way through a full mindset shift.
Shiftwave works by increasing and synchronizing the flow of blood, lymphatic fluid, cerebral spinal fluid, and other key aspects of the body. The result is an overall feeling of wellness and clarity with benefits that build over time. After just one session, people regularly report reduced pain and inflammation and compare the experience to a unique combination of massage, meditation, and breathwork all at once.
If you suffer from:
• Chronic muscular back pain
• Neck and anterior shoulder pain
• Elbow pain
• Achilles tendon or foot pain
• Limited range of motion due to scar tissue
• Muscular calf pain
Muscular pain affects millions of people every day. For some people this pain is a nuisance. But for many it is physically debilitating, reducing their quality of life and limited their ability to enjoy activities with family and friends.
Your chronic pain may be related to scar tissue and adhesions formed in the soft tissue or tendon/ligament post injury. A treatment with the enPuls Shockwave therapy effectively presses the reset button on chronic scarred and hard-to-treat soft tissue. Scar tissue and adhesions in many cases adhere to and put pressure on nerves. This can result in pain. By breaking up the scarring and adhesions, this helps take the pressure off the nerve and increase circulation to the area. This helps the body heal itself more efficiently and helps regain range of motion.
How does RSWT Technology work?
The enPuls delivers mechanical energy to the target tissue. The energy will treat area muscle pain and will increase circulation. It also positively affects the tissue tone, improving the effectiveness of your clinician’s other therapies.
How long will the pain relief last after treatment?
Most patients report some pain relief after the first treatment. However, the effects are most prominent after the second or third treatment. Your clinician will be able to help you through this process. Patients respond differently based on their condition.
Will I experience pain during treatment?
RSWT technology creates a mechanical stress that might cause mild discomfort during treatment. Depending on the desired depth of penetration, varying amounts of energy may be utilized to create the desired affect. Some soreness may be experienced post-treatment.
How many treatments are required on average?
The normal number of treatments for most conditions is 4 to 5. Certain conditions may require up to a maximum of 7 treatments. Four to ten days between treatments is recommended to allow the body to recover naturally.
Can I continue normal physical exercise or playing sports after RSWT?
Physical exercise promotes metabolism and the restructuring processes in the tissue. You may continue your physical activities within the guidelines set by your health care provider.
The sphenopalatine ganglion is a grouping of nerves that is linked to the trigeminal nerve – the main culprit involved in headaches. If you apply numbing medications or local anesthetic to the SPG, it can help reduce pain related to headache or facial pain. A traditional sphenopalatine ganglion block involves application of an anesthetic solution either on a cotton swab or with a targeted injection through the face. More recently, these procedures have become less invasive, opting for an intranasal (up the nose) approach.
SPG + Lyftogt P.I.T.®
At Boost, we are combining a SPG block with the technology of Lyftogt Perineural Injection Treatment®. For full information on Lyftogt P.I.T.® please click here. We use a buffered, diluted, glucose solution and it is introduced up the nose and applied directly to the sphenopalatine ganglion.
The solution used works to respond to neurogenic inflammation and restore homeostasis to the internal environment of the nerve. It “calms down” the nerves and allows them to return to their normal state. Restoring the nerves helps decreases pain related to headaches.
Safe and Effective
Dr. Mulcahy is one of a handful of providers that offer this treatment option. It is safe, quick and effective, with the procedure itself lasting only ten minutes. Many patients will experience almost immediate relief from acute headache symptoms. Some patients come in for these treatments when they feel a headache coming on, and it keeps severe symptoms at bay. Whatever your situation related to headaches, a sphenopalatine ganglion block at Boost could be the treatment you’ve been looking for.
Stellate ganglion blocks are like nervous system resets — they can give you a fresh start and help you fight problems like poor sleep, concentration issues, and irritability. At Boost, with our office in Victor, Idaho, double board-certified physician Allison Mulcahy, MD, is a certified stellate ganglion block provider who can help. Book your appointment by phone or through the online scheduler today.
What are stellate ganglion blocks?
Stellate ganglion blocks are injections of an anesthetic within the stellate ganglion, part of your sympathetic nervous system. This type of injection numbs a particular major nerve chain that lies within the front right or left side of your neck.
A stellate ganglion block prevents you from being locked into fight-or-flight freeze states too much, which improves your relaxation and general wellness.
When might I need a stellate ganglion block?
There are a few reasons to get a stellate ganglion block. It can help with chronic pain syndromes, but it’s particularly promising as a nervous system reset. Just like you need to reboot your computer sometimes, a brain reboot is helpful for your body.
