News and Blog
The Spring Center of Hope blog was created to allow us to post stories about SCOH and more specifically about the stories and successes people have had using ketamine infusion therapy for relief. We hope you will find our blog interesting and appreciate your sharing with your friends and family.
A New Hope: How Ketamine Therapy Offers Hope to PTSD Patients
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) affects millions of individuals worldwide, leaving a profound impact on their mental and emotional well-being. Traditional treatments for PTSD often involve a combination of therapy and medication, but many patients continue to...
Beat the Heat This Summer and Rehydrate
Summer is upon us, and as the temperature soars, it's crucial to prioritize hydration to keep our bodies functioning optimally. Dehydration can lead to a host of health issues and hinder our ability to enjoy summer activities to the fullest. Thankfully, at Spring...
What is Micro Nutrient Testing and How Can It Help Me?
Vitamin and mineral deficiencies can affect our bodies in mysterious ways. Often, even those of us who eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, and healthy dairy and meats can experience deficiencies that make our bodies feel out of whack. And, sometimes, a host of...
Pride Month and Supporting LGBQT+ Through Mental Health
Pride month is a time for people in the LGBQT+ community to celebrate who they are with the support of those around them. However, being open about one’s gender or sexuality can be difficult for some people, especially those in the trans community who have the highest...
Common Uses for Ketamine Infusions
Chances are you’ve heard about ketamine infusions. You may have read that they are being increasingly used in the treatment of mental health. Or you may have heard that they can help people dealing with chronic pain. Both of these things are true, but there’s a lot...
Trying to Heal Naturally While Coping With Depression
If you suffer from depression, you know the feeling: you’re always tired, you lack motivation, and you no longer have the same interest in things that used to bring you pleasure. Coping with depression can be difficult, and many people seek out medication to help...
5 Easy to Adopt Habits to Boost Your Mental Health
As the world continues to pack on stress and responsibilities, mental health struggles have become more common than ever. From anxiety and depression to eating disorders and family conflicts, the challenges can quickly escalate into serious mental health issues if not...
Treatment for Chronic Pain and Psychiatric Disorders: The Hazards of Opioid Use
In the United States, chronic pain is a prevalent health issue that affects a significant proportion of the population, and is a common reason for seeking medical attention. It is estimated that around 20% of people in the country suffer from chronic pain, and opioids...
Don’t Sacrifice Your Mental Health and Diet
Exercise, spending time outside in nature, and catching up with friends are all good—and well-known—ways to support your mental health. But, what you eat has a bigger impact than you may think. Health and diet are tightly entwined, and the more fruits, vegetables, and...
Ketamine Therapy vs. Traditional PTSD Treatments: Which is Right for You?
Traditionally, sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) have turned to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychiatric drugs to treat their symptoms. But new studies show that ketamine infusion therapy also offers those experiencing PTSD a path toward...
Important Considerations When Choosing a Therapist
Therapy is an incredibly valuable part of treating mental health issues like anxiety and depression or addressing stressful situations like family, career, or relationship issues. Because of this, choosing a therapist who is right for you and your needs is an...
The Fight for Positive Mental Health
Maintaining positive mental health while dealing with depression may seem like an impossible task. However, when you’re feeling your lowest, tapping into some helpful habits and tools can make the path back to a more resilient mental state happen with ease and make...
What Does Your Body Need – Importance of Micronutrient Testing
Micronutrients are essential for the proper functioning of our bodies. They include vitamins and minerals, and they play a crucial role in many important functions such as metabolism, tissue repair, and immune system support. However, many people don't consume enough...
NAD+: What is it and is it Right for You?
Chronic pain and progressive diseases can take a heavy toll on your physical health and learning to live with severe pain in your daily life isn’t a path anyone wants to take. Because of the complex ways pain announces itself in our bodies, it can be a tricky symptom...
Managing Chronic Pain with Ketamine Infusion Therapy
Chronic pain can upend everyday life for sufferers. Those in its clutches might experience disruptions to sleep, depression, or other emotional and mental symptoms, which makes managing it all the more important. Ketamine, used as an anesthetic and pain reliever since...
When It All Becomes Too Much – And How to Help
When life becomes too much, it's common to feel helpless and alone. This can often lead to a downward spiral of negative thoughts and emotions that can be difficult to manage. For some people, these feelings can become so intense that they begin to contemplate...
Tips for Coping with Loneliness
The truth of loneliness is that it can affect anyone, no matter what age, at any point in life. Feelings of loneliness can be attributed to numerous different factors, and can affect both your emotional and physical health long-term. The sheer number of adults in the...
