Integrative Medicine

Dear Dr. DiRoma, 

Thank you so much for everything. Another year of treatment has come and gone, a year of ups and downs, hurdles and struggle, revelations and more and through it all we've been beyond thankful for the patience, care, compassion and support we've received from you. 

You've truly saved me from the worst of a serious and severe amount of pain and debilitation in so many ways and situations. You've  given us hope and a pathway  to healing and life in spite of the limitations of the Lyme journey. Thank you for never giving up. Thank you for walking through the storm with us. I know I express thanks every year, but life on this earth is precious and short, and people who truly care to partner in safeguarding the quality of that life as you do are rare, and deserve to have the words of gratitude and appreciation. I'm not sure what my health journey will look like in the coming year, but we're both very thankful to have you at the helm watching over and supporting the best life. Thank you so much for all that you do and have done for us and so many people. We hope you have a wonderful  Christmas and holiday season and New Year. May God bless you and keep you and everyone here at the Stram Center. 

Love, 
Angela and Patrick

We feel fortunate every day and we recommend Stram Center to everyone who comes to us with questions.

This review is long overdue. In the winter of 2014, my husband and I found ourselves getting sick every month for no apparent reason. We dismissed it due to wedding planning but then right after our wedding in early 2015, both of our bodies shut down and we were suddenly, severely sick. We spent the next year and a half visiting doctors and specialists with a couple trips to the emergency room. We endured scares of cancer, MS, Mono, Chikungunya virus, Typhus, MRIs of every major organ, the brain, and spine, countless amounts of blood work along with a painful spinal tap. We were checked for Lyme three times by our doctors but results came back inconclusive. Neither of us ever even had a rash! Eventually we were told, "We don't know what's wrong with you, wait and see what happens." We were so sick that we couldn't get up to get a drink of water without exhaustion or fully explain what was wrong due to impaired/delayed cognitive function, just to name a couple symptoms. We had no quality of life and thought we would never get better. Our doctors advised against going to Stram Center but we were fed up and desperately needed help. We went to Stram Center in Delmar, in the summer of 2016 and we are forever grateful we did!  who tested us and began treatment immediately. Treatment was intense but we followed protocols exactly as instructed and started feeling better within weeks!! We continued treatment as advised and I'm happy to say that I completely finished treatment by October 2016 and my husband finished this past March. We are both in complete remission without major symptoms. We have our lives back! We feel fortunate every day and we recommend Stram Center to everyone who comes to us with questions. Everyone we met at Stram Center in Delmar was not only very helpful but they were the most compassionate and patient people with us during the hardest time of our lives. Thank you so-so-so- much Stram Center!!

Beth has come all the way from England for long term treatment at the Stram Center. She became like family to us and here is what she has to say:

Dear Ron (Dr. Stram): Thank you for being the doctor who has finally worked out what is wrong with me. This has been the hardest few years of my life but finding you and your amazing clinic has helped me find the positives. Thank you for giving me the hope of getting better. Thank you for the amazing staff at your clinic- I have been completely blown away by the incredible level of knowledge and support. I've been given the strength to not give up. Staff and patients have inspired me to keep going through the hardest of days. I know I have a long way to go but I couldn't feel in safer hands and I am so thankful my journey led me to you. You are such a special, unique clinic that provides a perfect healing environment. the world needs more Stram clinics! So from the bottom of my hear, thank you for everything.
To all the amazing nurses at the Stram Center: I really can't thank you all enough for what you have done for me! You have given me strength to keep fighting through some of my hardest days. You highlight perfectly what being a nurse is all about and I will be very happy if I can help people in the way you all do! Thank you all for sharing your incredible knowledge and kindness to help me on my healing journey.

They were the first health care facility that seemed to truly listen to my concerns and symptoms.

 Before I found them, I was told I might never get better, and I began to believe that, as I felt worse with every day. Once I started my medical journey with the Stram Center everything changed. They finally pieced together the missing pieces of the puzzle and over the course of a few years I went from hardly able to go for walks, to running for miles and miles. I went from sick, exhausted, and chronically in pain to healthy, active and normal. I am forever grateful for the consideration they gave me, the treatment plan they tailored to my body, and the care they take with each of their patients. If you're sick, and you are looking to heal, look no further. I believe they saved my life.

 Thank you will never cover my gratitude. But thank you to the team at the Stram Center. 

Dr Stram and his team have been a Godsend. I truly thought I was facing death when I went to my first appointment. Lyme Disease had attacked my body for almost a year, focusing on my heart. I had been in the hospital with abnormalities, and Dr Stram took that very seriously. He addressed the heart issues immediately. Dr Stram is like no other doctor I have met. And I’ve seen MANY. He sincerely cares, takes his time, addresses all questions I have, I never feel rushed, and he’s truly compassionate and giving. Between him and his staff, I never feel pushed off or like I’m a burden. I have many questions often and I never have to wait long for a response. I could go on for days about how I highly recommend Dr Stram and his staff. The team is highly equipped with many different services to help with detoxing and self care. Massage, acupuncture, HBOT, Sauna, and so much more. What more can I say, other than I know this man saved my life. Thank you will never cover my gratitude. But thank you to the team at the Stram Center. 

