Core Values
We combined our team at Iowa Wellness Center with Family & Sport Chiropractic to provide you with the best possible care at our wellness center near Iowa City. We built our core principles on the following:
- We bring passion to every treatment, driven by our goal of making a difference in our patients’ lives.
- We are a dependable team that consistently provides reliable care every patient can trust.
- We build lasting relationships through continuous support and loyalty to our patients.
- We deliver results through teamwork, working with our patients to create personalized plans and achieve the best outcomes.
Our core values influence how we approach every treatment, whether for chronic conditions, wellness, or aesthetics.
Neuropathy Care
Caring for patients with neuropathy is one of our specialities. In fact, our very own doctor, Mohamed Karim, D.C., is board certified in Chronic Intractable Pain and Neuropathy from the American College of Physical Medicine. He is also board certified in Functional Neurology from the American Functional Neurology Institute. With his expertise, he helps numerous patients find relief from this neurological disorder.
More than 2.4 million people globally suffer from neuropathy, a neurological condition that causes a range of symptoms, including the following:
- Tingling sensations similar to pins and needles, prickling, or numbness.
- Burning pain that may spread to your arms and hands.
- Sharp, stabbing, “electric-like” pains that worsen in the evenings.
- Feelings of dizziness or lightheadedness due to drops in blood pressure.
- Muscle weakness or inability to move.
Neuropathy can affect anyone, regardless of age, sex, or medical history. However, researchers have found links between this neurological disorder and conditions like inflammation, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, nutritional deficiencies, vascular disorders, and much more.
That’s why we take such a comprehensive approach to preventing, diagnosing, and treating neuropathy at our wellness center near Iowa City. Because there is no cure for neuropathy, we offer ongoing care to help manage your symptoms and relieve pain and discomfort. Through chiropractic services, we stimulate, reactivate, and repair damaged nerves in the treatment area. Our wellness center offers minimally invasive treatments that improve circulation, reduce inflammation, and replenish nutrient levels.
Wellness Treatments
Health and wellness look different for everyone, so we personalize every treatment at our wellness center near Iowa City. Here’s a look at some of the wellness treatments we offer, and how they can help you.
Hormone Therapy
Your hormones, like estrogen and testosterone, are responsible for a range of bodily functions and processes, including:
- Sexual reproduction
- Metabolism (the process of breaking down food and converting it to energy)
- Mood
- Sleep/wake cycle
- Blood sugar and blood pressure
- Body temperature
When your hormones are out of balance, you can feel it through symptoms like fatigue, hot flashes, and lack of motivation. Hormone production decreases with age in both men and women alike. For women, this is known as menopause, whereas men experience andropause. We offer hormone replacement therapy to replenish these hormones and get you back to feeling like yourself again.
Medical Weight Loss
When you’re struggling to lose weight, it isn’t always a matter of just willpower alone. Often, you’re working against hormones, genetics, and metabolism that encourage fat storage. At Iowa Wellness Center, we offer weight loss injectables, like GLP-1 medications, which work with these bodily processes to help you lose weight sustainably. Along with medications, we also have a 30, 90, or 18-day program where we provide the following:
- Blueprint nutrition plan
- Gut health kit
- Weight loss kit
We give you the education and support so you can both lose weight and maintain the results.
Oxygen Therapy
Oxygen is vital to human life—you know that. But did you also know that it’s important for blood circulation, helping deliver vitamins and minerals to our cells and organs and promoting wound healing? That’s why we offer oxygen therapy to increase your body’s oxygen levels. This treatment can be administered through a nasal cannula or a face mask, which then enables your cells to perform essential functions more efficiently.
Ozone Therapy
Ozone is a type of gas made of three oxygen atoms. For reference, the oxygen we breathe daily only has two. With an additional atom, ozone therapy helps eliminate viruses, fungi, harmful toxins, and free radicals from your body. This treatment can improve everything from immunity to circulation to skin health. We even use it for chiropractic care as it can help relieve back pain.
