Robert Martin, MD In Wasilla Alaska Provides Sports and Orthopedic Medicine And General Practice
Our General Practice and Sports Rehab Medical Office Offers You Effective, Patient-Centered Health Care So You Can Enjoy The Sports and Recreational Activities You Love
Dr. Martin provides you with conventional and alternative sports and orthopedic medical therapies that renew, revitalize, rejuvenate, restore and repair injured areas of your body:
- Degenerative Arthritis Of the Hip and Knee
- Rotator Cuff Tears
- Tennis Elbow Pain
- Achilles Tendon Problems
- Knee Injuries
Dr. Robert Martin:
- Helps your body heal from injuries and diseases.
- Incorporates optimal nutrition to speed your healing.
- Makes available to you effective conventional and alternative therapies.
- Is the only Alaskan Doctor ever to be selected by the US Olympic Committee to be a Team Physician for Olympic Athletes in the USA and Korea.
- Specializes in NON- SURGICAL evaluation and treatment of common injuries to all age groups and athletic ability.
- Offers basic general medical care for your children, teenagers, and aging parents.
PLATELET RICH PLASMA (PRP) is an amazing therapy used by golf professional Tiger Woods, Pittsburgh Steeler Hines Ward, Toronto Maple Leaf Gary Roberts and many other professional athletes. This therapy is now available in Wasilla, Alaska.
Dr. Martin says, “Over 90% of sports injuries don’t require surgery so why go to a surgeon?”
He is introducing to Alaska residents a non-surgical approach that treats acute and chronic tendon and ligament injuries. Many professional athletes personally choose this amazing therapy!
Platelet-Rich–Plasma (PRP) is an autologous platelet concentrate. It harnesses your body’s own NATURAL HEALING POWER to stimulate the repair of your damaged tissues. Naturally occurring healing proteins and growth factors in your blood enhance your body’s own natural repair process.
How does the Platelet-Rich-Plasma work?
A small amount of your own blood is withdrawn. Then it is highly concentrated by high speed spinning in an advanced, state-of-the-art centrifuge.
This concentrated blood is then injected directly into your damaged tissue. Ultrasound is used to make sure the concentrated blood arrives at exactly the correct spot to optimize and speed your healing.
The treatment:
- Takes less than one hour.
- Is done right in the office.
- And the results are permanent.
If physical therapy, cortisone injections, chiropractic, medications or even surgery have not restored you to the levels of health and pain-free functioning you desire, then PRP may be the therapy you have been desperately searching for.
Prolotherapy/Regenerative Injection Therapy
This therapy is an injection technique administered in the office. It relieves chronic pain caused by damage to your underlying ligament or tendon structures.
It involves injecting a small amount of Novocain and dextrose (a form of sugar) or similar solutions, directly into damaged area. The solution stimulates your body’s own natural healing and repair processes.
The concept behind prolotherapy dates as far back as the ancient Greeks. Hippocrates actually used a similar therapy to treat athletes with unstable shoulders.
He described touching the tip of a slender hot metal rod to the damaged ligaments. This “cauterized” the ligaments causing them to tighten up.
It is interesting to note that many current Orthopedic Surgeons use similar techniques today. Lasers and heat probes provide similar benefits.
Modern prolotherapy traces its roots to the early 20th century. George Hackett MD, a surgeon from Ohio, started treating patients with chronic low back pain. He injected his patients’ ligaments and the surrounding areas. His patients improved 80% of the time.
Philosophy
Dr. Martin provides you with an effective rehabilitation program for your injuries at home, in sports and while at play. The goal is to restore the normal function and healing of your body as fast and hassle-free as possible. Optimum nutrition and vitamin/herbal supplements assist your body in the healing process.
There are specific therapies to help heal each area of your body:
- Heart
- Lungs
- Circulatory System
- Hormones
- Digestion and Elimination
- Brain
- Muscles, joints and bones
Heart attacks, strokes and degenerative diseases respond well to alternative medicine therapies.
Dr. Martin provides you numerous options to help you triumph over you medical challenges and injuries. He uses a broad spectrum of healing therapies to help you look and feel your best every day of you life at any age.
Dr. Bob became interested in folk medicine and “natural” healing when he attended Medical School at Georgetown University. He personally benefitted from many of the therapies provided at his office.
Dr. Martin believes in continuing education. Even after he became a young doctor, he attended numerous classes, seminars, trainings and professional educational meetings.
For over 30 years he has searched for conventional and alternative medical therapies that provide you with the results you want. He wants to avoid any disastrous, adverse side effects by utilizing the most effective therapy at the correct time.
Dr. Martin guarantees he will always give you his best. He feels you benefit from knowing the truth. All therapies available at his office:
- Are not panaceas.
- Don’t cure everything under the sun.
- Do not always work on everyone.
- Are not the best choice for some patients.
Contact us at:
Robert Martin, M.D. APC, Wasilla, AK. 99654 501 N. Knik St. tel: 907-376-5284 fax: 907-373-2464 email: rmartin@robertmartinmd.com
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I suffered for almost three years with a pain that only intensified within that time. I was tested, poked, xrayed, mri’d you name if an they did it I did not have stones. I would have to get into a fetal position as the pain progressed until it the pain supsided. Finaly I ended up in the emergency a year ago and was kept there for a week for observation. Again, the resident doctor ran every test you can imagine. I asked when I was admitted into the hopital that my surgeron be part of the team that observes me. Finally the resident doctor gave up and my surgeon took over. He immediately asked to have me get this test were they injected iodine into the gallbladder, what he found was that my gullbladder was functioning at level 2, the lowest it should actually function is level 35. He knew exactly what to do and removed the gallbladder at the same time he found a hernia that spanned from one side to the other behind my navel so he removed that also. I have had so much trouble eating, I have tried different foods, diets, anything my research tells me. This is my issue, when I eat, it sits in the upper part of my stomach for hours, causes pain and discomfort, it even makes me feel like I have to use my inhaler, so what I do is give myself an enima to give me some relief. This goes on for a while by then it’s been a couple days. I have no real appetite, I eat only because I have become enimic. My stomach protrudes like I am pregnant all the time and when I ask my doctors they give me diets to follow. No matter what I eat my stomach can seem to process it. My stools come out hard and it is very painful when they do. I have tried stool softeners and such but they cause gas. My husband heard you on the radio and heard you talk about some enzimes, it makes sense can you tell me which ones you advice.
Thank you,
Stella Fisher
please excuse the spelling, it was not intentional. I submitted before I checked the spelling.