Prolotherapy for Chronic Pain and Sports Medicine
Ross Hauser, M.D. Oak Park, Illinois
Prolotherapy Appointment Information
Caring Medical and Rehabilitation Services
Oak Park IL 708-848-7789
 

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Nov 4
How Much Inflammation Should There Be?

It is quite common for someone to ask me or my staff; “How much inflammation should I have with Prolotherapy?” There are actually two answers to this. The first one is obvious. You need enough inflammation to heal. Someone can heal after Prolotherapy with only a minimal inflammatory discomfort and someone else may have the whole area very tender, stiff and inflamed.

So one can not always go by the amount of stiffness or
swelling after the Prolotherapy to determine if that person will heal or not. If someone is not improving and not getting stiffness or inflammation, the Prolotherapist can increase the amount of inflammation by changing the solution but there is a more important point here.

Not getting a good inflammatory reaction even with the most gentle basic
Prolotherapy solution is an indicator that the persons healing ability is severely compromised. What the person needs to do is work on their overall health!!!!

I can not emphasize the last point enough. If a person just has the Prolotherapist ‘increase’ the strength of the solution without correcting their healing deficit, the odds are the person will be back in the Prolotherapists office.

When healing is optimal Prolotherapy works best, often with the more gentle basic solutions.

Read the related article How To Optimize Response To Prolotherapy

EAT WELL
For the person wanting to maximize the healing after Prolotherapy, it is essential to eat a healthy diet.

The person getting a sugar load several times a day is walking around in an immunosuppressed state. The immune system is what proliferates the tissue after Prolotherapy. So stop eating sugar and junk food and start eating healthy. It’s all part of the program. You need the building blocks of good nutrition to build new tissue.

Caring Medical, through clinical experience, has developed a simple blood testing method called Diet Typing that can help you determine which diet is best for your particular body type.
 

These articles maybe helpful
What Could Be Wrong When Prolotherapy Doesn't Work?
How Nutrition Can Heal Your Chronic Pain
How Much Inflammation

 

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.

Diet, Migraines and Prolotherapy: A Case History
History: Michelle is a 56 year old female who came to Caring Medical in January of 2008 with complaints of
migraines and neck pain that have been occurring for 25 years.

Diet and Chronic Pain
We recently had a patient come in for
Prolotherapy injections for upper back pain, low back pain, and hip pain. She had had a nightmare experience with surgery and was left with so much pain that she had to quit her job and spent most days in bed.

Diet Helps Healing
When Jean was having trouble healing her back with Prolotherapy, we recommended Diet Typing to ensure that her body is able to support the immune response that Prolotherapy was stimulating.

 

OCTOBER 27

Estradiol Inhibits Healing
One of our jobs at Caring Medical is to help our patients have the best chance to heal from their pain. Prolotherapy is the treatment of choice in our opinion for lax (injured) tendons and ligament which cause pain.

There are plenty of things a person can do to aid healing.  A good diet and proper exercise are a given. Most people intuitively know why they are important, and we can educate folks in the particulars. Not so apparent is the effect that hormones can have on the healing response.

 

If you were to sit in our waiting room for a day, or in most other pain clinics for that matter, you would see that there are significantly more women in them than men.
 

Acidic blood and chronic pain
We utilize a simple diagnostic testing procedure known as Diet Typing to determine a person's under lying physiology. A significant portion of the testing involves testing the blood pH level. The pH level, together with a glucose tolerance test and some other testing will help us determine which diet you need to follow for your individual body type. Ensuring that our patients follow the appropriate diet helps in their overall healing, especially in conjunction with Prolotherapy.

A significant number of chronic pain patients show a lower than normal blood plasma pH
. A person with low blood pH has what is termed acid blood. Acid blood is typically dark in color due to low oxygen content. Oxygen is the food that allows the body to extract and store energy from the blood. A low oxygen content in the blood compromises healing capabilities.

