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Cape Integrative Health Health Care Redefined. Personalized Care, just for you. Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Regenerative Medicine, Urgent Care, and Physical Therapy.

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Chiropractic,
Physical Therapy,
Acupuncture,
Active Release Techniques (A.R.T.),
Cupping Therapy,
Herbal Therapy,
Primary Care,
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10/13/2026

Sore knees after stairs, hiking, or running? Your knee often takes direction from the joints above and below it. Dr. Kyle walks through two simple self-checks to start with 👇

🦵 Check 1: Single Leg Step Down (hip control)
Stand on your sore-side leg and find your balance.
Bring your other leg slightly forward.
Slowly lower that heel toward the floor, then come back up.
Try it a few times. It’s harder than it looks!

👀 What to watch for: Big wobbles, or your hip shifting out to the side. That can point to a hip control issue affecting how force travels down into your knee.

🦶 Check 2: Knee to Wall (ankle mobility)
Throw up “the horns” hand sign 🤘 and place it against a wall as a spacer.
Line your big toe up with your fingers.
Keep your heel flat on the floor and your hands on the wall.
Slowly bring your knee toward the wall, only as far as is comfortable.

👀 What to watch for: If your knee can’t reach the wall, your ankle mobility may be limited. Pay attention to where you feel it:

Pinching in the front of the ankle → likely the joint itself

A big stretch in the back of the leg → a great place to start is working on calf and soleus mobility

Knee reaches the wall easily → your ankle probably isn’t the issue, so keep looking

⚠️ If you have sharp pain, significant swelling, or a knee that limits your day, get it properly assessed. These checks are a starting point, not a diagnosis.

Here for you. Always! 🤜🤛

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10/08/2026

Something we’ve been watching closely in the commercial market: hyaluronic acid (HA) injections for knee osteoarthritis have become much harder to access.

HA is a genuinely useful molecule. Each one holds close to a thousand molecules of water, which is why it can hydrate and lubricate a mild to moderately arthritic joint. For years it was a routine part of how we cared for knee OA, typically given as a series of one to five injections depending on the brand.

Over the last two to three years, though, the cost per injection has climbed from roughly $150–$300 to somewhere between $500 and $1,200. Alongside that, we’re seeing far more commercial insurance denials, even when every step of the payer’s own policy has been followed. Medicare is still the one place we see reasonably consistent coverage.

Here’s what that means in practice: if your insurer is denying HA, or you’ve been offered it as a cash-pay option, the cost of HA and the cost of our regenerative injections are now in a similar range. In speaking just to our own clinical experience, the outcomes are not. PRP, and particularly PRP combined with alpha-2 macroglobulin (A*M), tends to offer a stronger therapeutic effect than HA alone.

So if HA is what you’ve been considering, we’d encourage you to look at PRP + A*M as well. Both options are available here at Cape Integrative Health, and the first step is an evaluation to confirm the pain generator and that you’re a good candidate.

📞 Give us a call or tap the link in our bio to book a consult with Nikki Strout, FNP, who heads our regenerative medicine services, and talk through your options!

Cold and flu season is definitely here! If you wake up with a sore throat or feel like you’ve been hit by a truck, come ...
10/05/2026

Cold and flu season is definitely here! If you wake up with a sore throat or feel like you’ve been hit by a truck, come and see us. Walk-in and urgent care services are part of Cape Integrative Health, right here in our clinic.

Nikki Strout, FNP is happy to see you for anything you would normally go to a walk-in or urgent care clinic for, right here under our roof. We can help you figure out what’s going on, what might help, and what to do next.

You don’t have to wait until you’re completely miserable. Sometimes you just want to get things checked out and have a little peace of mind.

Starting this week, our walk-in hours are:
Monday & Thursday: 8 AM–5 PM
Tuesday & Wednesday: 8 AM–2 PM
Closed Friday

Save this for the next time you need us. 💙

Here’s the why behind this month’s list (save this one 👆)🧥 Keep moving outside as it gets cold, just dress for it. The p...
10/01/2026

Here’s the why behind this month’s list (save this one 👆)

🧥 Keep moving outside as it gets cold, just dress for it. The pull when it’s gray and 45 is to stop going out, but that’s exactly when your body and your mood need it most. There’s no bad weather, only wrong layers. A brisk walk in the cold does more for you than you’d think.

🧂 Keep your electrolytes up as the air dries out. Heat kicks on, the air gets dry, and people stop feeling thirsty in the cold, so hydration slips even though your body still needs it. Water alone doesn’t always cut it, but a pinch of salt or an electrolyte mix helps it actually land. Low electrolytes show up as fatigue, headaches, and muscle cramps before you’d ever blame dehydration.

