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Dr. Kyla Helm-Swanson, MD received her Medical Doctorate from the University of South Dakota School of Medicine in 1993.  She then joined the Army and completed a Family Practice Residency at Ft Benning, GA in 1999.  Realizing that much of medicine was not being adequately managed by traditional Western medicine, she completed the UCLA Acupuncture for Physician Course in 2001.  After serving her country, she furthered her education by becoming Board Certified in Pain Medicine in 2004.  

Dr. Helm completed her third board certification in Functional and Regenerative Medicine and is now an Advanced Fellow in Restorative Medicine, completing the program in 2011.  She has been using a Functional Medicine approach to health care with Nutrition as her platform with great success in patients of all ages for the last 15 years. She returned to Rapid City, SD and joined Manlove Brain and Body in 2017.  She worked there until she opened Balanced Healthcare in 2020. She specializes in finding the reason for symptoms and disease.  With this information, she then partners with her patients to create a personalized care plan using integrative therapies. She maintains dual Board Certification in Family Medicine, and Functional and Regenerative Medicine.

She has traveled extensively with her husband who retired from the US Army. She has 2 children and lives in Rapid City, SD.