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Who does Prolotherapy work for? Dr. Ross Hauser, explains if someone is a candidate for Prolotherapy Watch Video Who is Ross Hauser, M.D.? I became fascinated with pain during my Physical Medicine residency. I began accumulating articles on bizarre pain syndromes and obtained quite a collection. What struck me most was the magnitude of the pain problem. It seemed as though everyone either had pain themselves or knew someone who was suffering from chronic pain. I also saw the lack of significant pain relief by modern treatments such as surgery, physical therapy, and anti-inflammatory medications. Learn more about our practice and Prolotherapy Appointment Information

Leading Research on Prolotherapy
RESEARCH and EDITORIALS
- Regeneration of Articular Cartilage with Prolotherapy
- NECK PAIN STUDY
- TMJ STUDY
- PROLOTHERAPY FOR PEOPLE WITH TENDINOSIS
- Medical Research and Prolotherapy
- The History of Prolotherapy
- Medical Study Abstracts

Questions and Answers
PROLOTHERAPY DISCUSSIONS
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Ankle pain, Back pain, Headache, Hip pain,
Knee pain, Meniscus, Myofascial pain,
Sacoiliac pain, neck pain, groin pain,
Sports medicine, Tail bone, TMJ,
Radiculopathy, Shoulder pain

Back Pain
Loose Ligaments and Back Pain
When back pain is due to loose ligaments, a very characteristic behavior of pain is observed. A patient with loose ligaments of the lumbar spine or pelvis will experience recurring dysfunctions at the intervertebral joint (degenerative disc and possible nerve compression)at the facet joints (locking in flexion or extension), and at the sacroiliac joints. In other words, the low back pain can be due to an unstable disc problem, facet joint locking, or sacroiliac dysfunction.

Low Back Pain and Prolotherapy
The first step in determining ligament laxity or instability in the lower back is by physical examination. The examination involves maneuvering the patient into various stretched positions. If weak ligaments exist, the stressor maneuver will cause pain. Do this simple test at home:


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Back Pain main page
Including articles on
Arachnoiditis,Ankylosing Spondylitis
BACK PAIN-Confusion in Diagnosis,
Compression Fracture, Radiofrequency denervation
Spinal Cord Stimulators, Spinal Stenosis, Tarlov Cysts
Women, Back Pain and Hormones, Sacroiliac Pain
Spondylolisthesis

Knee Pain
"Prolotherapy improved the pain and function in five knees with osteoarthritis. All five degenerated knees showed evidence of articular cartilage regeneration in their standard weight-bearing X-rays after Prolotherapy. It is suggested that before and after X-ray studies can be used to document the response of degenerated joints to Prolotherapy. Future research is needed with a larger patient population and under a more controlled setting to further evidence of clinical responses and cartilage regeneration with Prolotherapy."
Journal of Prolotherapy. 2009;1:39-44.



Research
Standard Clinical X-ray Studies Document Cartilage Regeneration in
Five Degenerated Knees After Prolotherapy

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Knee Pain main page
The ligaments and tendons are normally taut, strong bands of fibrous or connective tissue but, because of injury, become relaxed and weak. The injured ligament or tendon then becomes the source of chronic pain and weakness.

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Prolotherapy and Knee Pain
Knee Cap Patella Disorders & Prolotherapy
Ligament and Tendon Laxities
Medial collateral ligament (MCL)
Prolotherapy and Pes Anserinus Tendons

Hip Pain


Before and after
Regeneration of tissue and cartilage repair

PRP Prolotherapy to the Hip

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Prolotherapy and Hip Pain
Snapping Hip Syndrome
Iliotibial Band Injury
Ischial Tuberosity / Hip and Buttocks Pain
Hip Replacement and Prolotherapy
Pain After Dislocation
Hip Pain and Prolotherapy
Hip Labral Tear
Pubic Symphysis Pain
PRP Prolotherapy labral tear of right hip

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Foot Pain
Read articles about
Prolotherapy and Foot Pain
Poor Foot Biomechanics
Chronic Foot Problems Achilles Tendon
Arches of the Foot
Flat Feet
Flat Foot Pain and Posterior Tibial Tendon Injuries
The Painful Big Toe
Plantar FasciitiS/HEEL SPURS BLOG
 

Shoulder Pain
Osteoarthritis of the shoulder is characterized by the destruction of the protective cartilage in the joint with painful and restricted motion. Arthritis does not affect the shoulder joint as often as it does large weight-bearing joints, such as the hip and knee. There is usually a history of trauma to the shoulder or previous surgery. While plain x-rays can confirm the presence of osteoarthritis in the shoulder, the most common unseen culprit to the development of arthritis is chronic ligamentous laxity.

