We are having a Meet, Greet and Tour of the Stram Center on our LYME AWARENESS DAY, Friday, May 20th, from 3-5pm. Meet Dr. Stram and his team, win prizes and services, and tour our facility!
Located at 90 Adams Place Delmar NY, 15 minutes from Central Albany.
*Masks recommended*
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Lyme Disease: Who Can Be Affected? | Diagnosis & Lyme disease treatment
Podcast: Dr. Korey DiRoma & Dr. Masha
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At the Stram Center we vow to continue our education on Lyme Disease research, stay up to date on the most effective testing and all the safe available therapies. Moreover, our years of experience in treating patients according to the whole person-integrative medicine approach allows us the most effective way to care for our patients.
The tick-borne bacterium or spirochete (Borrelia burgdorferi) protects itself by creating a biofilm to hide from its host’s immune system. Nestling in tissues further protected by creating inflammation, and evading blood flow, Borrelia can often lie dormant for years.
Often antibiotic therapies fall short of providing symptomatic relief, especially when blood flow cannot reach the bacteria so well guarded. With hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) the plasma becomes saturated with a high load of oxygen, not otherwise possible, resulting in an elevation of tissue oxygenation, bypassing the need for hemoglobin carried by red blood cells. Now, the bacteria hiding from its hosts immune warfare carried by blood, has nowhere to hide from the deluge of oxygen, which is lethal to this bacteria. Further, increased oxygen levels from HBOT can increase white blood cell activity and enhance the efficiency of bactericidal action of white blood cells.
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Stram Center wellness intravenous therapies offer a wide variety of vitamin, mineral and amino acid IV drips to achieve optimal wellness: from boosting immunity, increasing energy, reducing the signs of aging, to enhancing cognitive and physical performance and more...
No medical consultation necessary.
Our IV therapies are provided in a safe, serene atmosphere so you can sit back and relax while feeling confident knowing that medical staff are ALWAYS right there. Your safety is our top priority.
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As the weather is getting warmer and we are emerging from our winter hibernations through spring blossoms and soon into early summer, we will see a rise in tick borne infectious disease. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection we get from infected ticks. Symptoms of the initial infection may or may not include a bullseye rash but can also include fever, headache, chills, fatigue, muscle and joint aches, and swollen lymph nodes. If the infection isn’t treated promptly, symptoms can progress into neurological tissue and cause systemic and local inflammation that manifests as arthritis, severe joint and nerve pain, dizziness and cognitive issues, and memory problems. |
A patient’s response to chronic illness is unique – based upon many factors ranging from emotional response to the disease, individual physical symptoms, immune response and the duration of the disease itself. With this rising prevalence of chronic illness, people are seeking new means for treatment for their health concerns. One of these methods is IV (intravenous) therapy. A person with chronic illness often needs both treatment of their ailment at the root cause, and a boost that will allow the body to restore itself to its natural state of harmony. IV therapies can perform both functions for the best outcomes in your healing process.
The use of intravenous allows for increased dosages than cannot otherwise be achieved through oral dosing, as well as bypassing any malabsorption issues that may exist in the digestive tract. This can be especially true with antibiotic therapies, averting side effects so often seen through oral antibiotic regimens. Additionally, higher serum concentrations achieved in IV therapy can produce more marked improvements and in shorter time frame.
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At the Stram Center, we recognize that mental health is often the basis of your potential to navigate life’s challenges as well as to heal from physical illness. Understanding your full self, including traumas and difficulties you may have experienced, is often the first step to learn what your unique strategies are in the face of life’s difficulties. Quality healthcare should include support from professionals who understand how to fully listen to you and your needs.
For Lyme and chronic illness patients specifically, we so often hear that their prior experiences in mainstream medicine included medical gaslighting; this can have long-lasting physical, psychological, and emotional affects that can influence a person’s ability to restore health.
Mental health awareness month is a time to recognize the need for better mental health care for those in your community.
How can you make a difference?
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For individuals affected by Lyme disease, treatment can take many forms. There are medicines and herbals. Complimentary therapies and mental health support. And diet can make a substantial impact for most people. Rather than one particular “Lyme diet”, nutrition is as individualized throughout one’s Lyme healing journey as it is throughout one’s lifetime. No one “diet” is meant to serve a person their entire lives—nutrition therapy is meant to shape one’s particular needs at any life stage or healing phase. |
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One common theory about patients with long-term COVID-19 symptoms is that the virus possibly remains in their bodies in some small form. Maybe the simplest explanation for why some long-haulers aren’t recovering is that, even if they test negative, they may in fact still harbor a COVID infection somewhere in their body.
A similar argument over what drives chronic symptoms — persistent infection versus lingering inflammation from a past infection — appears prominently in the study of Lyme disease. Some people infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the tick-borne bacterium that causes Lyme, fail to recover after typical antibiotic treatment. Patients may refer to this illness as “chronic Lyme disease,” and some doctors prefer to call it “post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome,” because they’re not sure an infection is still there.
Other theories of the reasoning behind long-COVID and chronic Lyme include the concept that our immune systems continue to react, even though the infection has passed. The continued reaction may be due to an immune-inflammatory response; the causes are almost certainly multifactorial, but may involve overzealous immune responses, cardiopulmonary or systemic inflammation, vascular inflammation or clotting disorders, and direct damage from viral and bacterial replication during acute illness.
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Platelet rich plasma is an injection procedure that uses concentrates from your own blood, the platelet rich portion of your plasma, to help your body heal and regenerate, naturally.
Hair loss or thinning is a sensitive issue affecting both men and women. It can be attributed to many factors such as hormonal dysregulation, poor nutrient status, genetic predisposition, and stress. The best way to tackle hair loss is to optimize the internal environment of the body (hormones, DHT, and inflammatory markers) in conjunction with external modalities such as PRP hair restoration. The PRP is injected into the affected areas in a series of quick injections into the scalp. This PRP contains growth factors and nutrients that may help enhance the hair density, quality, and increase blood flow to the scalp in order to re-stimulate the hair follicles to regenerate. The therapy is done once every 30 days for 3 months, then every three months as follow up care. Working with a team of integrative providers can provide the best avenue for healthy results.
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Don’t Get Ticked off, Be Tick Smart
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With the warm weather we are all starting to spend more time outside and venturing on to grassy playing fields and into the woods. We are not the only ones who emerge from hibernation with the warming temperatures, ticks also come out to play. We need to be aware of how to prevent tick bites and what to do if we get one!
Prevention:
Prevention is really the best medicine when it comes to tick bites and tick-borne infections like Lyme disease! Lyme and other tick-borne infections can be life altering for some people and never getting infected is the easiest way to make sure that you don’t find out if you are someone who will get really sick. Most of us have heard about tucking our pant legs into our socks when we hike and spraying our shoes (not our skin) with permethrin bug spray can help prevent ticks from getting ahold of your juicy skin for a bite to eat. Other tips for avoiding tick bites include staying out of the tall grass and doing a tick check (every time!) when you get home from being out in a grassy or woodsy area. Make sure to check everywhere, all the nooks and crannies of your body. Ticks usually grab onto your clothing low down and then climb up, so your groin, armpit or behind the ears are a perfect spot for them to hide. They also like your hair, so really, they can be anywhere!
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Celebrating our HBOT technician and front desk assistant, John White.
John is ready to do anything to help our work flow.
He is flexible, smart, funny, easy going, and an amazing team player.
When John is not giving his all at the Stram Center, he enjoys spending time on the golf course, and we hear he is very good!
Thank you, John!
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Questions? Call us: 518-689-2244 |
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