Dear Dr. Stram and his wonderful team of helpers,
Jim and I want to take this special holiday time to let you all know how much we appreciate everything   you guys have done for us.  Not only did all Jim's lyme disease and other co-occurring illnesses disappear, but also he experienced great healing from his traumatic brain injury of 30+ years ago. Jim is a new man now. I have my wonderful husband back. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the amazing healing you offer the world.
With deep gratitude,
Jennifer and Jim V

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.

He and his staff are efficient, caring, kind and do all they can to get you on the path back to recovery and well-being.

The Stram Center for Integrative Medicine is top notch. Dr. Ronald Stram, the nurses, nutritionists and office staff at the Stram Center are some of the most competent and caring people I have ever met. Dr. Stram and his staff have a true passion and caring for helping their patients and genuinely get to know you. The Stram Center is different from any other medical facility or doctor's office in that their treatment plans combine both traditional medicine and integrative/homeopathic remedies. The Center has a "spa-like" quality to it, so you don't feel as if you are in a traditional doctor's office. Dr. Stram works with you to customize an optimal protocol to get you back to health. I found that many physicians are simply not versed in identifying, diagnosing and treating conditions such as Lyme Disease, Thyroid issues, etc., and often simply treat symptoms rather than the cause. Dr. Stram has a depth of experience and education in Lyme Disease and other "hard to diagnose" maladies. He and his staff are efficient, caring, kind and do all they can to get you on the path back to recovery and well-being.

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!!

To Dr. Stram & Staff:

For the first part of my journey with Lyme and co-infections, I left each doctor’s appointment in tears.  Tears of frustration, fear, and helplessness.  I went to the Stram Center hoping for a better path.  I also finished each appointment with Dr. Stram in tears – and it wasn’t because of his bad jokes – they were tears of hope and tears of pure happiness.

When my husband and I entered the doors at the Stram Center for the first time, we didn’t think a “normal” life would ever be possible again.  In our minds, Lyme and all its fun friends would forever be a part of our new normal.  This past summer, we walked through those doors again – this time with our three kids – better than normal.  Not only is Lyme not a part of my life anymore, but I feel better than I did before getting sick.  

There is such a comfort in knowing that we have Dr. Stram in our corner.  His expertise has guided us now through so much more than Lyme Disease.  He’s our health guru and is constantly helping us get to the root cause of what might be making us feel anything less than perfect.  There is no greater gift as parents than knowing our family’s health is in the very best hands.

What we’ve learned over the years is that the reason Dr. Stram can be the doctor he is happens because of the team with which he’s surrounded himself.  They allow him to be able to be continually learning and staying at the forefront of the modalities that keep his patients feeling their very best.  I think they even laugh at his jokes too!

Dr. Stram and staff – you not only saved my life but made it better than I ever imagined possible.  The care you give our entire family is priceless and to this day makes me cry tears of happiness and hope.  “Thank you” will never be enough.

With so much love and appreciation, 

Jess and the entire Hudson family

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 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.

I have been meaning to write to you all to thank you so much for all that you have done for Davida and our family.

Greetings Stram Center:

I have been meaning to write to you all to thank you so much for all that you have done for Davida and our family. You have no idea what you have done for us and we will be forever grateful, accommodation in Ireland for life.

Just to tell you how much you have done for us:

Jan 2013 we were in hospital in Dublin thinking that this will be it, as we had our Lyme results from Germany in our hands and that help would be given. Our Dr. had looked for Davida to be admitted as she hadn't walked since the previous Sept and the pain was getting worse. Unfortunately or fortunately as we look at it now they ripped the results up and ranted and raved how crazy we were. I brought Davida home and we had already an appointment in Germany for Feb 12th. Before we left for Germany I asked Davida was she sure about going as she was very unwell and sleeping a lot. She said she had to go as she knew she had someone to meet there...... at the time I thought nothing of this but now believe that was to be Dr Stram.

We are so appreciative of the whole Stram Team and just know that from the reception door to the treatment rooms the atmosphere and the kindness exceeds all other places we have been to. I hope that you are all proud of that and no matter how rough a day has been for any of you just know that you have helped so many just being in the professions that you are all in.

