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Helping you achieve vibrant health through disease prevention, pain elimination and nutritional consulting.

Focusing on the Individual

Dr. Suzanne Alt sees each patient as a unique individual and focuses on preventive medicine and holistic healing. Dr. Alt uses herbal supplements, bio-identical hormones and homeopathy as first line options for her patients.

As an osteopath, Dr. Alt under-stands the intricate interrelationships within the body and she uses this knowledge to help people of all ages with:

• Pain management
• Nutritional Counseling
• Healing and pain alleviation through osteopathic manipulation

“ I am ready to help anyone who wants to help themselves,” Dr. Alt says.

Reducing and Managing Pain

Dr. Alt’s approach to pain begins with nutrition and lifestyle coaching. As a holistic practitioner, she analyzes the entire body system. Some of the tools she uses to help people reduce and eliminate pain include:

• Medication management
• Counseling on nutritional and tissue health
• Natural hormonal balancing
• Osteopathic manipulation
• EMG evaluations
• Evaluation and explanations of x-ray studies
• Anesthesia blocks

Healing Joints and Easing Pain through Prolotherapy

Prolotherapy is a well-respected, non-invasive method of healing joints and easing pain.
Through prolotherapy, torn ligaments and cartilage are stimulated to repair themselves, often helping patients avoid steroid injections and surgeries. This can also result in no more pain medication and no more pain. Dr. Alt works with sports teams and individuals, encouraging the body to heal itself. Dr. Alt is an active member of the American Academy of Sclerotherapy and Pain Management, a recognized Subspecialty of the American Osteopathic Association.

Prolotherapy recreates inflammation in joints, ligaments and tendons where laxity has allowed the development of pain, cartilage tears, and loss of strength. Dr. Alt uses ultrasound to identify specific tears of the area of concern.

Restoring the Body’s Healing Functions with Osteopathic Manipulations
Dr. Alt uses her hands and her heart to do body osteopathic treatments, cranial sacral manipulation, and foot manipulation to restore the body’s healing function. Dr. Alt integrates her osteopathic training to help every aspect of each body system.

Dr. Alt helps reduce pain and return strength by manipulating trouble areas such as necks, rib cages, low back, pelvis, legs, and feet. She also uses cranial sacral manipulation, helping balancing and control the body and energy functions.

How does manipulation help people. How does cranial sacral help people?

Nutrition

Dr. Alt does nutritional consultations independently or in conjunction with her colleague Lisa Everett, Certified Clinical Nutritionist. Nutrition is the basis of healing the body to prevent disease and rid ourselves of pain

Helping Women Be Their Best

Dr. Alt helps women understand, manage and eliminate difficult symptoms from PMS or from the menopausal transition. She does pap smears, pelvic examinations and fits cervical caps as a safe and easy barrier birth control method. She helps women solve their stress incontinence problems.

Dr. Alt’s Background

Dr. Alt earned a master’s degree in education and coached sports at the college level before attending medical school at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri, the founding school of Osteopathy. Dr. Alt was president of her medical class.

Dr. Alt is board certified in Family Practice and Anesthesia-Pain Management. She has practiced family medicine, emergency medicine, anesthesia, anesthesia pain management. She has consulted in setting up Pain Clinics around the United States. She has evolved her practice to include natural medicine, prolotherapy/ sclerotherapy, nutritional therapy, and hormonal balancing using bio-identical natural hormones.

Dr. Alt is board certified in Holistic Medicine.

Dr. Alt has dual practices in Kirksville, Missouri and in Mission, Kansas with the Kansas City Holistic Centre.

Dr. Alt accepts most health insurance

• Most PPO Insurance
• Medicare

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