Chronic Disease
Treatment Options for Various Conditions
At SC21 Medical Centre, we provide a range of cutting edge therapies combined into an integrative disease treatment plan. We target a number of key area’s such as chronic inflammation, tissue stimulation, repair mechanisms, and the body microenvironment. When synergistically targeting these area’s, we see real therapeutic outcomes for our patients.
We provide a number of treatment packages in our chronic disease and degenerative disease programs, based on the number of therapies, duration of program, and frequency of follow up.
Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Disease rates from these conditions are accelerating globally, advancing across every region and pervading all socioeconomic classes.
We offer a free service for review of medical history and initial consultation.
What We Provide:
Prices starting from: $19,500 USD+
Duration: 3 to 5 days
Includes:
- Free consultation & treatment planning
- Health check up and base line assessment
- SC21 program: 3 to 5 day
- Daily personalised supportive therapy program
- Take home personalised treatment booster course
- Take home compounded nutrition pack
- Improve the Bodies Microenvironment
- Immune Modulation – Reduce Chronic Inflammation
- Support Cellular Health
- Encourage Repair & Regeneration
- Support Energy Production
- Boost Nutrition Levels
- Reduce Rate of Progression
- Improve Quality of Life & Mobility
Supportive Treatments for Chronic Disease:
Personalised Injection Program IV and Local (target area).
IV + Local Ozone, IV Nutrition, Amino-acids, and Enzymes.
IV and target area Low Level Laser Bio-photon therapy.
Physiotherapy, Shockwave, Ultrasound, EMS, and Inversion.
Most Commonly Treated:
Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. It affects memory, thinking, and behaviour.
Causes
The exact cause of Alzheimer’s disease is not known. Research shows that certain changes in the brain lead to Alzheimer’s disease.
You are more likely to develop Alzheimer disease if you:
- Are older — Developing Alzheimer’s disease is not a part of normal ageing.
- Have a close relative, such as a brother, sister, or parent with Alzheimer’s disease.
- Have certain genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease
Symptoms
Alzheimer disease symptoms include difficulty with many areas of mental function, including:
- Emotional behavior or personality
- Language
- Memory
- Perception
- Thinking and judgment (cognitive skills)
Alzheimer disease usually first appears as forgetfulness.
Early symptoms of Alzheimer disease can include:
- Difficulty performing tasks that take some thought, but used to come easily, such as balancing a checkbook, playing complex games, and learning new information or routines
- Getting lost on familiar routes
- Language problems, such as trouble remembering the names of familiar objects
- Losing interest in things previously enjoyed and being in a flat mood
- Misplacing items
- Personality changes and loss of social skills
People with severe Alzheimer disease can no longer:
- Recognise family members
- Perform basic activities of daily living, such as eating, dressing, and bathing
- Understand language
Other symptoms that may occur with Alzheimer disease:
- Problems controlling bowel movements or urine
- Swallowing problems
Arthritis is inflammation or degeneration of one or more joints. A joint is the area where 2 bones meet. There are more than 100 different types of arthritis.
Causes
Arthritis involves the breakdown of structures of the joint, particularly cartilage. Normal cartilage protects a joint and allows it to move smoothly. Cartilage also absorbs shock when pressure is placed on the joint, such as when you walk. Without the normal amount of cartilage, the bones under the cartilage become damaged and rub together. This causes swelling (inflammation), and stiffness.
Other joint structures affected by arthritis include:
- The synovium
- The bone next to the joint
- Ligaments and tendons
- The linings of the ligaments and tendons (bursae)
Joint inflammation and damage may result from:
- An autoimmune disease (the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue)
- Broken bone
- General “wear and tear” on joints
- Infection, most often by bacteria or virus
- Crystals such as uric acid or calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate
In most cases, the joint inflammation goes away after the cause goes away or is treated. Sometimes, it does not. When this happens, you have long-term (chronic) arthritis.
Arthritis may occur in people of any age and sex. Osteoarthritis, which is due to non-inflammatory processes and increases with age, is the most common type.