Forever Grateful

Forde Family xxx

Update November, 2014: Davida's energy level has increased and she's able to enjoy outings and is no longer confined 24/7 to a wheelchair‬.

Left to right: Davida in April 2014 going to her favorite team's match. Davida today (November 2014)

Thank you, Dr. Stram! You are the most kind, caring and dedicated doctor we have ever known! We will forever be grateful for your care!

Dr. Stram is an incredible physician. He has devoted his career to helping patients afflicted by Lyme disease get the treatment they need and heal. So grateful for the Stram Center for Integrative Medicine.

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.

Thank you for all y ou have done for me Dr. Stram. I don't know where I would be if it weren't for your knowledge, patience, understanding and compassion. You are the best!

Words cannot express the gratitude I feel toward the Stram Center. After feeling so gaslighted by previous doctors, I went to the Stram Center for help with undiagnosed issues with my gut, weight, skin, and hair loss. I immediately started meeting with Korey DiRoma as my naturopathic doctor and Janna Neitzel as my dietitian. These people really care.

 Through multiple tests, I got a lot of answers about my gut, hormones, and other — the biggest one: Lyme Disease.  And not only that, they listen and KNOW how to help you. I'm still in treatment with Dr. DiRoma, and he has been great. I've had so many of my weird questions answered with understanding and deep knowledge. Each of my appointments have left me feeling more and more hopeful for healing my body.

Meeting with Janna has also been amazing and successful! She gives you the tough truth when you need it, and a kind, caring ear when you need to talk through your food issues. Janna helped me work through disordered eating, food fears, and navigating food sensitivities from Lyme. I was coached in gaining healthy weight back to restore both my physical and mental health. I truly don't know where I'd be without her and am so thankful! My full review of the Stram Center is TBD because I'm still in treatment, but wow— to say the Stram Center has improved my life is an understatement. I'm so excited to keep healing

I feel confident working with her because she listens so well. Her feedback is clear, and her suggestions are doable. Janna developed a nutrition plan for me that will work for the long-term and I feel great!

Over the past few months, Janna has been actively assisting me in improving my health. She has encouraged me to change my daily habits in nutrition as well as exercise. Janna is a pleasure to work with and designs a routine that is adjustable to your life style.

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

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.

Dr. DiRoma was extremely helpful to me during my period of prostate cancer treatment. The nutritional suggestions and herbal supplements he prescribed resulted in a remarkable diminishment of the side effects of my cancer treatments. I found Dr. DiRoma to be patient and informative and a pleasure to work with.

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.

Words cannot express the gratitude I feel toward the Stram Center. After feeling so gaslighted by previous doctors, I went to the Stram Center for help with undiagnosed issues with my gut, weight, skin, and hair loss. I immediately started meeting with Korey DiRoma as my naturopathic doctor and Janna Neitzel as my dietitian. These people really care.

 Through multiple tests, I got a lot of answers about my gut, hormones, and other — the biggest one: Lyme Disease.  And not only that, they listen and KNOW how to help you. I'm still in treatment with Dr. DiRoma, and he has been great. I've had so many of my weird questions answered with understanding and deep knowledge. Each of my appointments have left me feeling more and more hopeful for healing my body.

Meeting with Janna has also been amazing and successful! She gives you the tough truth when you need it, and a kind, caring ear when you need to talk through your food issues. Janna helped me work through disordered eating, food fears, and navigating food sensitivities from Lyme. I was coached in gaining healthy weight back to restore both my physical and mental health. I truly don't know where I'd be without her and am so thankful! My full review of the Stram Center is TBD because I'm still in treatment, but wow— to say the Stram Center has improved my life is an understatement. I'm so excited to keep healing

I  had my first massage with Leslee and as someone who has had body work from numerous massage therapists, I am so impressed by Leslee's presence and professionalism. She used a variety of relaxing massage techniques that enabled the pain in my muscles and mental fatigue to resolve. She also gave me insight o how I can help the pain at home. I've already scheduled several more sessions to work on my chronic neck and back pain. I highly recommend Leslee.

In her hands, you will feel better, have hope, and begin to heal. My weekly sessions have kept my immune issues under control. I feel completely supported by her treatments. Rebecca is just phenomenal! 

