Testimonials

Dr. LaCava is an excellent physician who uses a wide range of lab tests to determine the person's individual problem and treatment plan rather than attempting to apply out-of-the-box treatments based on a few clinical symptoms. Dr. LaCava is one of those rare doctors who actually tries to solve people's medical problems rather than just put band-aids on it. While he can be occasionally abrupt to adults, he is always patient and engaging with his pediatric population. I really think he is a great doctor and our family continues to visit him even after moving a bit of a distance away from his office."

Dr Sponaugle and his team are so skilled at treating Lyme ,mold toxicity , parasites and really get to the bottom of any medical issue.Doc gives hands down the most thorough physical you could ever get. He gets down to the nitty gritty and figures out the cause of ailments,then goes about making your body healthy enough to cure its self ( with lots of assistance at first) and on top of giving me back my life and a vibrant health , Sponaugle wellness is a second home where there is love and friendship and compassion and yes a lot of laughs and learning as well. They really take the time to educate the patients. I practically got a PHD in so many areas i.e. Gut health, Lyme and effective treatment methods, mold and keeping my body safe and my home clear of mold, supplements and how they help balance your body, relationship between the gut and the brain, I could go on and on. i am very grateful how the clinic healed 24 members of my family from a variety of serious health challenges. God bless the Sponaugle wellness team for all the loving healing they deliver to their patients!

I suffered with chronic fatigue all my life until I went to the Sponaugle Wellness Institute. I have nine children and after I put them to bed each night I would run to bed myself. I took daily naps and was exhausted all the time. My sister, her family and our parents had been to the clinic for treatment of Lyme Disease, mold toxicity, brain fog and many other symptoms. I watched their lives be transformed after that. I listened, researched on line and learned everything I could from my sister. After about a year I called and talked to a patient coordinator for about an hour. He was so helpful and informative. He didn't give any medical advice but explained how things work and answered my hundreds of questions. I enrolled myself, my husband and two of our teenage children into the program. They were experiencing various symptoms of Lyme Disease and mold toxicity including muscle aches and pains, brain fog, fatigue, severe anxiety and much more. (Subsequently I had my house treated for mold which was in the duct work and blowing mold spores throughout my entire house. We also lived on a farm every summer and surely got tick bites as children and were never treated for them as we had no idea what damage a tiny tick could pose nor did we know about Lyme Disease.) We went to the clinic and were treated for several weeks. We learned so much about our condition from the weekly lectures Doc gave, talking with other patients, spending time with nurses and private appointments with the Doc. This doctor and his clinic are truly a life saver. We saw many patients come in in a wheel chair and leave walking. I personally left there with the most energy I have ever had in my entire life. I had high mold levels, Lyme spirochetes and coinfections. Doc also discovered I had adrenal fatigue and low thyroid function along with a miriade of other things. It has been three years since me and my family were treated at the clinic. I am a new person. I can stay up past 8pm like the rest of the world and don't walk around exhausted all day. I have vitality which I have never had in my life. I have stayed on many of the supplements Doc put me on and every year or so I do blood work and have my nurse review my supplements. I have also gone back to the clinic for detox drips and I enrolled two of my other daughters for various health issues including anxiety, concussions, mold toxicity and Lyme Disease. Doc continued to treat my family with dignity, respect and his wealth of knowledge. He's a genius. He would FaceTime me for our meeting with him and one of my daughters since I couldn't be there in person. I would go to his clinic again if I needed to...

Five stars just isn't enough. I was treated for Lyme Disease and Mold toxicity by doctor Sponaugle and his staff a couple years ago. I was sick, screaming in pain some nights and not able to walk for what felt like a large part of my early teenage years. Going to this clinic turned my life around. I'm healthy now, and even able to workout again. That's something no other doctor in Canada could do for me. When I first began treatment at the Sponaugle Wellness Institute, I finally felt like these people understood and believed what was happening to me. Because they really do know what they're talking about. Whatever symptom brought to their attention, there was a reason, AND a solution, not just a bandaid. To this day I cant say I trust anyone with my health more than doctor Sponaugle and his staff.