A stellate ganglion block can relieve post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms almost instantly, with a remarkable 90% effectiveness rate. But you don’t need to have PTSD to benefit from a stellate ganglion block. If you’re having issues like poor-quality sleep, difficulty concentrating, memory lapses, frequent agitation, poor libido, or other issues related to excessive sympathetic nervous system activity, a stellate ganglion block can relieve your symptoms for improved general wellness.
Depending upon your specific health concerns or issues, you may find a combination approach of a stellate ganglion block and ketamine infusion therapy to be helpful. People with chronic pain or treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, or PTSD may benefit from this approach
How does the stellate ganglion block process work?
Dr. Mulcahy examines your neck anatomy closely using ultrasound, which helps her determine the ideal place for your injection. You lie on one side for the injection. You may need sedation for the injection, but it’s usually a well-tolerated procedure.
You stay in the office after the injection so Dr. Mulcahy can make sure you’re not having any anesthesia-related problems. Some people experience temporary Horner’s syndrome, a condition that causes issues like pupil shrinkage, red eye, eyelid drooping, and one stuffy nostril. This wears off within 2-8 hours.
As a certified stellate ganglion block and ketamine specialist with additional expertise in ultrasound-guided injections, Dr. Mulcahy has the unique skill set needed to deliver these treatments with the utmost efficiency and maximum results.
First, the physician (1) isolates growth factors from the patient's blood. Then (2), the provider uses a micro-needling device to create multiple micro-punctures --both driving the isolated growth factors into the skin & creating a stimulus for tightening and rejuvenation of the collagen of the face. Then (3), these provider paints the growth factors onto the micro-punctures so that the growth factors soak into the tissue for further stimulation of tightening and skin rejuvenation. The skin tightens, and glows with color, and scaring softens for a beautiful younger and very natural result.
With many ways to rejuvenate the face, why look for a better way? You may have tried some of the following strategies:
• Skin creams and facial peels by a skilled aesthetician can be very helpful but sometimes are just not strong enough to rejuvenate the tissue adequately.
• Retin A and other prescription medications (like hydraquinone) also improve texture and should be carefully prescribed in a way that gives benefit without adverse effects. But, still, the results can be slow and less than what's needed.
• Cosmetic surgery can remove excess skin and make the person appear younger. But, a surgical facelift can be more than what's needed for some people (especially when lots of extra skin is not the main problem).
• Hyaluronic acid (HA) fillers (like Juvederm and Restylane) lift the skin away from the bone to restore youthful volume and shape. But HA fillers can cause problems near the eye. Also, the injector of HA fillers can chase a wrinkle and create a shape that looks foreign to the person's face or even foreign to this planet. The HA fillers do little to improve skin tone and texture.
Integrative medicine uses an evidence-based approach to improve your health and wellness. Integrative medicine focuses on you as a whole person and not just your illness or disease. While it seeks to understand the underlying cause of your symptoms or condition, it does so by looking at your complete mind, body, and spirit. Integrative medicine believes your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs affect your health. It considers those needs rely on each other and affects your entire well-being.
As an expert in health optimization, Dr. Mulcahy can provide recommendations based on your health history and functional labs. As an expert in yourself, you can be successful at implementing them! This is where a Functional Health Coach can help.
Health coaches are behavior change experts. We support clients in finding their own strategies and motivation for change, helping them overcome obstacles, and implementing the doctor’s protocols. We don’t operate on the “expert model” that’s so common in healthcare. We don’t lecture, prescribe, or simply dispense advice. Instead, we empower others to make a choice for health, including healthier behaviors, for themselves.
Functional Health Coaches are also trained in Functional Health, the foundation of Functional Medicine, which makes us perfect liaisons between you and Dr. Mulcahy. As Patient Care Coordinators, we help you with the logistics of following your personalized care plan, increasing your success!
Precision medicine is a genetics based approach to personalized care. Decode your DNA and integrate your biometrics and lifestyle factors to optimize your wellness plan
Ketamine infusions offer transformative results for people with chronic pain, depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Allison Mulcahy, MD is a double board-certified physician and a certified ketamine and stellate ganglion block provider who offers innovative solutions to people who are searching for hope and relief from their persistent symptoms.
Stellate ganglion blocks are like nervous system resets — they can give you a fresh start and help you fight problems like poor sleep, concentration issues, and irritability. At Boost, double board-certified physician Allison Mulcahy, MD, is a certified stellate ganglion block provider who can help.