Other, more common types of inflammatory arthritis include:
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Crystal arthritis, gout, calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (in children)
- Bacterial infections
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Reactive arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis (in adults)
- Scleroderma
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
Symptoms
Arthritis causes joint pain, swelling, stiffness, and limited movement.
Symptoms can include:
- Joint pain
- Joint swelling
- Reduced ability to move the joint
- Redness and warmth of the skin around a joint
- Joint stiffness, especially in the morning
Asthma is a chronic disease that causes the airways of the lungs to swell and narrow. It leads to breathing difficulty such as wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing.
Causes
Asthma is caused by swelling (inflammation) in the airways. When an asthma attack occurs, the lining of the air passages swells and the muscles surrounding the airways become tight. This reduces the amount of air that can pass through the airway.
Asthma symptoms can be caused by breathing in substances called allergens or triggers, or by other causes.
Common asthma triggers include:
- Animals (pet hair or dander)
- Dust mites
- Certain medicines (aspirin and other NSAIDS)
- Changes in weather (most often cold weather)
- Chemicals in the air or in food
- Physical activity
- Mold
- Pollen
- Respiratory infections, such as the common cold
- Strong emotions (stress)
- Tobacco smoke
Substances in some workplaces can also trigger asthma symptoms, leading to occupational asthma. The most common triggers are wood dust, grain dust, animal dander, fungi, or chemicals.
Many people with asthma have a personal or family history of allergies, such as hay fever (allergic rhinitis) or eczema. Others have no history of allergies.
Symptoms
Asthma symptoms vary from person to person. For example, you may have symptoms all the time or mostly during physical activity.
Most people with asthma have attacks separated by symptom-free periods. Some people have long-term shortness of breath with episodes of increased shortness of breath. Wheezing or a cough may be the main symptom.
Asthma attacks can last for minutes to days. An asthma attack may start suddenly or develop slowly over several hours or days. It may become dangerous if airflow is severely blocked.
Symptoms of asthma include:
- Cough with or without sputum (phlegm) production
- Pulling in of the skin between the ribs when breathing (intercostal retractions)
- Shortness of breath that gets worse with exercise or activity
- Whistling sound or wheezing as you breathe
- Pain or tightness in the chest
- Difficulty sleeping
- Abnormal breathing pattern (breathing out takes more than twice as long as breathing in)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common lung disease. Having COPD makes it hard to breathe.
There are two main forms of COPD:
- Chronic bronchitis, which involves a long-term cough with mucus
- Emphysema, which involves damage to the lungs over time
Most people with COPD have a combination of both conditions.
Causes
Smoking is the main cause of COPD. The more a person smokes, the more likely that person will develop COPD. But some people smoke for years and never get COPD.
In rare cases, nonsmokers who lack a protein called alpha-1 antitrypsin can develop emphysema.
Other risk factors for COPD are:
- Exposure to certain gases or fumes in the workplace
- Exposure to heavy amounts of secondhand smoke and pollution
- Frequent use of a cooking fire without proper ventilation
Symptoms
Symptoms may include any of the following:
- Cough, with or without mucus
- Fatigue
- Many respiratory infections
- Shortness of breath (dyspnea) that gets worse with mild activity
- Trouble catching one’s breath
- Wheezing
Because the symptoms develop slowly, some people may not know that they have COPD.
Diabetes is a long-term (chronic) disease in which the body cannot regulate the amount of sugar in the blood.
Causes
To understand diabetes, it is important to first understand the normal process by which food is broken down and used by the body for energy. Several things happen when food is digested and absorbed:
- A sugar called glucose enters the bloodstream. Glucose is a source of fuel for the body.
- An organ called the pancreas makes substances to move sugars. The role of these substances is to move glucose from the bloodstream into muscle, fat, and other cells, where it can be stored or used as fuel.
