Chronic Inflammation Treatment in Irvine, CA

You are not an inflamed person as an identity. Inflammation is a set of signals: swelling, heat, immune traffic, and repair. After a sprain it is supposed to show up and then leave. When joints ache most mornings, gums bleed, or recovery from training takes longer every month, the process may be sticking around.

Drs. Sani Kohen, D.C. and Tara Kohen, D.C. ask where you feel it and what else is true: poor sleep, a gut that bloats, a training week that never rests. Functional Medicine does not treat the word itself. It looks for the drivers you can actually name.

C-reactive protein, often shortened to CRP, is a blood marker many physicians already order. A single CRP does not explain why the process is active, and FRI does not invent a private cutoff. The number is context, read with your exam and your history.

Advanced bloodwork can widen that look when glucose, lipids, iron, or a blood count would change the plan. Bring the labs you have so nothing is redrawn for sport. Abnormal results still belong with the physician who manages disease, not only with a nutrition note.

Short sleep and a training load you cannot repay will keep a repair signal turned up. So can a gum infection you have been postponing, which is a dentist's visit, not a supplement. Food patterns matter, and they are individual. There is no miracle anti-inflammatory stack and no brand protocol.

The gut health page is the place for bloating and stool changes. A gut kit is not the treatment for a sore knee. Nutrition and supplementation follows what you eat and what the labs showed, one change at a time.

A joint can hurt because it is loaded badly, because it is inflamed, or both. Chiropractic Sports Medicine and Neuromuscular Rehabilitation examine the mechanical side. Blaming every ache on inflammation and skipping the exam leaves the actual irritant in place.

Functional medicine at FRI does not replace a primary physician, endocrinologist, gastroenterologist, or mental health clinician. Fever, a hot swollen joint, chest pain, or unexplained weight loss needs medical care. This conversation assumes those emergencies are already being handled.

You can begin with a complimentary 20-minute consultation. The office is out of network, provides a superbill, and accepts HSA and FSA funds. Appointments are Monday–Thursday, 9–6.

Bring existing CRP or other bloodwork and a sketch of sleep and training. Expect a talk about load, food, and gums as much as about labs. You will not be sold a stack of anti-inflammatory products.

Many Irvine employers offer HSA or FSA accounts. Those cards work here. We are still out of network and we still give a superbill rather than billing your plan directly. Lab work is quoted before it is ordered. We will not tell you to stop a medication from your Irvine physician.

Drs. Sani and Tara Kohen lead the clinic. Training details are on the about page. If you want to see the rehab gym before you drive the 5, use the office page.

Irvine's villages do not share a body. Woodbridge and University Park are older loops and pools. Turtle Rock and Quail Hill have more grade. The Spectrum and the Great Park are newer and more spread out. The job, for a lot of patients, is a campus along Jamboree, Barranca, or the Irvine Business Complex: long meetings, a badge, and a walk that is only from the garage. Neck, upper back, and headache complaints often start there. Knee and hip complaints often start on the village trails people use to undo the job.

We do not treat Irvine as a single activity level. A cyclist on the San Diego Creek trail and a software lead who has not exercised since a move from Woodbridge need different exams. Neck pain and headaches are common desk presentations. Hip and SI pain shows up when someone adds mileage fast. Say which village and which campus.

From central and north Irvine, I-5 south toward Mission Viejo is the simple drive. From the south villages and from many business parks, the 133 to the 73 toll road is often cleaner. About 12 miles. Twenty minutes is realistic off peak. Thirty-five is realistic when the 5 is slow through Lake Forest. The office is 26400 La Alameda, Suite 100, Mission Viejo, CA 92691. Building parking. Monday through Thursday, 9 to 6.

Irvine patients are used to efficient clinics. This one is deliberately less efficient. An exam takes time. If you need to be back on Jamboree for a meeting, book a morning visit and leave a buffer. Phone (949) 312-1754. The 20-minute consultation is the right first step if you are shopping for a style of care rather than ready for testing.

Corrective exercise and DNS are how we retrain sitting and breathing patterns after the exam shows they matter. Chiropractic adjustments are used when a joint is not moving, not as a subscription. Carpal tunnel symptoms get a neck screen and a nerve exam, because a keyboard is not automatically the wrist.

The same city asks functional medicine questions: thyroid, burnout-style fatigue people want explained, and gut symptoms after years of desk lunches. Those are history-first visits. The hub page is the Irvine chiropractor page.