He's literally repaired my body so much and he does it with the utmost compassion. We don't just feel like we are having a doctor visit when I come to see him. My husband and I both feel like he is right there in the fight with me, you can see the caring in his eyes. I'm also thankful for the professionalism and caring of all of the staff. You all make dealing with this illness so much easier.

"Within a month, I was nearly pain free, my digestion was under control and I was able to enjoy things in life again"

Kim has this to say about her experience-
I don't often do recommendations, but these folks are truly wonderful! The Stram Center is extremely clean and welcoming. The staff are very pleasant, supportive, and helpful. They really care about the patients, and have always taken the time and effort responding to any questions I have had. I arrived at the Stram Center with chronic joint pain throughout my body, IBS, arthritis, and severe fatigue. With the help of their fantastic licensed acupuncturist, herbal medications, and sound professional advise from Dr. Stram I improved weekly. Within a month I was nearly pain free, my digestion was under control, and I was able to enjoy things in life again. Highly Recommended!!

This incredible team! Devoted heart and soul to working with patients.

If I could, and maybe someday I will, I’d write a whole book thanking the doctors at the Stram Center for Integrative Medicine for the superbly sensitive and wonderfully compassionate medical care that they are providing me and my family.

When I discovered Dr. Stram in July 2005, I was feeling rather desperate. I had lymphoma in 2002, and at the time, I sought treatment from a highly respected doctor at a major cancer center in New York City. Over the next year, this doctor traumatized me with his careless and ultimately, highly irresponsible attitude toward my body and health. I finally left his care when he demonstrated in no uncertain terms that he cared far more about his research project than he did about me.

In 2003, I began seeing a local physician to coordinate my follow-up care. But every time I would see him, he would conclude the visit with the same awful words: “You are disgustingly healthy.” He chuckled when I told him I did yoga.

Finally, I decided I had to find a doctor who supported my approach to staying healthy. I searched the internet, but then, a good friend in Delmar told me about The Stram Center, right in the Capital District. She had heard about the center, and suggested I make an appointment to see Dr. Stram.

Can I say miracle? Can I say rainbow? Can I say that I came out of an hour and a half visit with these fabulous doctors in tears of joy and gratitude? I am a big believer in prayer, and I believe God answered my prayers when I found this incredible team, devoted heart and soul to working with patients to heal body and soul. I have since brought my husband and both daughters to see the doctors. The Center is on the forefront of a new era of medicine, one combining West and the East. One that recognizes a wide array of healing techniques to treat not just the body, but the spirit as well.

The doctors at the Center have given me the support I need to begin to recover from the deep trauma I suffered at the hands of clueless and uncaring physicians. I thank Dr. Stram for opening an office HERE! And for doing all they do to promote good health. Bless you!

Listen as Mary describes how seeing Dr. Ron Stram and the caring practitioners at the Stram Center for Integrative Medicine near Albany, NY, has been one of the top 10 best things she's done in her life.

Thank you to such an amazing center and team. What you've done for myself and my family cannot be described in words. You go above and beyond and I'm eternally grateful for your help.

I am so thankful for the very few practitioners left who can do what Dr. Stram and Dr. DiRoma due, find a root cause and heal. 

There I was, sick, sick for over two years periodic episodes of 101-104 fevers, 90 pound weight loss, heart palpitations, nerve pain, fatigue, joint pain, headaches, brain fog, sudden OCD symptoms, horrible constipation alternating with days of making frequent trips to the bathroom, unbearable GI pain, constant nausea, heartburn even though I was on medication, electrolyte imbalances, dizziness, urinary issues, leg weakness to the point where I would sometimes fall over when standing, and yet not one of the 14 doctors I saw could give me answers. I was thrown around from specialty to specialty told it may be IBD, hypothyroidism, lupus, or maybe it was cancer. I felt like a lab rat being poked, scoped, and having every test you can think of. All possible diagnoses wrong.

Desperate as I sat home accepting this was the way the rest of my life was going to be. My family frustrated unable to help me, watching me rapidly decline. Then a light went off, my mom who worked with Dr. Stram over 20 years ago in ER medicine and suggested I see him to take a holistic approach to just help me feel better, I did not even know he was a LLMD at the time. I was so desperate to just feel better that I no longer wanted a diagnosis but just wanted to feel better. I walked into his office and was a bit hesitant as I have been failed by so many already, but he figured me out. Less than two weeks later I was CDC positive for Lyme, Tick Borne Relapsing Fever, and Bartonella. Here I am 6 months later, all of my symptoms better. I can function again; I feel like I have a future again. To be a 26-year-old mother to a child with a disability in our medical system, I was written off as being just “stressed” because I had a child with down syndrome, but Dr. Stram saw me, a woman who was indeed very sick and who was worthy of good health. Dr. Stram and his whole team has helped me and given me so much to look forward to again. I felt so alone, so ill, and had given up. The Stram Center has given me hope, gave me back purpose, gave me back my health & my future and for that I feel so grateful. I am so thankful for the very few practitioners left who can do what Dr. Stram and Dr. DiRoma due, find a root cause and heal. They are the very few making a difference and challenging the medical field to be better. In a broken medical system, they are the shining stars that are truly helping ill people regain health. To all of the healing hands at The Stram Center, thank you.