People with diabetes have high blood sugar because their body cannot move sugar from the blood into muscle and fat cells to be burned or stored for energy, and/or because their liver makes too much glucose and releases it into the blood. This is because either:
- Their pancreas does not make enough substances
- Their cells do not respond to them normally
- Both of the above
There are two major types of diabetes. The causes and risk factors are different for each type:
- Type 1 diabetes is less common. It can occur at any age, but it is most often diagnosed in children, teens, or young adults. In this disease, the body makes little or no sugar transporting substances. This is because the pancreas cells that make these stop working. Daily injections of supplementary substances are needed. The exact cause of the failure to make enough substances is unknown.
- Type 2 diabetes is more common. It most often occurs in adulthood, but because of high obesity rates, children and teens are now being diagnosed with this disease. Some people with type 2 diabetes do not know they have it. With type 2 diabetes, the body is resistant to sugar transport substances and doesn’t use them as well as it should. Not all people with type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese.
If your parent, brother, or sister has diabetes, you may be more likely to develop the disease.
Symptoms
A high blood sugar level can cause several symptoms, including:
- Blurry vision
- Excess thirst
- Fatigue
- Frequent urination
- Hunger
- Weight loss
Because type 2 diabetes develops slowly, some people with high blood sugar have no symptoms.
Symptoms of type 1 diabetes develop over a short period. People may be very sick by the time they are diagnosed.
After many years, diabetes can lead to other serious problems. These problems are known as diabetes complications, and include:
- Eye problems, including trouble seeing (especially at night), light sensitivity, and blindness
- Sores and infections of the leg or foot, which if untreated, can lead to amputation of the leg or foot
- Damage to nerves in the body, causing pain, tingling, a loss of feeling, problems digesting food, and erectile dysfunction
- Kidney problems, which can lead to kidney failure
- Weakened immune system, which can lead to more frequent infections
- Increased chance of having a heart attack or stroke
Cirrhosis is scarring of the liver and poor liver function. It is the last stage of chronic liver disease.
Causes
Cirrhosis is most often the end result of chronic liver damage caused by long-term (chronic) liver disease. Common causes of chronic liver disease are:
- Hepatitis B or hepatitis C infection.
- Alcohol abuse.
- Buildup of fat in the liver that is NOT caused by drinking too much alcohol (called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease [NAFLD] and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis [NASH]). It is closely related to being overweight, having high blood pressure, diabetes or pre-diabetes, and high cholesterol.
Less common causes of cirrhosis include:
- When immune cells mistake the liver’s normal cells for harmful invaders and attack them
- Bile duct disorders
- Some medicines
- Liver diseases passed down in families
Symptoms
There may be no symptoms, or symptoms may come on slowly, depending on how well the liver is working. Often, it is discovered by chance when an x-ray is done for another reason.
Early symptoms include:
- Fatigue and loss of energy
- Poor appetite and weight loss
- Nausea or belly pain
- Small, red spider-like blood vessels on the skin
As liver function worsens, symptoms may include:
- Fluid buildup in the legs (edema) and in the abdomen (ascites)
- Yellow color in the skin, mucous membranes, or eyes (jaundice)
- Redness on the palms of the hands
- In men, impotence, shrinking of the testicles, and breast swelling
- Easy bruising and abnormal bleeding, most often from swollen veins in the digestive tract
- Confusion or problems thinking
- Pale or clay-colored stools
- Bleeding from upper or lower intestinal tract
Heart failure is a condition in which the heart is no longer able to pump oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body efficiently. This causes symptoms to occur throughout the body.
Causes
Heart failure is most often a long-term (chronic) condition, but it may come on suddenly. It can be caused by many different heart problems.
The condition may affect only the right side or only the left side of the heart. More often, both sides of the heart are involved.
Heart failure is present when:
- Your heart muscle cannot pump (eject) the blood out of the heart very well. This is called systolic heart failure, or heart failure with a reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).
- Your heart muscle is stiff and does not fill up with blood easily. This is called diastolic heart failure, or heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
As the heart’s pumping becomes less effective, blood may back up in other areas of the body. Fluid may build up in the lungs, liver, gastrointestinal tract, and the arms and legs. This is called congestive heart failure.