Ozone is a highly active detoxifying biological agent that has health-promoting and healing properties. Used for more than 100 years as a health treatment worldwide (Austria, Russia, China, Italy, Germany, Egypt, Cuba, Thailand, Spain, Brazil, France), Ozone Therapy has proven in thousands of cases to be a valuable remedy for a wide range of ailments. It also works tremendously as a complementary treatment for many conditions, speeds healing in many other common afflictions and can accelerate healing from surgery.
Muscular pain affects millions of people every day. For some people, this pain is a nuisance. But for many, it is physically debilitating, reducing their quality of life and limiting their ability to enjoy activities with family and friends.
Your chronic pain may be related to scar tissue and adhesions formed in the soft tissue or tendon/ligament post-injury. A treatment with the enPuls Shockwave therapy effectively presses the reset button on chronic scarred and hard-to-treat soft tissue. Scar tissue and adhesions in many cases adhere to and put pressure on nerves. This can result in pain. By breaking up the scarring and adhesions, this helps take the pressure off the nerve and increase circulation to the area. This helps the body heal itself more efficiently and helps regain range of motion.
Hyrodissection is essentially the release of a trapped nerve using fluid. Broken down, “hydro” means water, and “dissect” means to separate. Often, nerves become trapped as a result of tight muscles or connective tissue. When this occurs, circulation to the entrapped nerve decreases significantly, resulting in neuropathic symptoms such as numbness and tingling, radiating pain, “pins and needles,” weakness, and pain in the area around the nerve compression.
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections use supercharged healing platelets from your own blood to stimulate healing. At Boost, experienced double board-certified physician Allison Mulcahy, MD, offers PRP injections to help with healing of muscle, tendon, and ligament injuries.
Sometimes, taking your daily vitamins just isn’t enough. To give your health and vitality a noticeable boost, IV therapy offers a quick and convenient treatment designed to boost your performance and keep you feeling your best.
Alleviate: Reduce bloating, irritability, abdominal discomfort and more.
Brainstorm: May improve overall brain function, increase memory recall and certain aspects of learning. Get-Up-And-Go: Burn fat, feel energized and boost your metabolism.
Glutathione: Glutathione is a powerful antioxidant made that might help to prevent many diseases and support the immune system.
Immunity:
Strengthen your immune system and feel better faster.
Inner Beauty: Reduce appearance of wrinkles, acne and tired skin.
Iron: Help to boost your iron levels to improve energy levels.
Myer's Cocktail: Reduce seasonal allergies, fatigue, and inflammation, and restore
natural balance.
Quench: Hydrate and combat fatigue from dehydration.
Reboot: When you need to hit the reset button after a long night out, combat hangover-related symptoms like dehydration, headache and nausea.
Recovery & Performance: Decrease recovery time and enhance your athletic performance.
NAD has the ability to protect tissues, induce DNA repair, and increase lifespan. Sub-optimal levels of NAD are often associated with health problems, including addiction, degenerative diseases, anxiety, depression, PTSD, sleep disorders, and autism. Stress and inflammation lead to decreased levels of NAD. A nutrient-poor diet and/or malabsorption can also result in low NAD.
The fastest way to get your NAD levels up is with NAD IV treatments which directly raise your NAD levels. NAD BR+ is NAD Brain Restoration Therapy, a nutrient-based IV therapy pioneered by Dr. Richard Metsayer, that restores NAD. The NAD BR+ proprietary supplements are thought to be the best on the market by many. It’s important to know that if you have genetic mutations in your ability to methylate, the most common being the MTHFR gene, you will need to supplement with methyl donors such as creatine, trimethylglycine (betaine), or folate.
Conditions Treated
Anxiety • Arthritis
Back pain
Chronic pain
Depression
Neuropathy
Orthopedic Problems
Pain • PTSD
Rotator cuff injury
Sleep Problems
This treatment first discovered and later significantly developed by Dr. John Lyftogt (pronounced “Liftoff”), consists of a series of small injections immediately under the skin targeting painful areas where the nerves are sensitive, with simple and natural substances. Dr. Lyftogt uses a buffered D5W (dextrose 5% in sterile water) with a neutral pH of 7.4. Dr. Lyftogt was the first person to use D5W to effectively treat chronic neuropathic pain and disability. Dr. Lyftogt found that treating painful nerves is an effective way to treat and extinguish chronic neuropathic pain.
