We were lucky to catch up with Hal Blatman MD recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hal, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Was there a moment in your career that meaningfully altered your trajectory? If so, we’d love to hear the backstory.

The defining moment : ​A woman came to urgent care on a Sunday morning with severe pelvic pain. Her superficial exam indicated pelvic inflammatory disease requiring a protocol of pelvic exam, IV antibiotics, and an ambulance ride to the hospital…but the exam did not fit her story. So instead, I offered first to stretch out her belly muscles, and she agreed. I retrieved Janet Travell MD’s monograph from my briefcase and moved her body, following the diagrams for relieving pelvic pain. If a few minutes, her pain and tenderness were gone, and I was adjusting my overalls. As I read the rest of the monograph, I realized that what a dentist friend had taught me years ago about head, neck, and TMJ pain applied to every muscle everywhere in the body. This totally changed how I thought about injury and pain.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I started medical training with a residency in orthopedic surgery. After two years, I left and started working in urgent care medicine. I became the medical director of 6 centers, and then went back to school for training and board certification in occupational and environmental medicine, clinical toxicology, and ergonomics. During this time, I learned about myofascial pain, and following a monograph by Janet Travell, MD, I taught myself how to treat it working with occupational medicine patients. At the end of this residency, I opened a medical practice to treat myofascial pain. From there, I learned about alternatives to conventional medicine that worked much better and helped people more than what I had been taught. Since then, my curiosity and desire to learn have taken me to learn about nutrition, healing, PRP, stem cell therapies, and so much more. I also became involved with the American Holistic Medical Association and served as president for 2.5 years.

We provide services with three lines of focus.
The first is making pain go away. We do not have to manage what can be made to go away. On the first visit for acute or chronic pain, we aim to

1. find and show you the injuries to your fascia that have occurred throughout your life that cause your pain,
2. help you understand what your body has to do to make it go away, and get you started working on the path with physical techniques that can be performed at home, and
3. hopefully, with the instruction in the office, some of your pain will already be better so you can see this will work for you.

The second line of focus is regenerative medicine. Using platelet-rich plasma and stem cell therapies, peptides, nutrition, and more, we can biohack your biology to heal more completely and more quickly than it can possibly do on its own. You can regenerate your heart from heart failure, regenerate your brain from dementia, improve autism, restore nerves and blood vessels in sexual organs, so they work better, the cartilage in worn-out joints, and more.

The third line of focus is complex medical issues. Once I understood how a biology loses resilience and falls apart and what needs to happen for it to heal, many chronic issues came more clearly into focus. These include chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, Lyme disease, mold illness, cancer, and more.

Services we provide include a different kind of physical examination directed toward understanding injuries to fascia, trigger point injections, prolotherapy, prolozone, IV vitamins, ultraviolet treatment of blood, nutrition, PRP and stem cell treatments, and more.

I am most proud of an amazing staff and group of people I work with in Cincinnati, OH, and New York City and the ways we have learned that can help people who are sick and tired of being sick and tired.

If you could go back in time, do you think you would have chosen a different profession or specialty?

If you could go back would I choose the same specialty
I do not think I chose this specialty, but more that it chose me. I am in my fourth career since medical school, and each has provided a learning experience that was vitally important for me to have the background needed for my current success in helping people with such difficult issues. Amazing, as I think back, there were no wasted steps, and I wouldn’t have wanted to miss any part of my path.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

Can I share my story from my journey that issuatrates my resilience
I was working for an urgent care office that got into rapid expansion and financial difficulties resulting in a demotion from management and a cut in pay. I realized I needed to go back to school, put the house up for sale, and interviewed for residency training in occupation and environmental medicine. I was accepted and offered a small stipend to support my young family of four, two cars, and a mortgage. In order to pull this off, for the next almost two years, I went to school full-time and worked full-time evenings and weekends.

Contact Info:

• Website: Https://blatmanhealthandwellness.com
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