The treatment for acid blood is to consume foods and supplements which neutralize the blood pH. This is accomplished by consuming items which are alkaline and by reducing the intake of acidic items. Caffeine, sugar, wheat, citrus fruits, soda pop, and potatoes should be avoided, whereas protein and vegetables should be the majority of the meal. Supplements such as green algae or alfalfa also help neutralize acidic blood.

Nuts, seeds, brown rice, or soy products are good sources of protein if a vegetarian diet is preferred. People with acid blood are typically carbohydrate addicts and consume very little protein. Protein is needed in the diet because
collagen, which makes up ligaments and tendons, is the most abundant protein in the body. Collagen is the building block for ligament and tendon tissue. A healthy diet with adequate amounts of protein for soft tissue growth is essential for heathy ligament and tendon injuries.

Another interesting finding is that our testing consistently reveals that
chronic pain patients suffer from chronic dehydration. Chronic dehydration produces a reduction in shock absorbing capabilities of the intervertebral discs and articular cartilage, placing additional stress on the ligaments to stabilize the joints. The end result is ligament laxity, injury, and resultant chronic pain. It is very important for the person in chronic pain to drink six to eight glasses of purified water per day.

OCTOBER 20
Case History:
Chest and Rib Pain
in the Martial Artist

James Heugh, a 19 year-old mixed martial arts fighter from Ontario, Canada, first came to Caring Medical in late December 2008, complaining of severe pain around the right side of his sternum. As you can imagine, the very nature of his chosen sport resulted in numerous strikes to the chest, not only in competitive matches, but also during many sparring sessions. This combat sport combines the hand blows of boxing, the kicks of karate, and the throws of wrestling and judo. James remembers sometime in mid 2008 receiving a “knee” to the chest. A few months later as he was throwing a heavier opponent from atop of him, he felt some movement around his sternum. From that point, most of the ribs in his right chest began to “pop” out of place with certain motions. His pain increased as the injuries mounted, and only inactivity relieved his pain, which was not an option for a mixed martial artist. After allowing three and a half months to rest and take joint repairing supplements, along with anti-inflammatory medications, James was still in pain and not competing. An internet search led him to Prolotherapy and Caring Medical. Read the article


Prolozone®
Some of our readers have emailed us asking us our thoughts on Prolozone
®.

In regard to using Ozone as the proliferant in Prolotherapy, here are my thoughts: Few doctors in the United States have treated as many patients as I have with Ozone therapy.

I learned Ozone therapy from the then-president of the German Ozone Society (main organization utilizing ozone therapy at the time), Gerd Wasser, M.D. Besides teaching me major autohemotherapy, direct ozone gas insufflations, he taught me to inject ozone therapy into joints. I myself received Ozone therapy into my knee joint to try it and have utilized it on some of my patients.

Most folks know that I was taught Prolotherapy by
Gustav Hemwall, M.D., the then (early 90’s) most experienced (or one of the most experienced) Prolotherapists in the world. As such, I had and continue to have remarkable results with Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy. Some of the remarkable results we have published in scientific papers that are available at www.journalofprolotherapy.com.

As I was able to compare my own personal experience with Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy to Prolozone, I chose Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy. This does not mean that Prolozone does not work. I respect the doctors who use it and look forward to seeing their results published using this technique, as myself and others using Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy have done.

I would like to make one more remark. What I try to do with Prolotherapy is simulate the mechanisms in which the body heals itself. When a person injures soft tissues like ligaments, sugar is released from inside the cells and fat is released as cell membranes are broken (during the trauma or injury).

These simple substances then trigger the immune system to increase growth factors at the wound site. The solutions that are utilized with Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy, such as dextrose, are not only safe, but when properly administered do a great job. They simulate the mechanisms of how the body heals itself. To make solutions stronger, additives such as cod liver extracts, human growth hormone, and platelet rich plasma again simulate what normally occurs in the human body with healing an injury.