📵 Put your phone down an hour before bed. Scrolling late keeps your brain switched on when it should be powering down, and the light and the stimulation both push your sleep later and make it lighter. Park the phone across the room and let the last hour be analog: a book, a stretch, actual conversation. Your deep sleep starts before your head hits the pillow.

🍲 Trade cold, raw foods for warm, cooked ones. In Chinese medicine, fall is the season to move off summer’s salads and smoothies toward warm, cooked food like soups, stews, and roasted roots. Your body spends less working to warm and break down cooked food as the weather cools, so more of your energy stays yours.

🛏️ Let your bedroom run cooler. Your body has to drop its core temperature to fall into deep sleep, and a cool room makes that easy. When you’re tempted to crank the heat, keep the bedroom on the cooler side and add a blanket instead. You’ll sleep deeper for it.

🔍 Take honest stock of one habit heading into winter. Fall is a natural checkpoint, before the holidays and the hibernation months pile on. Pick one thing: how you’re sleeping, how you’re moving, what you’re eating, how often you actually see people. Just notice where it’s drifted, no fixing required yet. You can’t adjust what you haven’t looked at honestly.

Which one are you going to try? And what would you add to the list?

09/30/2026

It’s incredibly important to us that our patients are seen and heard, it is always the first step towards solving any issue.

When you come to us and tell us that something is wrong, we believe you and we’re going to do something about it.

Welcome to Nikki Strout, our new Medical Services Director! We are so happy to have her on this team.

When you see one of us, you get all of us.

09/29/2026

Been stretching and still feeling it? It might not be the muscle.

When something feels tight, most of us assume a muscle needs stretching. But a lot of the time, what’s actually irritated is a nerve, and nerves don’t respond to stretching the same way. They’re fine with a little tension, but hold them there and they get cranky, which can mean more pain, not less.

Here’s a quick self-check from Dr. Tyler: when you stretch, where do you feel it? If it’s in the muscle you’re targeting, you’re probably on the right track. If the pull shows up somewhere else, travels, or feels more like tingling or a zing than a stretch, that’s a sign you may be tensioning a nerve instead. If you’re not sure, it’s having a clinician take a look so you’re working on the right thing, especially if it doesn’t feel like it’s improving.

And if you ARE stretching the right thing but the range never seems to stick, try loading the tissue after you stretch it. Dr. Tyler’s analogy: it’s like hitting “save” on a document. Stretch into the new range, then put a little work into it there, and your brain holds onto it way better.

Been stretching the same spot but it’s not helping? Come see us, we got you!

Abbreviated hours this week, new hours next week! Our urgent care/walk in services are a regular part of our clinic, so ...
09/28/2026

Abbreviated hours this week, new hours next week!

Our urgent care/walk in services are a regular part of our clinic, so they are in the exact same building, and same front desk and lobby as our clinic.

Just like larger urgent care clinics, you do not need to make an appointment, but feel free to call ahead and do so if you like!

FNP Nikki Strout and RN Becky Vallely are happy to see you for anything you would normally go to an urgent care/walk-in clinic for, including sniffles, cough, sports injuries, x-ray, skin conditions, ear/nose/throat issues…etc!

Any questions? Let us know below in the comments! 👇

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09/27/2026

Get to know our newest provider, Nikki Strout! 🎤✨🙋🏼‍♀️

Huge thanks to the Town of Cape Elizabeth for hosting us last week for their first annual Employee Recognition Day & Wel...
09/26/2026

Huge thanks to the Town of Cape Elizabeth for hosting us last week for their first annual Employee Recognition Day & Wellness Fair!

What an absolutely cool idea to do something like this for employees who work so hard day in and day out to keep all of our community services going. Tyler and Nikki had a great time getting to know everyone!

The BBQ spread didn’t miss and although we had to get back to patients before the co****le tournament got underway, we did have time for some cutthroat tableside RPS. 😅

What a great time! We are so happy to be here for our community.

What does practicing PT look like when you’re part of a truly multidisciplinary team?At Cape Integrative Health, our phy...
09/25/2026

What does practicing PT look like when you’re part of a truly multidisciplinary team?

At Cape Integrative Health, our physical therapists work alongside chiropractors, acupuncturists, nurse practitioners and other providers, bringing different perspectives to the same goal: helping the person in front of us get better.

That means collaboration and the opportunity to practice in an environment where patient-centered care and meaningful outcomes come first.

We’re looking for a Physical Therapist to join our clinical team in Cape Elizabeth.

If that sounds like the way you want to practice, we’d love to hear from you!

Link in bio to learn more and apply.

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