My Journey to Creating More than a Pain Cream…

Dr. Mona Robbins, DAOM, L.Ac.

ATx Founder/ Researcher/ Practitioner

Dr. Mona holds an advanced clinical doctorate in Eastern Medicine (DAOM). She is licensed by the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice as an Acupuncturist. (L.Ac.) She has performed thousands of pain treatments in her clinical practice in Minnesota. Her ground-breaking doctoral thesis explores how to utilize the body’s innate immune system to shift tissue immune cells to relieve pain and heal. Inspired by her mother’s devastating struggle, Dr. Mona combined her extensive education and pain relief experience to create highly effective topical products. Her mission is to help others regain their freedom of movement and live life to the fullest.

ATx Origin Story: A Very Personal Case-Study

For nearly 40 years, my mom worked as a nurse and the physical demands of her job took a toll on her body. After a failed back surgery, she was left in excruciating pain. Even the simple act of moving from a chair to the bathroom became an overwhelming challenge.

Despite holding advanced degrees in Eastern Medicine and specializing in pain, my hands-on treatments weren’t enough to help her. She needed a powerful product that could fill in the gaps between treatments and provide enough relief to allow her to live her life—to move from the chair to the bathroom, to the kitchen, and beyond.

The most popular and expensive product on the market lacked medicinal herbs, had insufficient CBD, was greasy, and had an unpleasant, overpowering scent.

I did find a promising herbal pain cream that I combined with a CBD gel and together, as confirmed by Mom, the concoction provided her with the most relief she had ever experienced.

The imperfect, but effective solution got exponentially harder when the herbal pain cream company closed leaving me without a key formula in my “homemade” remedy. I set to work, recreating and improving that initial formula.

Unfortunately, before my work was completed, my mom passed away from COVID. I was devastated.

Though I couldn’t make it in time for her, I didn’t give up. I was determined to continue, knowing that if I couldn’t make it for her, I could make it for others in pain. She would want that.

There is so much suffering in the world, and I know she would want me to keep going. After almost two years of refining the formulas with the help of expert chemists and their state-of-the-art laboratory, and lots of feedback from my patients, we've finally created what I believe to be the best topical product.