I have worked with Rebecca for over one year on a matter doctors could not treat without heavy medicine, which I did not want to do. I looked  for an acupuncturist to help me, and chose to go to the Stram Center to meet with Rebecca. On our first meeting, I felt comfortable to talk to her about my problems. IBS is not really talked about but Rebecca knew how to treat it. Even when I had at tacks, her treatment was always available to me and she made time for me when I needed. I highly recommend Rebecca!

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I have been a patient of Dr. Rebecca Rice for over two years.

A little background…..Several years ago, my sister and I had similar damage to our Achilles tendons, causing significant pain and greatly reducing physical mobility and activity.  We were referred by separate podiatrists for surgery.  My sister followed her podiatrist’s recommendation-two separate surgeries removed her big toe tendons, using them to replace the damaged Achilles tendons. Following each surgery, she endured eight non-weight-bearing weeks, then four weeks in a walking boot and approximately six weeks of physical therapy.  I couldn’t afford the extended post-surgery recovery periods; and, having once enjoyed practicing yoga, I didn’t want to lose my big toe tendons. I arrived at Stram Center limping and in considerable pain.  

In addition to Achilles tendon tears, my heels have bone spurs and Haglund’s deformities (heel bone protrusions). After several months of weekly acupuncture treatments with Rebecca, the pain was greatly reduced and I experienced greater mobility and longer periods of comfort during physical activity.

Over time, as bimonthly maintenance treatments for my heels continued, Rebecca and I regularly identify other areas for treatment that improve my overall physical function, comfort and mobility. I have continually been impressed by Rebecca’s intuitive assessments and subsequent treatments. I highly recommend Dr. Rebecca Rice to anyone seeking to improve their physical health, mobility and comfort.

I firmly believe the reason that my IVF cycle was successful this time was because of my acupuncture treatments with Rebecca. Every step of my IVF cycle I responded more positively, and was much more relaxed throughout the whole process. I am now expecting triplets and continue to see Rebecca once a week.

My experience at the Stram Center for Integrative Medicine has been nothing short of wonderful. I am so grateful to the practitioners for the care and compassion they have shown me. I've been receiving weekly acupuncture from Rebecca over the summer, and the inroads to real, radiant well being have just been astonishing. It is so good to have found someone who can help me work through the years of blocks and deficiencies, really overhauling myself into health. Aided by the herbs and dietary changes she recommended, I've felt such a difference.

I am so glad to have finally found real health care, not just symptomatic cover-up care. The Center is a great place to go when you decide that it's finally time to seek help and really heal.

An Infertility Story: “The Stram Center has been a haven of support and thoughtful, high-quality care.”

Acupuncture was recommended to me during the midst of a challenging period of infertility. We had been trying to conceive for over two years with no luck, and had just been officially diagnosed with ‘unexplained infertility.’ We had begun visits to a fertility clinic, and I was desperate to try all avenues to conceive our first child. I was also very concerned about the impact of the medications and procedures on my body. I was new to acupuncture, and was not sure what to expect, but the experience was incredible, uplifting, and amazing.

Rebecca could not have been better as an ally and advocate for my mental and physical well being. She answered many of my preliminary questions over the phone, and spent a lengthy first session getting to know me, my habits, and my issues. Her procedures were always explained clearly and carefully. Rebecca was also a calm in they eye of the storm for me – always a relaxing presence, who consistently brought me back to my body and its ability, not its disability, to make things happen. The sessions were a time for me to relax and take care of myself, and I left feeling refreshed and ready to take on whatever was next for us. I felt physically better than I had in a long time, and the suggested supplements I was taking in conjunction with the acupuncture helped with my whole body – digestion, clearer thinking, better attitude, even better skin!

We mapped out a series of treatment that would help align my body to be the most receptive to the fertility treatments, and to help with the inherent stress I was under. Though my husband did not go for treatment as well, she suggested it. After just three and a half months, we conceived our baby! I sincerely attribute our success to the addition of acupuncture in our fertility treatments. Rebecca and the Stram Center staff continue to be my first suggestion to friends and family who struggle with a myriad of physical and emotional issues. The Stram Center has been a haven of support and thoughtful, high-quality care.