The numbers of women who suffer from sexual problems–30-50% (depending upon the age) are discouraging (the higher incidence is seen in younger women). And remember, these numbers only include women who are psychologically distressed. If a woman avoids sex because of one of these problems but claims to not be bothered by the lack of sexual activity, then she’s not counted in these statistics. Is that really the best way to tabulate the incidence of a problem? Perhaps. But, suppose we didn’t count high cholesterol as a problem unless it bothered the patient with a heart attack? Is it possible that a woman just learns to tolerate less than optimal sexual activity (rather than Activating the Female Orgasm System) and so eventually does not consider the sexual condition to be a problem?
A SPECIFIC Method, protected by the US Patent & Trademark office of using blood-derived growth factors to rejuvenate the penis (also known as the P-Shot®).
Conditions Treated:
Anxiety • Erectile Dysfunction • Sexual Dysfunction
First, Dr. Mulcahy (1) isolates growth factors from the patient's blood. Then (2), Dr. Mulcahy uses a micro-needling device to create multiple micro-punctures -- both driving the isolated growth factors into the skin & creating a stimulus for tightening and rejuvenation of the collagen of the face. Then (3), Dr. Mulcahy paints the growth factors onto the micro-punctures so that the growth factors soak into the tissue for further stimulation of tightening and skin rejuvenation. The skin tightens, and glows with color, and scaring softens for a beautiful younger and very natural result.
Peptides are amino acids that have linked together. When peptides link together, they form proteins.
Peptides are the building blocks of collagen and elastin fibers in the skin, which is why you may have seen them in your youth serums or gels.
Other peptides you may be familiar with are glutathione, our master antioxidant often used to reduce oxidative stress. Also, insulin is used to regulate blood sugar.
Some peptides fight bacterial and fungal infections and influence growth hormone release, extracellular matrix production, and nerve cell growth and migration.
Shiftwave is a breakthrough wellness system that uses intelligent patterns of pulsed-pressure wave variation to fully reset the nervous system and create a profound psychophysiological experience in as little as 10 minutes at the push of a button. By getting key systems of the body pumping and working in unison, the benefits extend from the cellular level all the way through a full mindset shift.
Red Light - Delivered at 660nm, red light is readily absorbed by surface tissues and cells, leading to enhanced skin health and healing.
Near-Infrared Light - Delivered at 850nm, near-infrared (NIR) light is invisible to the human eye and penetrates deeper tissues, leading to enhanced recovery and inflammation support.
Recovery+ ModeRecovery+ delivers continuous red light and pulsed NIR light to boost the body’s natural recovery, healing, and regeneration process. It’s ideal for post-workout treatments.
Imagine your cells as batteries — daily stressors slowly drain them of the energy they need to function optimally. By the end of the day, your body, mind, and soul may feel completely depleted. That’s where PEMF technology comes in! PEMF generates energy at the cellular level without medically invasive procedures. This natural energy amplifies the body to function more effectively for overall wellness. By stimulating and exercising the cell, PEMF addresses dysfunction where it starts (at the cellular level). Users often report feeling relaxed during a PEMF session and energized afterward!
Functional medicine is root-cause medicine that looks at the body as an interconnected whole within a larger environment. We recognize that in order to treat one part of the body, all other parts must also be considered.
Regenerative medicine is a field of medicine that aims to repair or replace damaged or diseased cells, tissues, and organs with healthy ones. It involves the use of a range of innovative techniques and technologies, such as stem cells, tissue engineering, gene therapy, and biomaterials, to restore the structure and function of damaged or lost tissues and organs.
Sound healing is a holistic therapy that uses sound waves to promote healing and relaxation. It is based on the principle that everything in the universe is in a state of vibration, including the human body. By using specific frequencies and vibrations, sound healing aims to restore the natural harmony and balance of the body and mind.
Supplements are used for a variety of reasons, primarily to help people meet their nutritional needs, support their health and wellbeing, and prevent or treat specific health conditions. Here are some reasons why people use supplements:
Nutritional support: Supplements can help fill in the gaps in the diet, providing vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that may be lacking in the diet.
Health promotion: Some supplements have been shown to support overall health and wellbeing, such as probiotics, omega-3 fatty acids, and certain herbal supplements.
Prevention and treatment of specific health conditions: Some supplements are used to prevent or treat specific health conditions.
The sphenopalatine ganglion is a grouping of nerves that is linked to the trigeminal nerve – the main culprit involved in headaches. If you apply numbing medications or local anesthetic to the SPG, it can help reduce pain related to headache or facial pain. A traditional sphenopalatine ganglion block involves application of an anesthetic solution either on a cotton swab or with a targeted injection through the face. More recently, these procedures have become less invasive, opting for an intranasal (up the nose) approach.
