Lyme Disease
Our location in the Hudson Valley places Bock Integrative Medicine in the heart of this epidemic and has given us many years of experience to become leaders in this challenging field.
Lyme Disease is the subject of great controversy in the medical community. Not only is there disagreement regarding appropriate treatment, but even questions regarding prevalence and diagnosis remain hotly debated.
How Many People Get Lyme Disease per Year?
It is more appropriately called tick-borne diseases given the multiple infectious agents that may be involved. Many different organisms affecting many different systems can lead to a complex array of symptoms: Tick-borne disease requires a knowledgeable practitioner with an understanding of the complexity of these disorders and their treatment.
The somber reality of the CDC statistics are compounded when considering the multitude of cases missed primarily pediatric!
Our approach at Bock Integrative Medicine is in line with ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society), taking an inclusive diagnostic approach considering symptoms, physical findings and laboratory results and implementing an individualized comprehensive treatment protocol.
Lyme Disease is the perfect example of a condition that requires comprehensive physiologic balance (immune, hormonal, nutritional, psycho social) in addition to antimicrobial. It is this model of individualized care that has the best chance for positive clinical response.
Lyme disease, which we call Tick Borne Disease, is complicated and there are many things about it that we don’t fully understand, but our approach is reflected in the answers to these common questions: