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Prolotherapy Should Be the
Treatment of Choice for
Ehlers Danlos Syndrome or Hypermobility
Syndrome
Ross
Hauser, M.D.
As a physician, I see many different kinds of people with many
different diagnoses, especially in the field of pain. Some of my
most memorable and dramatic recoveries have come from people
with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a syndrome is characterized by
extreme
ligament laxity.
Thus, the people need extreme ligament treatment and that
treatment is
Prolotherapy.
People who are born with loose joints really should have an
evaluation by a
Prolotherapist. The extreme example of this is
Ehlers-Danlos
Syndrome. If the loose joints are not treated, extremely
early progressive joint destruction commonly occurs. It is
relatively common for folks with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome to end
up in a wheelchair.
Prolotherapy should be a mainstay treatment for anyone with
loose joints including those with
benign
congenital hypermobility, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and those athletes
like gymnasts, ice dancers, and other folks that have extremely
loose joints. If your spine is so loose you can just crack it by
yourself. Some say their back feels tight and this loosens it?
It is the opposite, their ligaments are so stretched out from
all the
manipulation that the vertebral joints are now unstable. The muscles tighten
up to stabilize the joints.
Prolotherapy is an
injection technique that stimulates the body to repair
painful areas. Specifically, substances are injected that
trigger the healing inflammatory reaction to help the ligaments
and
tendons become stronger. The injections are given at the
fibro-osseous junction where the ligaments and tendons attach.
This is typically where they are weakest. A chair will
break down at the joints not in the middle of the chair. The
weakness in the spine or other supporting structures is where
the vertebra meet each other or where two bones meet. This is at
the joints. The nuts and bolts of the body are the ligaments.
Loose jointed, double jointed, dislocators and manipulators all
have weak stretched out ligaments. They need to tighten their
ligaments. The extreme treatment to do this is Prolotherapy.
How many treatments will I need? If you have a little looseness,
then probably three or so treatments will do. If you have
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, you would start out with your most
painful areas and go from there. Folks with this syndrome could
need treatments for one to two years. I have had folks come in
for two days. One day we did the front of their body (yes, all
the joints in the front of their body) and the second day, the
back of their body (yes, all the joints in the back of their
body). This may sound extreme, but it kept them out of a
wheelchair. Extreme looseness necessitates extreme treatment.
The extreme treatment I recommend is Prolotherapy!
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