Back to Balance Natural Holistic Integrative Functional Medical Clinic  in Carbondale Colorado

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What is a Naturopathic Doctor?

Naturopathic doctors (NDs) are practitioners trained in natural medicine. They are educated in the conventional medical sciences, but they are not medical doctors (MDs). Naturopathic doctors treat disease and restore health using therapies from the sciences of clinical nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy, physical medicine, exercise therapy, counseling, and hydrotherapy. Naturopathic Doctors tailor these approaches to the needs of an individual patient. Naturopathic medicine, the original function medicine, is effective in treating most health problems, whether acute or chronic.

In practice, naturopathic doctors perform physical examinations, laboratory testing, gynecological exams, nutritional and dietary assessments, microbiome testing, metabolic analysis, allergy testing, X-ray examinations, and other diagnostic tests. Naturopathic Doctors combine and tailor treatments to the needs of the individual based on a cogent philosophy that acknowledges the patient as a participant.

The naturopathic doctor has a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (ND) degree from a four-year graduate level naturopathic medical college. Naturopathic doctors must pass a national or state-level board examination and their actions are subject to review by a State Regulatory Agency.

At Back to Balance our two Naturopathic Doctors are: 

Dr. Hilary Back who specializes in women's health and hormones and Dr. Casey Bowen who is our in house fertility expert. 

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