So from an efficacy standpoint, as well as a safety standpoint, Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy has stood the test of time.

OCTOBER 13
Back Pain After Surgery
Is Prolotherapy Still an Option?

Many people only become aware of Prolotherapy after they have undergone a surgical procedure for
back pain. Although the pain may not be as severe as it was before the surgery, most people continue to experience significant back pain after surgery. Why? Because the back surgery involved removing supporting structures, such as a lamina, facet, or disc, thus weakening surrounding segments.

Prolotherapy injections to the weakened segments in the lumbar vertebrae often result in definitive pain relief in post-surgery pain syndromes. Back pain is commonly due to several factors and surgery may have eliminated only one. It is possible, for example, to have back pain from a lumbar herniated disc and a sacroiliac joint problem. Surgery may address the herniated disc problem but not the sacroiliac problem. In this example, Prolotherapy injections to the sacroiliac joint would cure the chronic pain problem.

Unfortunately, it is common for a person to have lumbar spine surgery for a  sciatica complaint diagnosed from an abnormality” on an
MRI scan. The  sciatica” complaint was a simple ligament problem in the sacroiliac joint and the MRI scan finding was not clinically relevant—it had nothing to do with the pain problem. For the majority of people who experience pain radiating down the leg, even in cases where numbness is present, the cause of the problem is not a pinched nerve but sacroiliac ligament weakness.

C1 VERTEBRAE
Numerous patients over the years have come in with what I term “C1 Syndrome,”  a condition caused by mal-rotation of the C1 vertebrae. The first
cervical vertebra is extremely important since your head sits on it. It is responsible along with C2 for the rotation of the skull.  C1 is the reason we can turn our heads to the right or the left. In C1 syndrome, there is excessive movement of C1 so that it stays either rotated to the right or to the left.  

Over the years I have seen numerous cases of C1 Syndrome; some of them severe. There was one young lady that could not even stand up because of dizziness from C1 Syndrome.  I was treating her in the office with no fluoroscopy but eventually she needed Prolotherapy under fluoroscopy with strong solutions to rid her of the problem.  She went from totally disabled to totally fine with Prolotherapy to C1.

Currently in the United States there are thousands of people who get periodic episodes of severe nausea and dizziness.  Many of these people do get adequate relief with chiropractic care.  For those who continually have C1 go out, Prolotherapy, in my opinion, is most likely the best solution because C1 Syndrome can be cured with Prolotherapy.  If someone sees a
chiropractor for the condition, it is helpful to ask him/her which way specifically it goes out, so the Prolotherapist can treat it accordingly.  For the above patient, C1 was rotating counterclockwise and Prolotherapy to counteract this rotation was given.
 

Sacroiliac Pain
After Six Prolotherapy Sessions

Q. At what point-after, say, 6+ Prolotherapy treatments by an experienced Prolotherapist does one begin to consider SI (sacroiliac) joint fixation/fusion? I am seeing some progress in terms of frequency of recurrent sublixation of the joint, but am still in a considerable amount of pain. I know that experiences are different, but at what point do we say that this is as good as it can get with prolo?
 

A. Prolotherapy is extremely successful at curing sacroiliac pain and subluxations. Generally when I see a patient that has gone somewhere else and had a lot of Prolotherapy and the condition has not responded it is because of one of these factors:

1. The solution used was not strong enough.

2. The treatments were not thorough enough.

3. The person is doing something in between visits to loosen the sacroiliac joint again (the most obvious one would be manipulations).

Having said all that I believe I have sent 2-3 people (out of say 1,000+) with sacroiliac problems for fusion.

