Our Functional Medicine, Acupuncture & Integrative Care Philosophy
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Dr. Martina Sturm combines Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, functional medicine, and advanced diagnostic evaluation to create personalized care for chronic illness, persistent symptoms, pain, injury, recovery, and health optimization.
Her approach is grounded in a simple clinical principle: identify the underlying patterns contributing to symptoms, restore healthy physiology, regulate the nervous system, and support the body’s capacity for repair, recovery, and long-term resilience.
Care is individualized around your symptoms, health history, laboratory findings, treatment tolerance, lifestyle, environmental exposures, and goals.
Treatment can incorporate acupuncture, functional medicine, nutrition and lifestyle medicine, herbal medicine, targeted nutraceuticals, environmental medicine, movement-based rehabilitation, and other clinically appropriate therapies.
What Dr. Martina Specializes In
Dr. Martina works with patients navigating chronic illness, persistent symptoms, pain, injury, recovery, and health optimization through a systems-based, multidisciplinary approach.
Her areas of clinical focus include:
Chronic illness, multisystem symptoms, fatigue, and reduced resilience
Mold-related illness, environmental exposures, and detoxification support
Gut health, microbiome dysfunction, bloating, reflux, constipation, and digestive disorders
Hormone and thyroid concerns, metabolic dysfunction, blood sugar regulation, and mitochondrial health
Integrative oncology support and treatment-related symptom management
Sports injuries, orthopedic pain, movement dysfunction, and performance optimization
Migraines, neuropathic pain, dysautonomia, and nervous system dysregulation
Stress-related symptoms, sleep disruption, and adrenal or stress-physiology concerns
Her Integrative Philosophy
Dr. Martina’s approach combines Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, functional medicine, and advanced laboratory testing to evaluate the patterns contributing to chronic symptoms, pain, injury, recovery challenges, and reduced resilience.
Care considers the full clinical picture, including symptoms, health history, lifestyle, stress physiology, environmental exposures, movement, laboratory findings, treatment tolerance, and goals.
Her work integrates:
Traditional Chinese Medicine pattern diagnosis
Functional laboratory testing and systems-based evaluation
Acupuncture and nervous system regulation
Nutrition, lifestyle, herbal medicine, and targeted nutraceutical support
Movement-based rehabilitation and sports medicine strategies when relevant
Treatment is individualized and sequenced to address the most relevant priorities first, support physiologic stability, and build sustainable progress over time.