The most common causes of heart failure are:
- Coronary artery disease (CAD), a narrowing or blockage of the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart. This can weaken the heart muscle over time or suddenly.
- High blood pressure that is not well controlled, leading to problems with stiffness, or eventually leading to muscle weakening.
Other heart problems that may cause heart failure are:
- Congenital heart disease
- Heart attack (when coronary artery disease results in a sudden blockage of a heart artery)
- Heart valves that are leaky or narrowed
- Infection that weakens the heart muscle
- Some types of abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias)
Other diseases that can cause or contribute to heart failure:
- Amyloidosis
- Emphysema
- Overactive thyroid
- Sarcoidosis
- Severe anemia
- Too much iron in the body
- Under-active thyroid
Symptoms
Symptoms of heart failure often begin slowly. At first, they may only occur when you are very active. Over time, you may notice breathing problems and other symptoms even when you are resting. Symptoms may also appear suddenly after the heart is damaged from a heart attack or other problem.
Common symptoms are:
- Cough
- Fatigue, weakness, faintness
- Loss of appetite
- Need to urinate at night
- Pulse that feels fast or irregular, or a sensation of feeling the heartbeat (palpitations)
- Shortness of breath when you are active or after you lie down
- Swollen (enlarged) liver or abdomen
- Swollen feet and ankles
- Waking up from sleep after a couple of hours due to shortness of breath
- Weight gain
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that affects the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system).
Causes
MS affects women more than men. The disorder is most commonly diagnosed between ages 20 to 40, but it can be seen at any age.
MS is caused by damage to the myelin sheath. This sheath is the protective covering that surrounds nerve cells. When this nerve covering is damaged, nerve signals slow or stop.
The nerve damage is caused by inflammation. Inflammation occurs when the body’s own immune cells attack the nervous system. This can occur along any area of the brain, optic nerve, and spinal cord.
It is unknown what exactly causes MS. The most common thought is that it is caused by a virus, a gene defect, or both. Environmental factors may also play a role.
You are slightly more likely to develop this condition if you have a family history of MS or you live in a part of the world where MS is more common.
Symptoms
Symptoms vary because the location and severity of each attack can be different. Attacks can last for days, weeks, or months. Attacks are followed by remissions. These are periods of reduced symptoms or no symptoms. Fever, hot baths, sun exposure, and stress can trigger or worsen attacks.
It is common for the disease to return (relapse). The disease may also continue to get worse without remissions.
Nerves in any part of the brain or spinal cord may be damaged. Because of this, MS symptoms can appear in many parts of the body.
Muscle symptoms:
- Loss of balance
- Muscle spasms
- Numbness or abnormal sensation in any area
- Problems moving arms or legs
- Problems walking
- Problems with coordination and making small movements
- Tremor in one or more arms or legs
- Weakness in one or more arms or legs
Bowel and bladder symptoms:
- Constipation and stool leakage
- Difficulty beginning to urinate
- Frequent need to urinate
- Strong urge to urinate
- Urine leakage (incontinence)
Eye symptoms:
- Double vision
- Eye discomfort
- Uncontrollable eye movements
- Vision loss (usually affects one eye at a time)
Numbness, tingling, or pain:
- Facial pain
- Painful muscle spasms
- Tingling, crawling, or burning feeling in the arms and legs
Other brain and nerve symptoms:
- Decreased attention span, poor judgment, and memory loss
- Difficulty reasoning and solving problems
- Depression or feelings of sadness
- Dizziness and balance problems
- Hearing loss
Sexual symptoms:
- Problems with erections
- Problems with vaginal lubrication
Speech and swallowing symptoms:
- Slurred or difficult-to-understand speech
- Trouble chewing and swallowing
Fatigue is a common and bothersome symptom as MS progresses. It is often worse in the late afternoon.
SC21 treatment programs for chronic disease are designed on an integrative approach. We combine a carefully selected group of treatments which act in a synergistic manner to tackle chronic disease at its root cause.