IV Therapy
Your body relies on micronutrients like vitamins and minerals to maintain hydration, promote immunity, support your metabolism, and much more. IV stands for “intravenous,” which means that we deliver these fluids and micronutrients directly into your bloodstream, bypassing the digestive system where they lose potency. From hangover recovery to skin rejuvenation to migraine relief and beyond, there’s an IV infusion for everyone at our wellness center near Iowa City.
Shockwave Therapy
Using noninvasive sound waves, shockwave therapy encourages new blood vessel creation and opens existing ones. This can help your body heal damaged tissue, resulting in increased mobility, pain relief, sports injury recovery, and even improvements in erectile dysfunction.
Infrared Sauna
Unlike a normal sauna, which requires you to sit in a hot room to increase heart rate and blood flow, our infrared sauna directly heats your body—not the air around you. This allows the heat to penetrate deeper tissues to stimulate sweat production and detoxification. The infrared sauna can improve immunity, relaxation, recovery, and even sleep.
Sexual Wellness
Men and women alike struggle with low libido, urinary incontinence, and sexual dysfunction or lack of satisfaction. At our wellness center near Iowa City, we provide sexual wellness services for men and women to improve sexual health. These services range from Emfemme 360 to address vaginal dryness and laxity, to the Emsella chair for urinary incontinence treatment and pelvic floor strengthening. For men, we offer Emsella, PRP injections, and hormone replacement therapy to improve Peyronie’s disease and erectile dysfunction.
Aesthetic Services
There may be some truth to the statement that “looks don’t matter,” but when it comes to your health, they certainly do. Hair loss, acne, dry or dull skin, and even premature wrinkles often indicate a range of health concerns like nutritional deficiencies, stress, or hormonal imbalances. We start by looking at the underlying cause of your health concerns to improve your outer appearance and inner health.
With that being said, we also understand that self-esteem affects your mental health, and so you want to feel confident in your appearance. That’s why we offer a range of other aesthetic services at our wellness center near Iowa City. The following are a few of our options.
Botox
Botox, known as a “wrinkle relaxer,” works by relaxing the muscles that cause specific facial movements, reducing dynamic wrinkles (which appear when you make expressions). With this newfound stillness, your skin settles into a more even-level position. Please note that while it may reduce movement, it doesn’t restrict it entirely, meaning you don’t have to worry about looking “frozen.”
PRP Injections
PRP stands for platelet-rich plasma, a concentrate made by taking a sample of your own blood and separating the platelets from the other components. Platelets are rich in proteins and growth factors that help promote healing and stimulate blood circulation. We use this treatment both for wellness and aesthetics, as it can accelerate healing, but it also aids in hair restoration and improves skin health.
Red Light Therapy
Red light therapy uses specific wavelengths of light to stimulate cellular function within your body. The light penetrates deeper into your skin and reaches cells to increase energy without damaging your skin or even causing you discomfort or any major side effects. This treatment reduces inflammation, improves skin health, and can even diminish the appearance of cellulite.
Emtone Cellulite Treatment
Cellulite is the bumpy skin that appears on your buttocks, thighs, hips, and stomach. It’s the result of collections of fat pushing against the connective tissue beneath the skin. While there is no cure for cellulite, our Emtone treatment provides you with smoother skin and long-lasting results. This device emits radiofrequency (RF) energy into the area to stimulate collagen production and tighten skin. At the same time, acoustic waves promote lymphatic drainage and improve local blood circulation, reducing bloating and slimming your silhouette.
Emsculpt NEO
Emsculpt NEO destroys fat cells while simultaneously building muscle in the treated area. This provides more than aesthetic benefits, as it can also improve your athletic performance and even relieve lower back pain. Radiofrequency energy kills fat cells by using heat to break down and eliminate your fat cells. At the same time, high-intensity focused electromagnetic (HIFEM) energy induces intense yet painless muscle contractions to stimulate your muscle fibers. When paired with regular physical activity, you can see noticeable improvements in your silhouette and your strength.