I just completed my first week here at Sponaugle Wellness Institue. My name is Ashley and I am a 29 year old female from PA. I have been sick since birth and no doctor, hospital, or professional was able to give me any hope until I met Dr. Sponaugle. He is the most intelligent, educated, wise, and passionate doctor I have ever met. The nurses and staff are all just as exceptional. Growing up I was in and out of the ER with stabbing pain in my right side. I was an athlete my whole life and had to work 10 times as hard to perform due to breathing problems, muscle fatigue, and pain issues which I now know was due to Lyme, co infections, and mold toxicity. I went to college where I was a starter on a national championship field hockey team with a scholarship that I fought like hell to keep in the midst of losing my health and my mind. I had access to the “best” doctors, trainers, and hospitals all around me due to my status as an athlete, yet I was struggling to not take my own life I was so sick and hopeless. No one could figure out why I couldn’t breathe, use my legs, overcome migraines, stop being depressed and anxious, sleep like a normal person, or figure out what was causing my chronic pain. I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue, chronic pain, IBS, acid reflux, insomnia, migraines, food sensitivities, over training, PTSD, depression, anxiety, PCOS, and shuffled off to a pain clinic where I was fed pain medications to keep my symptoms at bay enough to keep me quiet. I settled for a garbage quality of life and just decided to try to make other people happy and healthy since I gave up hope for myself. I pushed through symptoms and went to grad school for clinical mental health still suffering quietly and taking my pain medication. I graduated and was working my dream job as a drug and alcohol counselor when I fell severely ill again. I decided to take myself off my pain medication this year and that when I realized I was right back in the same horror I left. I was unable to work because I had no more motivation or inspiration left in me to pass to others who were in such a dark place; which was my biggest asset prior to falling ill again. Hormone imbalances became so bad I was diagnosed with Endometriosis. Doctors began throwing around the idea of surgeries and a hysterectomy. If I would have accepted that misdiagnosis it would have been a permanent irreversible mistake. I knew I had hit my limit with chasing the symptom trail and demand to be tested again for Lyme; I tested positive twice. No doctor felt confident in treating my Lyme and having a positive outcome. The plan was antibiotics for at least 9 months with no guarantee of improvement. My family friend...

Healing lives, creating futures is Sponaugle Wellness Institutes tagline, and I think Dr. Sponaugle does more then that, he saved my life! I was a patient at SWI just over 3 years ago and was treated for chronic Lyme disease and mold toxicity. When I arrived I was in a wheelchair and extremely ill. Within weeks I no longer needed that wheelchair and by the time I left I knew that I had my life back. It took awhile after leaving for my body to fully heal post treatment, which is expected, and now three years later I still feel amazing! Prior to receiving treatment at SWI I saw over 25 doctors, which non-could diagnose me or even begin to treat me. I had been suffering with Lyme disease for a majority of my life and within minutes of meeting Doc, I knew I was in the right place and he was able to explain to me exactly what had been causing me such pain for so many years. Doc and all his staff are amazing to their patients and their family. I loved that Doc taught us about Lyme and explained to us what was happening so that we always understood what was happening to our bodies throughout his treatment. I am so thankful for having found Sponaugle Wellness Institute as without it I don’t know where I would be. But I know that I would not be the lively, health, active, person I am today. Since treatment at SWI I have watched friends and family go through the same amazing healing process as I here. I will continue to recommend this treatment centre for anyone who I talk to.

When coming to Sponaugle Wellness Institute, I had exhausted all my options and considered this clinic as my last hope. I was wheelchair bound, unable to stand, had slurred speech and sometimes unable to speak, had intense seizures, and had stomach issues. Dr. Sponaugle and his staff treated me and believed in my healing even when things seemed lost and unhopeful. There were countless nights when Dr. Sponaugle and his nurses spent hours trying to stop my seizures and get me stable. He even stayed during Hurricane Irma to treat several patients, including myself, who were too ill to evacuate. Dr. Sponaugle never gave up on me, and for that, I am forever grateful. He and his staff will do whatever they can to bring their patients to health and healing.