Catherine Ireland, MD (medical doctor), ND (naturopathic doctor), MS, LAc (licensed acupuncturist)

New York, NY

Catherine Ireland, MD, NMD, LAc, has dedicated her career to providing services for those with limited access to healthcare.  She has organized, and been a physician on, medical deployments to Greece, Germany, the United States, and Jordan.  She founded Integrated Relief, an organization that educates people about options for treating pain and incorporating it into primary care.  She owns To Your Points in New York, NY, and provides integrative medicine for pain management.  She is trained as a Level 1 Breath-Body-Mind teacher and incorporates mind-body work into her practice.

Her unique training includes acupuncture (Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture), as well as anesthesiology (University of Connecticut Health Center), surgery (Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center), naturopathy (Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine), molecular biology (University of California, Berkeley) and yoga (Southwest Institute of Healing Arts). She is presently a licensed naturopathic doctor in California and a licensed acupuncturist in New York.

I have been using it since first introduced to it at the 2018 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.  I use it in conjunction with acupuncture both while needles are in and as an alternative to using needles to treat pain.  It also provides people with a tool that can be used and developed via telemedicine.  I have found that it works well for people who cannot use pain medication because of polypharmacy contraindications, past addictions, and personal preferences.  The Level 1 teacher training helped to refine the method I was using.  I feel that I was making it too complicated.  Simplification should increase compliance.

To Your Points
917-300-8927
toyourpoints@cirelandmd.com 
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