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!