More than cartilage wearing thin
Joint stiffness that’s worst in the morning or after sitting, visible swelling, an audible grind on stairs, and pain that increasingly limits kneeling, walking, or standing for any length of time.
Osteoarthritis
“Bone on bone” isn’t the whole story. Neither is “just take some Tylenol.”
The stiffness that makes the first ten minutes of every morning a negotiation. The grinding you can feel, sometimes hear, in a joint that used to be quiet. The stairs you now take one at a time, holding the rail. You’ve been told to wait until it’s “bad enough” for a replacement. There is a different way to approach osteoarthritis: treat the active inflammation in the years before that decision.
- Practicing in Fort Lauderdale since 1994
- Referrals from orthopedists & rheumatologists welcomed
Why an X-ray doesn’t tell you what to do about today
Watching your world get smaller
Giving up golf, gardening, the daily walk with the dog. The quiet math of “is this worth the pain tomorrow.” Feeling older than you are, while everyone tells you to just wait for a joint replacement.
The years between the prescription and the operating room
Many patients are told to manage with ibuprofen until the joint is “bad enough” for surgery, sometimes years away. The inflammation and poor circulation driving your daily pain in the meantime often go untreated entirely.
The gap in standard osteoarthritis care
The standard playbook is NSAIDs, an occasional cortisone injection, and “let’s revisit this when it’s worse.” What’s missing is direct, non-surgical treatment of the active joint inflammation and circulation for however many years that in-between period lasts.
Treating the inflammation, not just watching the joint
Half the osteoarthritis patients in this clinic have imaging that shows significant wear and a doctor who told them surgery is the only real answer eventually. Your protocol treats what’s treatable now, the active inflammation and circulation problems driving daily pain, whether or not surgery is in your future.
The clinical logic: The acupuncture addresses the pain signaling that intensifies with chronic joint irritation. ATP Resonance BioTherapy® supports repair in strained joint structures and the surrounding muscle that stabilizes them. O3 ReBoot Therapy® reduces inflammation in and around the joint and improves circulation to cartilage-adjacent tissue.
How we work with your doctor
Nothing changes with your medications except through your prescriber. Physicians across Broward County send us the joint cases that outlasted the standard playbook, and many patients simply send themselves.
Susan Mitchell, AP
Clinical Director · 30+ years
You’re Not a Case Number
Your protocol, personalized
There’s no fixed number of visits and no generic timeline. Your treatment frequency, therapy mix, and program length are set at your evaluation and adjusted at every visit based on how you’re actually responding.
What shapes your plan
Severity & duration
How long you’ve had it and how far it’s progressed sets your starting intensity.
Your response
Visit frequency steps up or down based on your measured progress at each visit, not a preset week count.
Your goal
Symptom relief, or a return to the things you miss: we define the finish line with you, not for you.
Candidacy comes first: the evaluation determines whether the program fits your case; cost is discussed in person after that.
The Plan
Three steps, starting with the consultation
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$45 initial consultation
Bring your imaging if you have it. We evaluate your case, including whether you’re not a candidate.
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Personalized protocol
A staged plan built around which joints are affected, how active the inflammation is, and your surgical timeline, if any. Progress is measured against your day-one baseline, not guessed, and the plan adjusts as you respond.
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Reclaim your life
Stairs without the wince. A round of golf. The walk with the dog you gave up years ago.
What Today Could Feel Like
Do the thing you’ve been putting off
Kneeling in the garden, and getting back up.
A walk you don’t shorten in your head first.
Stairs that are just stairs.
Untreated joint inflammation compounds
An altered gait from favoring a painful joint puts new stress on the hips, knees, and back that weren’t built to compensate. Reduced activity from avoiding pain weakens the muscles that support the joint, often accelerating the very progression you’re trying to avoid.
Questions, Answered
Osteoarthritis FAQs
Not necessarily. For many patients it can extend the time before surgery is needed and support day-to-day function in the meantime; for others closer to needing surgery, it can still help manage pain leading up to it. We’ll tell you which applies to you at the consultation.
Often, yes. Much of the day-to-day pain in advanced osteoarthritis comes from active inflammation and circulation issues around the joint, which can still respond to treatment even when cartilage loss itself can’t be reversed.
A cortisone injection is a single, temporary anti-inflammatory dose. Our protocol is a staged program combining ozone therapy, microcurrent, and acupuncture aimed at sustained inflammation reduction and tissue support over weeks, not days.
Most commonly knees, hips, shoulders, and hands, though the approach applies to any joint with osteoarthritic changes. We’ll evaluate your specific joints at the consultation.
Patients who respond typically notice their first changes during the initial intensive phase. Durable improvement in function builds over the rehabilitation phase that follows.
Osteoarthritis develops as the cartilage that cushions a joint gradually wears down, and factors like age, prior injury, joint overuse, and genetics can all play into it. By the time it’s painful, there’s often active inflammation in and around the joint on top of the wear itself. We don’t work on the cartilage or the underlying degeneration. What care can address is that active inflammation and the surrounding muscle and nerve irritation feeding the pain.
Book Your Consultation
Your body has been sending the message for a while. Answer it.
Your initial consultation is $45. Tell us your story, and we’ll evaluate your case.
Visit us
3471 North Federal Highway, Suite 500
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306
Physicians
Physicians across Broward County refer patients here; a phone call is all it takes.
New Patient Offer
$45 Initial Consultation
Book your first visit
We’ll confirm by call or text, usually the same day.
No referral required · We coordinate with your physician.