An Interview with Dr. Shawn Palmer N.D.: More About Aspen Creek Naturopathic Clinic in Laramie, Wyoming
Can you tell us about your practice?
.My name is D. Shawn Palmer, I’m a naturopathic doctor. Ive been in business for almost 15 years. I see a broad range of different kinds of issues. People come to me with a particular complaint, anything from headaches to urine discomfort to neck pain. A lot of my clients are either people who are looking for something that’s different because maybe they’re trying to avoid surgery or medication usages or they’ve already tried a lot of things and nothing else has worked. I see a lot of people who are looking for something to help with their problem because they’re not sure what else to do.
Thats actually one of the reasons why I got into doing more with pain management with people because I think there are a lot of people who've already done a lot of things like surgery, physical therapy, chiropractic, or even acupuncture and they’re still suffering and they’re not sure what else to do. One of the things I wanted to do was to bring another option to town that can help with those people. That could be anything from someone who has neuropathy such as post-chemotherapy neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy, or neuropathy that you don’t know why it happened, back pain, foot pain, or neck pain where you might have done two or three surveys and still having problems.
You might want to look at another option with us that is more conservative before you jump into doing surgery. We offer that niche for people who are just not really sure what else to do and maybe can solve problems that perhaps some other professions aren’t able to get at.
What makes you different from other doctors?
I try never to tell a client that it’s all in their head because usually it’s not. I have a firm belief that most problems have have a solution. I can be very persistent about trying to solve peoples problems. I also think it’s very important to not make people feel guilty for seeing other practitioners so I also try to play well with other services in town. I think that’s important because I certainly dont do everything so I think its important to be able to work within the context of the kind of other therapies someone is doing.
A lot of what I’m trying to do is trying to find the thing that hasn't been done yet and a lot of times it’s by taking a different point or angle that is usually what ends up allowing you to solve the problem. Whether that person has already seen two or three conventional doctors already seen two or three alternative medicine practitioners, I try to take the whole of what’s already been tried and try to find the thing that hasn't been tried yet. A lot of times by doing that that’s when you can find a solution for somebody.
What services do you offer?
We offer a lot of different services. We do a lot of traditional naturopathic services such as anything from diet changes cell phone advice and tele-health, herbal advice, and classical homeopathy. We also have a range of manual therapies that we do for chronic pain issues such as anything from coldasal therapy to old techniques derived from the osteopathic profession such as positional release techniques, neurafascial release techniques, and pain neutralization technique.
One of the techniques we offer is frequency specific micro current which is a therapy that has been around for over 100 years. It is a therapy that used to be done by a lot of conventional medial doctors and then kind of lost favor and now coming back.
Can you tell us about your pain management therapies?
Ive actually been working with pain at some level with clients through my whole practice because that’s probably one of the biggest issues people struggle with. A lot of people can live with some gastrointestinal upset or other issues but when they hurt a lot of people really would like to not be hurting anymore, especially since it can interact with large parts of their life whether sleep or starts to not be able to do things you used to like playing with your kids or grandkids or just being all go and enjoy a nice walk in the mountains.
For me I’ve always been on a quest of how I can help more people experiencing pain, especially the people who aren't being held in town. That’s why I was really interested in getting into a new pain technique called frequency specific micro current. What it allows me to do is help treat a broader range of pain and sometimes the forms of pain that people are still struggling with. We’ve done work with how to reduce pain from rotator cuff tears and reducing pain associated with a meniscal tear which is one of the things that there’s not a lot of other options outside of surgery for. I’ve helped people with foot pain of various kinds and different types of neuropathy and bells palsy type of problems. We can treat most most muscular skeletal issues. This seems to be helpful for issues that are not responding to other therapies. This kind of therapy may even be helpful for people who have pain from cancer. It might be helpful for someone in a terminal state. It may be helpful for people who have pain from missing limbs or have some form of fibromyalgia.
There’s a pretty broad range of pain situations that it can be helpful for. I’ve also done some nice work with people who have chronic pain, or ovarian pain and most of the time it works. I usually know within a few visits if it’s worth your time.
Do you have any promotions for your pain management treatments?
One of my goals is to help people who aren’t being helped. I want to invite new people to come in and try to use our holistic pain management services. I know one of the things people in those situations can run into its cost. Right now it is only $20 per visit for the first four treatments for existing clients. If you’d like to be come a new client we’ll give you half off your first visit if you’re coming in with a pain issue. We want to give you a low-cost way to give you a chance to see if this seems a treatment that will work for you. Read some testimonials from other clients and contact me to schedule an appointment.
What’s the best way to contact you?
Usually you can get a hold of me by phone. If I don’t answer just leave me a message. I always try to get back to people within a couple hours or if not by the next day because I am with clients pretty often. I also respond to inquiries from my website or by email. I prefer a call and you can get a hold of me at (307) 742-6275.
