Innovative POTS Treatments: Helping
You Regain Balance and Resilience
DR. SURUCHI CHANDRA | POTS Specialist Clinic
BETHESDA, MARYLAND I WASHINGTON DC AREA
Don't Let POTS Hold You Back from Living your Life
Living with POTS can be challenging. The unpredictable symptoms can leave you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and frustrated. We enhance traditional care by offering cutting-edge therapies that go beyond symptom relief. Our focus is on helping you build resilience and achieve balance, addressing issues such as fatigue, dizziness, heart palpitations, and brain fog. Our aim is to empower you to overcome these challenges and fully reclaim your life.
You Deserve a Dysautonomia and POTS Clinic That:
Incorporates Advanced Testing
to Customize Treatments
Builds Long-term Resilience, Not Just Symptoms Relief
Helps to Regulate and Balance Your Nervous System
Supports Mental Health and Emotional Well-being
Considers Root Causes Beneath Symptoms
Our POTS Treatment Offerings:
Tailored to Your Needs
POTS is a complex condition with varied causes and symptoms, making it clear that no single treatment approach works for everyone. That’s why we offer a range of personalized options, allowing you to choose the path best suited to your unique needs.
Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Calming the Nervous System in POTS
Neurofeedback for POTS: A New Path to Balance
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is another non-invasive therapy that helps balance the autonomic nervous system. It works by increasing calming parasympathetic activity while reducing the overactive sympathetic system. A recent study found that VNS lowered heart rate and reduced adrenaline surges and inflammation, two key drivers of POTS symptoms (OUHSC).
Neurofeedback is an innovative, non-invasive therapy that trains your brain to better regulate your body’s autonomic functions, like heart rate, blood pressure, and circulation. By targeting the brain’s electrical activity, neurofeedback aims to help your nervous system regain control and reduce the dizziness, fatigue, and heart palpitations that often come with POTS.
FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE: Getting to the Root cause of pots
Our neurotherapy and functional medicine approaches are designed to complement standard POTS treatments. These therapies work best alongside conventional methods to support a more balanced, resilient recovery.
For many with POTS, issues like inflammation, nutritional imbalances, and poor gut health contribute to ongoing symptoms. Our functional medicine approach uses advanced testing to identify these underlying issues and address them with personalized, holistic treatments. This helps build a stronger foundation for long-term wellness and relief.
“Over the four years I’ve worked with Dr. Chandra, she has taken me from my lowest low, to a point of being totally functional. I can now care for my family, exercise regularly, and thrive in my daily life. Dr. Chandra has brought me to a point of whole wellness."”
PATIENT STORIES
All of our treatment protocols are created and supervised by Dr. Suruchi Chandra, a Harvard and Yale-trained psychiatrist who is board-certified in neurofeedback. Dr. Chandra is deeply committed to understanding and treating complex chronic conditions like POTS and dysautonomia and has collaborated with POTS specialists. She embraces a whole-body approach that nurtures both mind and body, recognizing the profound connection between them.
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POTS and Dysautonomia Therapies Thoughtfully Designed for You
POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) and dysautonomia refer to disorders of the autonomic nervous system, which controls involuntary body functions. POTS is specifically characterized by symptoms such as an excessive increase in heart rate upon standing, lightheadedness, fainting, and palpitations. Dysautonomia encompasses various forms of autonomic dysfunction, including POTS.
The exact cause of POTS is unknown, but it can develop after viral infections, major surgery, trauma, or during periods of rapid growth such as adolescence. It is thought to involve a dysfunction in the autonomic nervous system. Chronic inflammation and infections like Lyme disease can also trigger or exacerbate these conditions.
Treatment for POTS and dysautonomia typically starts with conventional approaches such as increased fluid intake, physical therapy, and medications to manage heart rate and blood pressure. Functional medicine can complement these strategies by addressing underlying causes through diet, lifestyle changes, and natural therapies, providing a more holistic approach to symptom management and autonomic function improvement.
Diagnosis involves assessing symptoms, medical history, and conducting a tilt table test to measure the heart rate and blood pressure responses to changes in posture. Because these conditions can be complex, seeing a specialized clinic is important for comprehensive evaluation and management. Institutions like Johns Hopkins and the Children’s Hospital have dedicated programs for diagnosing and treating autonomic disorders.
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Whether you're interested in learning more about Dr. Chandra's integrative approach, exploring our advanced neurotherapy treatments, or both, we're here to help.