 

OCTOBER 5
Prolotherapy, Diet, and Hormones
A Case History


Living with chronic pain day in and day out can cause discouragement and hopelessness in many people. Fortunately for the people who come to see us at Caring Medical, we can put some hope back into their life. While many people benefit from
Prolotherapy alone, there are some that need to correct some physiological imbalances in order to reach a pain-free life. Below is the story of Brittany, a young mother who had been battling chronic pain since the birth of her child. With the help of Prolotherapy, the Hauser Diet, natural hormone replacement therapy, and supplements, she was able to reach significant improvement in just a few short months.

Brittany came to see us after two and a half years of pain and therapies that provided no relief. It was two and a half years ago that she gave birth to her first child and pain in her
low back, groin, and hips started immediately after childbirth.

She had an intense labor, delivering a 9 pound baby after 14 hours of labor ending in a C-section, but Brittany had always been very athletic and healthy and expected to recover and get back to her active lifestyle. Six months later, however, she was still in pain and experiencing chronic fatigue that made it hard to get through each day. Read more


I have a torn meniscus and my doctors suggested I have arthroscopy. I wanted to know how Prolotherapy works and what is the recovery time and is Prolotherapy a permanent cure?

A. For people with meniscal and
cartilage issues, generally more than the average three to six visits will be needed for complete healing of the knee, but it IS possible to achieve some significant healing and relief. At each session, you would receive from 20-30 injections to strengthen the meniscus and cartilage, as well as the surrounding ligaments. Treatments are generally spaced four weeks apart. But if you are in a hurry, treatments can be given every one to two weeks. The wonderful part of Prolotherapy is that you can exercise while you are undergoing the treatment. For meniscal injuries this would typically involve Bosu Ball, cycling and swimming. No running generally.

The results we see with Prolotherapy are usually curative (although not everyone will get these desired results.) Once an individual has completed the treatments as recommended by the physician, the area does not need further treatment unless there is a reinjury. Also, after each session there are usually no limitations. You can return to work as usual. Of course, one would not want to continue any activity that causes excessive pain.

PROLOTHERAPY CAN PUT CURVE BACK INTO NECKS
A patient came in with severe muscle spasms in the neck. Her neck x-rays, which were taken by a chiropractor showed a straightening of the normal lordotic curve of the neck. She had received 120 manipulations to her neck and countless sessions of physical therapy. She probably spent $10,000 of her own money on previous care for her neck pain.

The patient's history was interesting in that she appeared to have muscle tension headaches initially. By the time she came to Caring Medical she was assessed as having Overmanipulation Syndrome. This conditions is actually caused by too much
chiropractic manipulation. She now had severe ligament laxity in her neck with compensatory muscle spasm, resulting in the 'straight' neck.

The patient received six
Prolotherapy sessions over the course of six months. She had a completely recovery of her neck pain. After the Prolotherapy, neck x-rays were taken which showed her lordotic curve had returned. The reason for this is a cessation of the cervical muscle spasms because of the repair in the ligaments that took place with Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy by tightening and repairing the ligaments, the muscles could now relax because the vertebral joints were stable.

September 30
MRI's NOCEBO EFFECT

You have all heard of the placebo effect, such as when a person is given a sugar pill but believes it is a high blood pressure pill and their blood pressure goes down.

Now you need to know about placebo’s cousin, the nocebo effect. 

This occurs when a doctor shows a person their MRI scan and says the MRI looks really bad that there is a lot of arthritis.  The doctor then expresses surprise that the person can even walk, the MRI is that bad! 

Well you know what happens next-the persons pain gets worse!   The nocebo effect is when a doctor tells a person  that their MRI is terrible and it is crushing a nerve and the person should be feeling terrible-and soon they are. 

The problem is is that the MRI may show something that isn’t true, sometime this falsehood can lead the person to have more pain and even worse medical procedures like surgeries that are unwarranted. 

My job and the job of other Prolotherapists is to recognize the nocebo effect and tell folks that their nerves are fine.  They have no nerve problem as evidenced by their history and exam and that their referral pain is from a ligament.