Shoulder Pain Main Page
With articles on Shoulder Arthritis, Frozen Shoulder, Prolotherapy and Shoulder Injuries,
Shoulder Osteoarthritis, Is There a Place for Arthroscopy?, Rotator Cuff Tendonitis - Impingement Syndrome, Rotator Cuff and Shoulder Pain, SUPRASPINATOUS Tendonosis
Shoulder Dislocation, Shoulder Separations, SLAP Lesions and Prolotherapy. SNAPPING SCAPULA SYNDROME

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Elbow - Wrist Pain
Elbow/Wrist Pain Main Page
Elbow Pain and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome 
Elbow Ligament Injury
Ulnar Collateral Ligament
Tennis Elbow, Golfer's Elbow Prolotherapy
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
The Use of Elbow Braces
Wrist Injury and Prolotherapy
Elbow Pain and Prolotherapy
Tennis Elbow, Golfer's Elbow "Tommy John Surgery"
Annular Ligament, The
Bilateral elbow tendinosis

Groin Pain
Hip, Groin Pain and Prolotherapy
Chronic groin pain is easily treated with Prolotherapy because there are multiple ligament laxities that cause groin pain. This diagnosis is accomplished by the physician having a listening ear and a strong thumb (TO PALPITATE THE PAINFUL AREA.). An interesting case will illustrate this point.

Pubic Symphysis Pain
Pain of the public symphysis area is often overlooked and blamed on abdominal muscles and adductor muscles which attach in this area with the diagnosis of abdominal muscle pull or adductor tendonitis.

Pubic Symphysis Laxity
Many people are subjected to hernia surgeries for chronic groin pain, which has nothing to do with a hernia! Patients come to us after a hernia surgery failed to "cure" them of their groin pain.

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Rib Pain
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Prolotherapy and Rib Pain
Articles include Thoracic Outlet Symptoms, Slipping Rib Syndrome, Thoracic Outlet Syndome, Snapping scapula syndrome

Prolotherapy A Great Alternative Treatment For People With Rib Pain
Most people don't realize that a person has cartilage in their sternal (breast bone). This cartilage is where the ribs connect to the sternum. For people with chronic musculoskeletal chest pain that is reproducible by pressing on the painful spot, most of the time this spot is where the ribs connect to the sternum. This area is called the costosternal junction. This joint is supported by ligaments. Common symptoms are chest pain or rib pain especially with coughing or doing the valsalva manuever (holding ones breath and pushing down like having a bowel movement).

The ribs connect on the backside to the vertebrae. This connection is called the costovertebral junction. This connection is held together by ligaments. When this connection is loose or weakened a person gets a subluxation where the rib moves from its normal alignment. This is also called slipping rib syndrome. Common symptoms are upper back pain which can radiate to the front and pain upon deep breathing or coughing. Prolotherapy to the weakened costovertebral junction is the treatment of choice. Prolotherapy will stimulate those areas to heal. Again typically three to six visits are needed for complete healing.

Ankle Pain
Most Ligament injuries do not totally heal. Even if the pain resolves, the ligament will not be as strong as it was prior to the injury. Since ligaments stabilize the joints, ligament injury then produces a loose joint. If the ligament never heals, chronic joint looseness or instability results.

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Twisted Ankle
Chronic Ankle Pain in a Female Athlete
Chronic Lateral Ankle Instability
Golf, Prolotherapy and Weak Ankles
Ankle Sprains
Ankle Fusion

Head and Neck Pain
Head and Neck Pain Links
Headaches Have a Neck Component
Cervical radiculopathy
Torticollis

Migraines and Prolotherapy

Prolotherapy, BOTOX®, and Headaches
Three Types of Headaches

TMJ Syndrome and Prolotherapy

Barre-Lieou Syndrome

PROLOTHERAPY AN ALTERNATIVE TO NECK SURGERY
Trigeminal neuralgia symptoms

C5 Vertebrae

Prolotherapy Tinnitus, Neck Stiffness

Prolotherapy, Neural Therapy and Diet Typing
BURNING MOUTH SYNDROME

Mal-rotation C1 vertebrae Prolotherapy
Numerous patients over the years have come in with what I term “C1 Syndrome.”  I am sure it is called something else in chiropractic and osteopathic literature, but regardless of the name, it is a condition caused by mal-rotation of the C1 vertebrae.

Ligament and Tendon Injury
Benign Congenital Hypermobility
An often overlooked but extremely important reason for chronic body pain is benign congenital hypermobility (BCH) Generalized joint hypermobility (loose joints in the entire body) due to ligamentous laxity occurs in about five percent of the population.

Ligament Injury and Referred Pain Patterns
The chief principle of Prolotherapy is that it treats the root cause of chronic pain and sports injuries—ligament and tendon weakness. The chief symptom of ligament and/or tendon injury is pain.

Ligament Injury
We think many athletes and people suffering from chronic pain do not heal their initial injuries because of improper treatment.

Connective Tissue Damage
There are many articles written on chronic pain though rarely is mention given to the main culprits for pain, the connective tissues of the spine and joints.

