Alliance Institute For Integrative Medicine

Top notch; cutting edge! I’ve been a patient for over a year and have healed from multiple medical issues. Acupuncture, chiropractic, nutrition counseling, reiki… A+!!!

Love going to this practice. They took the time to properly diagnose me and help me with my digestive/​intestinal problems. They actually listen to what the patients are saying and give them time to talk about any new issues.

Liz Woolford refused to perform treatments which are well known to help my syndrome, declared I did not have a tendon problem while holding documentation from my physical therapist stating I have at least 7 sites of tendonitis, insinuated that my problem was psychosomatic while holding documentation from multiple other physicians who all agreed on the actual diagnosis of my very real physical illness, lied that there were no Aqua Therapy centers in the entire state of Ohio despite her office being on the same block as one of them, never physically examined me, mocked me for educating myself about my illness, dismissed any treatments she was unfamiliar with, declared that treatments only fail when patients refuse to heal, insinuated that all people with illnesses are nothing more than professional victims, repeatedly referenced a book written by her bosses which she seemed to regard as a kind of bible and her bosses as some kind of gurus, lapsed into Landmark Forum cult lingo whilst accusing me of sticking to a false narrative/​racket, implied that if I did not share her spiritual beliefs that I would not recover from my syndrome which is believed by scientists to be caused by a gene defect of the MTHFR pathways, tried to sell me pseudo-​psychology CDs and was just generally insulting, uninformed, dismissive, arrogant and completely out of touch with reality.
Also, her acupuncture was mediocre, at best, only relieving the pain in my ankles for about two hours and greatly increasing the pain in my shoulders and jaw and her assistant forgot to remove all the pins from my right arm. She also made the weird claim that attaching what is essentially an electrostimulation machine to the acupuncture needles was making them vibrate on some emotional/​spiritual plane rather than the scientific fact that certain vibrational frequencies (including cats’ purring, fyi) promote healing. Frankly, after my experience, I find it difficult to believe Liz Woolford even has a medical degree; the clerks at Cincinnati Natural Foods are better informed about science, tendons, joints, nerve pain and the methylation process than Woolford and much more pleasant to talk with.
Those who are still considering seeing a different physician at The Alliance Institute for Integrative Medicine should know that there is a very strange, culty vibe to this office; they reverentially give you a copy of the book the owners co-​wrote when you check in and it made me feel as though I’d accidentally joined Scientology. I would not recommend that anyone, and especially not anyone with a serious health problem, waste their time or money at this place; given that they withold IV Glutathione for peripheral neuropathy and Prolotherapy for tendinopathy, it’s worrying to think of what other treatments they advertise as offering but actually refuse to perform for more urgent and possibly fatal illnesses. My aunt died painfully and much sooner than she otherwise would have because of the same kind magical thinking that is promoted here; she believed she could cure her cancer with coffee enemas and that the same said cancer was caused by «toxic» people in her life she had to rid herself of rather than cellular mutations which needed to be halted and excised. Personally, I have no interest in discussing inane metaphysical theories, Astrology, Big Foot nor The Easter Bunny with physicians; I go to doctors so they can use all that science they were supposed to have learned in all those years of schooling and training to cure or, at least, treat whatever medical issue is ailing me.
In the few days since my awful experience with Woolford, I’ve begun Aqua Therapy with a great physical therapist who physically examined me, studied my medical records and read up on my illness at one of the many physical therapy offices in the state of Ohio which offer Aqua Therapy, offices which Liz Woolford claims do not exist.