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Kyla Helm-Swanson, MD, FAARFM, ABAARM
Board Certified Family Medicine and Functional Medicine
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 14 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 in 2013. She has 2 children and lives in Rapid City, SD.
Angela Ratzsch, CNP
Angela Ratzsch CNP began her medical career as a nurse in 2001. She graduated from Casper Community College with an associate’s degree and began practicing in Casper, Wyoming. In 2004, she received her Bachelor’s of Science in nursing from the University of Wyoming and continued her career working in various specialties to include general medical/surgical nursing and hemodialysis. In 2003 she switched to Emergency nursing and worked in multiple locations as an ER nurse until 2010.
Angela also worked in case management and weight management as a nurse while obtaining her Masters of Science in Nursing. She graduated from Walden University in 2016 and became a Certified Nurse Practitioner. She has practiced in multiple specialties including Internal Medicine and Weight Management. She has always had an interest in wellness and helping people live their best life and in 2019 began working in Functional Medicine with Dr. Kyla Helm-Swanson MD. Angela is also currently working part time in mental health.
Angela views each patient as an individual and works with them to understand their goals for treatment. She combines her knowledge from all specialties to develop an individual treatment plan combining both conventional medicine practices with functional medicine modalities.
When she is not working she enjoys traveling with her husband and spending time with her children.
Lindsey Hansen, CNP
Lindsey Hansen, CNP started her medical career with a Degree in Sports and Exercise Science, graduating from University of Northern Colorado in 2008. She worked in clinical research at Monument Health while she pursued her nursing degree. She graduated from South Dakota State University with her bachelor's in nursing in 2013. She worked as an intensive care nurse for five years until she pursued her Master’s Degree.
She graduated from Clarkson College with her Masters of Science in Nursing in 2018 and became a Certified Nurse Practitioner. She has practiced in cardiology as well as psychiatry since graduating. She has always had an interest in treating the patient as a whole and is excited to start working in Functional Medicine with Dr. Kyla Helm- Swanson MD.