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Head and Neck Back Hip Rib Cage Groin and pubis Shoulder
Knee Elbow Ankle and Foot Wrist and Hand Fibromyalgia
OFTEN LIGAMENT AND TENDON PROBLEMS HAVE NOT BEEN PROPERLY DIAGNOSED. IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT YOU HAVE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS, AND OTHER TREATMENTS HAVE NOT RESOLVED YOUR SYMPTOMS, YOU MAY WANT TO SEEK EVALUATION BY A PHYSICIAN EXPERIENCED IN PROLOTHERAPY.
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Head and Neck: Some migraine headaches, TMJ, whiplash injuries, Barre-Lieou Sydrome (headache, blurred vision, abnormal tearing, hoarseness, vertigo, ear pain and fullness, ringing in the ears, other hearing disturbances, sinus fullness and drainage, etc.) which is occasionally seen with whiplash injuries, recurring neck spasm, neck instability, cervical disk disease.
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Back: Recurring back spasm and trigger points in the upper, mid and lower back; pain, spasm, and instability of the lumbar spine area; problems previously diagnosed as ‘bulging disk’, arthritis of spine, sciatica, spondylolisthesis, and spondylosis; Sacroiliac strain and instability. Often pain following back surgery can be improved or cured by Prolotherapy. Back surgery can often be avoided by treatment with Prolotherapy.
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Hip: Pain, loss of cartilage. Hip replacement can often be delayed or avoided by treatment with Prolotherapy.
Rib Cage: costochondritis, non-cardiac chest wall pain.
Groin and pubis: strain, ‘pulled muscle’, pulled hamstring. Occasionally a pubic arch tendon can refer pain into the genital area, or into the lower thigh.
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Shoulder: rotator cuff injury and instability, torn labrum, pain over scapula, AC joint pain or separation. Often people are told that they have a ‘bone spur’ when they actually have lesions that can be treated with Prolotherapy. Pain following arthroscopic surgery is often found to be due to connective tissue causes which respond to Prolotherapy.
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Knee: pain, loss of cartilage, Baker’s cyst, partial ACL tear, collateral ligament injury. Often people diagnosed with a ‘cartilage problem’ have multiple other soft tissue sources of pain around the knee which respond very well to Prolotherapy. Often knee replacement can be delayed, or avoided, by treatment with Prolotherapy.
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Elbow: tennis elbow, pain following dislocation or trauma, ‘throwers elbow’, biceps tendon injury.
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Ankle and Foot: acute sprains, recurring sprains and instability, chronic pain, plantar fasciitis, bone spurs, pain in joints of toes, arthritis (not rheumatoid), Achilles tendon strain or partial rupture. Occasionally the diagnosis of Morton’s neuroma is made when pain in the ball of the foot is actually due to connective tissue damage.
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Wrist and Hand: pain following trauma, sprain or fracture; carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis of digits (not rheumatoid), wear and tear injury.
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Fibromyalgia: the tenderness to palpation in multiple connective tissue sites (which characterizes fibromyalgia) will respond to Prolotherapy in the same way that other connective tissue damage responds.
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Special Notes: Rheumatoid Arthritis will not respond to Prolotherapy. If a patient has rheumatoid arthritis that is inactive (documented by laboratory tests), they may benefit from Prolotherapy for certain tendon and ligament problems. If you have a history of rheumatoid arthritis, or other collagen vascular disease, make sure you discuss this with your physician.
Steroid medications will significantly reduce the healing response caused by Prolotherapy. If possible, cease these medications entirely or reduce the dose as far as possible while undergoing Prolotherapy treatment. If you have received a steroid injection in a joint, it is best to wait at least a month before treating that joint with Prolotherapy. If you are contemplating a steroid injection, and are also considering Prolotherapy, please discuss this with me before making your decision. Feel free to call me at 615-506-0536.
Anti-inflammatory medication such as Advil, Aleve, Bextra, Celebrex, Asprin, Motrin, Relafen, etc., will significantly reduce the healing response caused by Prolotherapy. If used long term, these agents will also reduce your ‘wear and tear’ healing response, so that you will likely develop other painful joints in the future. These medications not only DO NOT PROMOTE HEALING in damaged tissues, they DO NOT ALLOW HEALING. These medications will lessen the inflammatory response that your body creates in damaged tissue, which is your body’s way of telling that you have a structure that needs to be guarded, or that needs treatment. The pain stops, but the damage is unchanged. In addition to reducing the ‘I am damaged, do not overuse me’ inflammation, these medicines also lessen the ‘chemotactic’ inflammatory response, which is the essential first step in any healing in your body.
The Healing Process: Your body is continually dismantling and rebuilding itself. Injury adds an additional burden to the body’s construction system. It is very important that you understand the reconstruction system—the factors that aid this system and allow it to do its job, and the factors that hinder this system and prevent it from doing its job. All of us want to live a long, youthful, vigorous, pain free life. The opposite of this is chronic unhealed injury, pain, wearing out, aging, disability, and giving up. Things that aid healing are adequate sleep, good nutrition, good nutritional supplements as necessary, and frequent moderate exercise. Things that compromise healing are inadequate sleep, poor nutrition, no exercise or infrequently ‘overdoing it’, some medications, and some forms of ‘treatment’. Other factors are involved as well. Bodily pain is often the intersection of emotional factors, spiritual factors and structural factors.
It is up to you to become a student of your own body. If you have a problem, learn what is actually wrong, what works to fix what is wrong, how you can help your body heal, how you can stop hurting yourself, and how you can protect yourself. Trusting ‘your doctor’ to give you a comprehensive plan to heal all the problems that your body is going to encounter may not be a successful strategy. I have deep respect for physicians. I am one. Physicians have limits, even the best ones. There came a time when I had to look beyond mainstream medical practices to find answers and to find healing. I have heard that same story from many, many people.
It is my hope that this website gives you enough information to introduce you to Prolotherapy. If you want to find more information, please select the following link to GetProlo.com, a very large educational website containing articles about Prolotherapy per se, and articles about treating various conditions. From this website, you may order several books on Prolotherapy by Dr. Ross Hauser. I strongly recommend these Prolotherapy Resources.
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