Tendinopathy
Prolotherapy for Tendinopathy
Tendinopathy, 95% of the time, means the person has tendinosis or a degenerated muscle origin or tendon. So what caused the tendon or muscle origin or insertion to become degenerated. Cortisone will degenerate these structures, as will anything that inhibits healing. Anti-inflammatories inhibit healing as does ice and rest. So anyone who does the RICE treatment, antiinflammtories or cortisone shots has done treatments that could cause a tendinosis.

Degenerative Joint Disease
Getting old has nothing to do with chronic pain. Chronic pain has it causes, yes, but they do not include advancing age! Pain is a signal that something is wrong, something has become injured or weakened.

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Arthritis
Prolotherapy and Arthritis
Osteoarthritis (or degenerative joint disease (DJD)) is the most common form of arthritis, affecting nearly the entire elderly population. Osteoarthritis is described as a generally progressive loss of articular cartilage accompanied by sclerosis of subchondral bone and, in many instances, the formation of subchondral bone cysts and osteophytes. The osteophytes are the overgrowth of bone that make joints look big and are the abnormalities that physicians see on x-ray showing arthritis in the joints. 

Osteoarthritis and Prolotherapy, Diet to Stop the Onset of Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Arthrofibrosis
Case History - multiple areas of pain. 

Prolotherapy
and Diet

Can Eating the Wrong Foods Cause You PAIN?
Early on in our practice, we found that some of our Prolotherapy patients were not healing like we expected them to heal. We found out that these patients’ diets were not appropriate for their specific body types.

The Anti-Inflammatory Diet
Inflammation is the process by which the body heals – particularly related to Caring Medical’s clinic, soft tissue injuries, including injuries to connective tissues, ligaments, and tendons.

Prolotherapy and Diabetes
We are sometimes asked if diabetic patients can receive Prolotherapy. The basis for the question is that standard Prolo solutions contain dextrose (glucose) as the major active ingredient, so should the diabetic refrain from using Prolo or does he need to take more medication to compensate for the treatment?

Prolotherapy and Diet
A 71 year old woman who came to Caring Medical all the way from New England because she heard about Prolotherapy in a newsletter that she receives.
 

Platelet Rich Plasma
Prolotherapy with Platelet Rich Plasma for
Labrum and Menisci Degeneration and/or Tears
I can’t remember the last time a patient of ours had surgery for a torn meniscus or labrum. I know I have sent a few patients for surgery in the past, but it has been a long time. Prolotherapy works very well for labrum (hip and shoulder) and menisci degeneration and tears and even more so when platelet rich plasma (PRP) is added. So what is PRP and how does it work?

Platelet Rich Plasma Case History
Platelet Rich Plasma Turns the Tide
Prolotherapy - Platelet Rich Plasma Solution
PRP and bilateral elbow tendinosis
Why Not Just Give PRP To Every Patient?

Pain Management
Cortisone Shots 
In my opinion, receiving a cortisone shot is one of the quickest ways to lose strength at the ligament-bone junction (fibro-osseous junction).

Cortisone Shots and Prolotherapy
Athletes are primarily given NSAIDS (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) and steroid injections because it is the standard of care.

Why Not Get A Cortisone Injection?
“My doctor wants to give me a cortisone shot. What do you think?” “Cortisone helped me before, why shouldn’t I get another shot?” “Is Prolotherapy going to hurt like a cortisone shot?"
 

Prolotherapy FAQ

Prolotherapy FAQ Main Page
10 Reasons Why Prolotherapy May Not Be Working
Why Prolotherapy Results May Not Be Seen Immediately
What Do You Mean the Prolotherapy Worked? I Have Pain!
Soreness After Prolotherapy
How To Optimize Response To Prolotherapy
A PROLOTHERAPY NIGHTMARE
How Much Inflammation Should Prolotherapy Create?
What's The Proof That The Prolotherapy Is Working?
What Could Be Wrong When Prolotherapy Doesn't Work?
Not All Prolotherapists Are Created Equal
Obesity and Prolotherapy
Natural Medicine Techniques For Prolotherapy
P2G
I Can't Have Injections!
Physical Therapy, Chiropractic, Massage therapy
Can Stress Stop Prolotherapy From Working?

MISCELLANEOUS
Prolotherapy and Fibromyalgia
Chronic Pain
Dysautonomic Polyneuropathy
What is the Effect of Aging on Healing?
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
Pseudogout
Hand and Finger Injuries
Myofascial Pain Syndrome
Overmanipulation Syndrome
Prolotherapy in the news
Sports Injuries in the Older Athlete

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Ross Hauser, M.D.
Dr. Hauser received his M.D. from the University of Illinois, Chicago; completed his residency at Loyola-Hines VA-Marianjoy Hospitals in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; and received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Hauser is one of the leading experts in the treatment of chronic pain and sports injuries with Prolotherapy. He, along with his wife Marion, have written seven books on the topic of Prolotherapy, a comprehensive book on the natural medicine approach to cancer, as well as a myriad of articles and newsletters for the general public. Read more

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