Often I’ll have a client in my office talking to me, moving around fine, yes they are in pain, but when I tell a joke, the laugh.  They definitely aren’t in agony and sometimes they have no pain.  So let’s think about it.  If your nerve is pinched like the MRI says – wouldn’t it be pinched all the time?   If this was true do you think you would have a little pain or a lot?  Would it be there all the time or some of the time?  You see if you have pain that comes and goes and often times is a 2-3 on a scale of 0 to 10 then the odds of you or that person having a pinch nerve are very, very little.  Most likely they have ligament injury and guess what?  Ligament injuries in the spine do not show up on MRI!  So if you have a ligament injury causing your pain then most likely your MRI will give you a false positive.

Chronic Pain and Brain Atrophy

I suspected it, but now it has been proven: Chronic Pain Causes the Brain to Shrink - up to 11%. Research has shown that the brain can shrink (atrophy) up to 11% with chronic pain, like the pain someone experiences with conditions such as chronic
low back pain or Fibromyalgia. In other words, the brain can age 10-20 years if pain is not dealt with.

The researchers have found that not only have scans and magnetic imagery documented the loss of gray matter, a number of other studies complement these findings in that the brains of chronic pain patients demonstrate altered neurochemistry and central nervous system processing of input signals such as odors, taste, heat, emotions, and touch. Studies show that chronic pain patients do not process external stimuli in a normal fashion. So what can a chronic pain patient do for this? Obviously, the most important factor is treating the pain with something that can help cure the pain!

Pain Medications and Prolotherapy
Anti-inflammatory medicine, like Motrin, Advil, aspirin, Clinoril, Volteran, prednisone, and cortisone, all inhibit the healing process of soft tissues. The long term detrimental effects far outweigh the temporary positive effect of decreased pain. Aspirin does have a beneficial effect on the heart, but a detrimental effect on soft tissue healing. When a ligament or tendon is injured, prostaglandins are released which initiate vasodilation in non-injured blood vessels. This enables healthy blood vessels to increase blood flow and immune cell flow to the injured area to begin the repair process. The use of anti-inflammatories inhibits the release of prostaglandins thus ultimately decreasing the blood flow to the injured area.

The body heals by inflammation. If you continue to stay on
anti-inflammatories, you will eventually, most likely, end up with chronic body pain. By taking an anti-inflammatory medication, you are suppressing not only the Prolotherapy, but your body’s repair mechanisms.  Soon you will have chronic pain in other body parts because you are suppressing healing in those areas.

September 23
Prolotherapy and the Older Patient

Pain is not a normal part of the aging process. Chronic pain always has a cause and that cause is not old age syndrome. Chronic pain is almost always due to
ligament weakness.

Because most bodily functions decline with age, the ability to heal an injury and the immune system response are slower. Older people may respond slower and because of this slower healing more Prolotherapy sessions may be needed. Teenagers, because they are in the growing phase of life, rarely need more than one Prolotherapy treatment to eliminate chronic pain. Someone in their 90's will heal slower because of their age and often report more than the typical four Prolotherapy sessions to cure their chronic pain.

What If I'm A Diabetic
As most of you know I have been doing Prolotherapy for many years now, having started in January 1993. In that time  I have treated people with brittle diabetes, those on pumps, as well as many other diabetics (on oral pills and just one insulin/day). 

So what happens when these get Prolotherapy?  Usually, their pain goes away.  Obesity, diabetes, and other medical conditions can slow the effects of Prolotherapy.  If this occurs instead of the person needing three to six visits of Prolotherapy they may need six to ten visits. 

Over the course of the last 16 years of doing thousands of Prolotherapy sessions on diabetics we have found it very well tolerated.  Most of the diabetics tell us that it raises their blood sugar only a mild amount (like 10-30 points). This is also for a short time (perhaps a few hours).

For the person with the complicated medical condition, all I can say is that it would be best to get a comprehensive natural medicine evaluation and treatment.  The healthier you are the better you will heal from the Prolotherapy.   You can still get Prolotherapy alone, but your healing may be slower.

