Dr. Katahdin specializes in the natural and preventive aspects of Sports medicine. Her belief is that optimal health leads to optimal performance in any sporting activity.

Sports Nutrition
While basic healthy eating habits can go a long way towards improving athletic performance, there are some specific tools athletes need to function at full physical capacity day in and day out. Athletes often have questions about weight gain or loss, adequate protein, “carbo loading”, hydration and electrolyte status. Dr. Katahdin will sit down with you to examine your diet, exercise and daily routines in order to maximize both overall health and athletic performance, whatever your goals.

Sports Acupuncture
Dr. Katahdin had her first experience with Chinese Medicine while doing her medical internship rotations in Portland, OR. Training for her first triathlon, she experienced shin splints, knee pain and exercise-related muscle fatigue. As an acupuncture patient, she was very impressed with the speed and efficacy of treatment and wanted to have those tools for use with her own patients. She began working on her Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine concurrently with her Naturopathic medical degree.

Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine are phenomenal for the treatment of athletes because there are so few substances/therapies that are able to get into muscles and joints to make a therapeutic difference. Acupuncture is known for its ability to treat pain, which is very useful, but it is also one of the only modalities that can break up areas of muscle, tendon and joint stagnation before pathology has set in to restore balance without side effects.

After an initial assessment, most athletes come into the office for tune-ups during the two weeks before a major competition and once or twice afterwards. Occasional acupuncture treatments are recommended whenever symptoms arise during training before they have a chance to progress to serious problems.