The Link Between Depression and Dementia
Depression and dementia are two separate conditions that can occur independently, but there is some evidence to suggest that they may be related. Depression is a common mental health condition that can affect a person's mood, behavior, and overall well-being. It is...
Insomnia and Our Mental Health
”The best cure for insomnia, is sleep.” (W.C. Fields) If it were only that simple. Sleep has a stigma associated with it, perhaps several stigmas. We reward or envy those who only “need” 4 hours of sleep to function. We celebrate “pulling an all-nighter”...
Ketamine Therapy Essential Service During COVID-19 Pandemic
It goes without saying that COVID-19 is on the minds of nearly every American. The societal and economic disruption is almost without precedent. As government officials and clinicians wrestle with issues of how to protect the public, there seem to be more questions than answers. The mental health effects of COVID-19 are as important to address as are the physical health effects. Social isolation, school closures, lack of structure, financial difficulties, and unemployment are among the many stressors related to COVID-19 that have significant impacts on mental well-being.
Understanding Alcohol Addiction and How Ketamine Can Help Prevent Relapse
Alcohol addiction is deadly, we know this. It does not just punish the addict, it punishes their family and society. For those who find sobriety alone or with help from a detox program, staying sober is a lifelong challenge. Relapse occurs when one resumes drinking...
Spravato Esketamine: What we know so far….
The FDA approved a new esketamine nasal spray medication for treatment-resistant depression called Spravato, trade name for Esketamine on March 5, 2019. We’ve had many inquiries about the medication at our practice and I thought it would be beneficial to all of you to...
Ketamine and Psychotherapy: Working Together
Ketamine infusion psychotherapy is not just a passing fad in the treatment of depression, suicidal thoughts, PTSD and other mental health issues. Each week continues to bring more studies to support the breakthrough use of this time-honored drug. Ketamine has been in...
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: How Ketamine Can Help
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a severe mood disorder, is characterized by mental health and physical symptoms in the week before the onset of menstruation and affects millions of women worldwide[i]. It is a much more intense form of PMS. Ketamine infusion...
How to Make Your Ketamine Treatment Therapy More Effective
After trying and failing multiple medications for depression, PTSD or suicidal thoughts, ketamine treatment therapy promises to be a beacon for help. It is an entirely different medicinal approach for rewiring the brain and relieving debilitating symptoms. Ketamine...
Which Medications May Affect Ketamine Therapy?
There is one thing almost all ketamine therapy patients have in common: they are taking daily medications to manage their condition. Ketamine therapy is growing in popularity for the treatment of mood disorders, such as depression, anxiety, PTSD and suicidal...
Anxiety Treatments With Ketamine
About Anxiety Anxiety and anxiety treatments are a hot topic among social media. This is not surprising considering anxiety disorders affect 40 million adults in the United States each year. Sadly, less than 40% receive anxiety treatment, according to the ADAA...
Mental Health and Teens: Why Ketamine May Be an Option
kMental Health and Teens: Why Ketamine Treatments May Be an Option The Statistics The numbers are staggering. 20% of teens age 13-18 have a mental health condition. 50% of cases of mental illness begin by age 14. 90% of those dead by suicide had an underlying mental...
The Stigma of Mental Illness
What does mental illness look like? Is it the man standing on the street corner talking to himself? Is it the woman huddled on the couch all day, or the prisoner pacing his small cell? Let us refocus. What if it is your extroverted coworker, or your son’s energetic...
Ketamine & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
The term Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) has much deeper meaning than many of us may realize. It is not uncommon to hear it casually used in daily conversation, often as a joke. True OCD patients suffer out of proportion to what the public can see or...
Ketamine for Chronic Pain
Ketamine is well known for decades to relieve acute pain in the emergency room, operating room, on the battlefield and in the burn unit. Now, scientists are explaining how it helps with chronic neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain is essentially pain that arises from a...
A Novel Approach to Suicidal Thoughts
There is an urgent need to treat those suffering from suicidal thoughts and attempts. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention provides up-to-date, startling statistics for the US and individual states. Reported annual completed suicides now hover at over...
PTSD: How Ketamine Therapy Can Help
“More than 70% of adults worldwide experience a traumatic event at some time in their lives, and 31% experience four or more events.” Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs anywhere from 1.3% to 12.2% in a lifetime. This depends on the country and people that...
What Is Ketamine Infusion Therapy?
The burden of depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and suicide are extreme and well documented. The National Institute of Health predicts depression will be the 2nd leading cause of disability in Western nations in the next 20 years. Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of...