Who is Dr. Brizman?

Who Is Dr. Brizman….

Dr. Matia Brizman, Ph.D. M.T.O.M., L.Ac., D.Ac., Dipl.Ac. & C.H.
Doctor of Classical Chinese Medicine
Master of Traditional Oriental Medicine
Licensed Acupuncturist (California)

Dr. Brizman’s Ph.D. dissertation was on IC and Integration of Western, Classical Chinese, and Alternative Medicine.

Dr. Brizman and her husband, Boaz Brizman opened a clinic called BOMA-Med in 1996 in Los Angeles. While her husband specializes in chronic, debilitating immune/lung disorders such as asthma, bronchitis and allergies, Dr. Brizman’s main focus is the treatment of imbalances of the colon and bladder, in particular IC.

Dr. Brizman has treated many IC patients over the course of her young practice. She treats primarily women since the majority of patients are female, but she also treats men. A quote from her interview (taken from “An Interview with Dr. Matia Brizman)) explains why she decided to practice Chinese medicine. “Several years ago I was very, very sick and there was little that Western medicine could do for me. I was left feeling hopeless with nowhere else to turn. So I turned to Chinese medicine. When Chinese medicine helped me regain control of my life I vowed that I would dedicate my life to helping others. I had a lucrative and successful career in another area but I quit and decided to go to school to learn how to practice this type of medicine. Giving people their lives back is what I live for. I love to take someone who has tried everything and can’t get better any other way and help that person.”

Dr. Brizman has been developing her work since 1995 when she started her internship. Having a very strong interest in research, her goals have been focused on keeping her work private until such time as she could commence a formal research project. Many attempts at formal research have proven unsuccessful so she has continued with her own private research. Her plan is to publish her completed body of knowledge when the work is at a fully developed stage. She feels this is the best way to pass on this knowledge in the most responsible and prospectively helpful manner.

Keeping her formulas private is her way of preserving her work and its integrity in the mean time. This will prevent incorrect applications of her formulas. This means that the process from start to finish must be delivered correctly month after month with constant formula changes being delivered at the appropriate times. Without the appropriate application, not only will the process not work; both Chinese medicine and its ability to treat this disease will get a “bad wrap”.

The medical community in general wants there to be a magic “pill” to fix a given problem. This is neither the philosophy upon which Chinese medicine nor Dr. Brizman’s work is based. Her approach to this illness as well as any other complex disease is to individualize each treatment. Her methods are deeply rooted in the fundamentals of Chinese medicine, but the application of those methods have been modernized to fit the model of IC. It is because of this that she is having such good results with her treatments.

Dr. Brizman is unlike any other medical professional that you will ever meet. She is incredibly compassionate, caring, dedicated and passionate about helping her patients. You only have to read all the patient stories to see how consistently they confirm these facts. She listens and she fully understands. Understands is the major word here. Have you actually spoken to a urologist who “understands” what you have? Goes over your symptoms in the minutest detail? Tries to describe to you what you are feeling? Dr. Brizman does. You know that she “gets” this disease and you know that she is completely involved in your treatment.

Are we all the same? Are our symptoms all the same? No. Why are we all being given the same pill, or the same procedure. How can Ditropan, or Detrol or Pyridium help someone who has frequency and pressure, someone who has urgency and pain, someone who as burning and pressure? Not only does it not make sense but it doesn’t give us the degree of relief we are seeking. If you don’t understand what causes something how can you treat it?

Here is an important fact: You will find this repeated throughout the website. No two people are totally alike. If you talk to 10 IC patients you will find 10 different combinations of symptoms from which they are suffering. Imagine one pill or one procedure fixing that problem. Does it make sense? Imagine someone who takes a complete history; who looks at you; who examines you; who tailors the “medication”, in this case herbs, to you personally, almost down to the last grain; who adjusts those herbs again and again as she sees the effects of the different herbs on you. Eventually the right combination is achieved and you really begin to move forward in a positive direction.

Dr. Brizman provides some insight into Chinese medicine in her interview on this website so we will not repeat it here. However, we will say that it makes sense, it is healthy, and it works. In the hands of a gifted professional like Dr. Brizman it is amazing. Her in-depth knowledge of herbs and acupuncture, combined with her intimate understanding of the disease make for an awesome outcome. She has the herbs mixed specially for the individual she is treating. She will adjust the mix time and time again as she follows the progress of each person to get optimum results – cleansing and healing with the least amount of discomfort.

We have all read the horror stories of those thousands of people who have been suffering from IC for years with no relief. We don’t have to read the stories, we have our own experiences to go by. Imagine that you walk into a medical clinic and find that you can actually get help. This medical professional is available to help you during the down times. She follows up with you on a regular basis. You may doubt the process but you trust her. You just know she knows what she is doing. Eventually you come through the worst and you realize that a small miracle has happened. Not only is your discomfort significantly reduced, so are a lot of the other problems you have. She has done her homework and is involving herself in treating the whole you. That medical professional is Dr. Matia Brizman, and you feel that she is completely involved with you on a personal basis. Dr. Brizman has a veritable stable of grateful and extremely loyal patients.

There are more horror stories about the ravages of traditional treatment than there are success stories. Just visit many of the support sites for IC and thoroughly depress yourself with the sad tales of years of pain and discomfort. Most of these people are going to traditional doctors. I am sure you have seen the stories of people coming home after a DMSO treatment, screaming in agony. Or the person who is taking Elmiron who ends up with ringing in the ears and her hair falling out, or in some cases, liver damage. Many people are walking medicine cabinets. Some are even told that they just have to live with it. What kind of treatments are these? If any of this worked would you see all the messages from people suggesting the most off-the-wall product or questionable procedure, simply out of desperation.

We, understand that, in the wrong hands, herbs can also be toxic. As mentioned, Dr. Brizman has an in-depth a knowledge of herbs. She has obtained the highest standards for Chinese herbal medicine certification in the U.S., having passed both state and national boards. She knows what to administer, when to administer and when to remove. They are healthy and nourishing and provide a great deal of the ingredients for which we all took synthetic products in the past (vitamins etc.).

You cannot argue with the fact that there is someone who knows her trade so well and knows the disease so intimately that she is consistently helping so many people with IC. These are mostly people who had tried everything and were still suffering. These are people who quickly saw a difference. They saw that the process worked and that there was light at the end of the tunnel.

They came to Dr. Brizman because they had no other choice. And the ones that stick with it never look back. Many of them are already symptom-free, and so many more are on the way to the achieving the greatest sense of wellness they have had since their disease began.