You will experience a comprehensive visit where Dr. Prego will elicit a full picture of each patient, including the presenting conditions and health concerns, medical history, diet, lifestyle, and other health habits.
Dr. Prego will make specific suggestions to each patient for the current concerns and to improve overall health. Dr. Prego supports the patient as a full and active part of the healing process.
Clinical Nutrition
Naturopathic physicians understand that what you eat is the basis for your health. Adopting a healthy diet is often the first step towards correcting health problems. Many medical conditions can be helped more effectively with foods and nutritional supplements than they can by other means, but with fewer complications and side effects. Dr. Prego may use specific individual diets, fasting, and nutritional supplements with their patients.
Botanical Medicine
Plants have powerful healing properties. Many pharmaceutical drugs have their origins in plant substances. Dr. Prego uses plant substances for their healing effects and nutritional value.
Homeopathic Medicine
This gentle yet effective system of medicine is more than 200 years old and is based on the principle that 'Like cures Like'. Homeopathic medicines are very small doses of natural substances that can stimulate the body's self-healing response without side effects. Some conditions for which conventional medicine has no effective treatments will respond well to homeopathy.
Physical Medicine
Naturopathic medicine includes methods of therapeutic manipulation for muscles and bones. Dr. Prego may also employ therapeutic exercise, massage, hydrotherapy, gentle electrical therapies, ultrasound, and heat and cold. These services are not available in NY until the licensing law is passed.
Lifestyle Counseling and Stress Management
Mental attitudes and emotional states can be important elements in healing and disease. Dr. Prego is trained in counseling, nutritional balancing, and stress management. He also attends to environmental and lifestyle factors that affect health.
Minor Surgery
As a primary care doctor, Dr. Prego can perform in-office minor surgery including repair of superficial wounds and removal of foreign bodies, warts and cysts with local anesthesia. These services are not available in NY until the licensing law is passed.