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?

What is PRP?
Platelets play a central role in blood clotting and wound healing. Tissue repair begins with clot formation and platelet degranulation, which release the growth factors necessary for wound repair. Platelet-derived growth factors are biologically active substances that enhance tissue repair mechanisms. After platelets are activated at a wound site, proteins are released that directly and indirectly influence virtually all aspects of the wound healing cascade. Studies have shown a direct correlation between the platelet concentration and the level of secretory proteins, as well as the amount of proliferation involved in the wound healing.

In basic terms, PRP involves the application of concentrated platelets, which release a supra-maximal quantity of growth factors which stimulate recovery in non-healing injuries. PRP causes a mass influx of growth factors, such as platelet-derived growth factor, transforming growth factor and others, which exert their effects of fibroblasts causing proliferation and thereby accelerating the regeneration of injured tissues. Specifically PRP enhances the fibroblastic events involved in tissue healing including chemotaxis, proliferation of cells, proteosynthesis, reparation, extracellular matrix deposition, and the remodeling of tissues. Bottom line here is that tissues can heal faster with PRP! Read more

September 16
MRI SAYS HERNIATED DISC

Does Caring Medical order MRIs? Almost never. In my opinion, most MRI findings have nothing to do with why the person has pain and is thus the reason for most ‘failed surgery syndromes.’ Almost all people even after surgery are not pain free. Surgery for pain in the best case scenario should be done only after all of the conservative treatments have been tried and failed. This includes Prolotherapy!

Degenerated joints, including degenerated or
herniated discs, signify ligament laxity. Ligament laxity or vertebral instabilities are the reason that discs become degenerated.

A herniated disc by definition means the nucleus pulposis (gelatin part of the disc) has herniated through the annulus fibrosis, which is ligamentous tissue.

Caring Medical has an 80%+ success rate of helping people with acute and chronic disc herniations and
degenerated discs resolve their pain and disability without surgery. For a person in relatively good shape and immune function (good healing ability) the likelihood of success is even higher. Prolotherapy by stimulating the ligaments to heal, helps the vertebral segment become stabilized and thus eliminates the reason for the degenerated disc.

Diet and Pain
We had a patient come in for
Prolotherapy injections for upper back pain, low back pain, and hip pain. She had had a nightmare experience with surgery and was left with so much pain that she had to quit her job and spent most days in bed. Obviously her life was falling apart. After a few prolotherapy treatments she began to feel some relief, unfortunately she would need quite a few more, and since she lived on the other side of the country, traveling to see us so often was getting difficult.

Diet to accelerate healing
The patient decided to have our
Hauser Diet Typing test so that she could isolate on foods that would promote healing.

At her first nutrition consultation our nutritionist explained that Diet typing revealed that she needed a high protein diet to support her blood sugars.

The patient told our nutritionist that she was a “sugar freak” and loved sweet tea, juice, sweetened cereal, and sweets. She was not happy about her high protein low carb
Hauser Otter Diet. But when we explained that the Otter Diet could help with healing, she decided to do it.

After one month on the Otter Diet, our patient set up a phone consultation to go over the diet. The patent reported that her pain would come and go, but it was definitely improving, In fact, the week before she had been able to clean the house, do some gardening, take some photographs, and even host a Bar-B-Q for some of her friends.

After reviewing her food diary it was clear that she had made some significant changes to her diet to decrease her sugar and add protein and she was seeing a positive response to the diet.

 

September 9, 2009
Diet Helps Healing

When Jean was having trouble healing her back with Prolotherapy, we recommended Diet Typing to ensure that her body is able to support the immune response that Prolotherapy was stimulating. She was about 70% better than when she had started Prolotherapy treatments, but she was ready to get to 100% pain free living. Read more

Prolotherapy and Massage, Chiropractic, and Physical Therapy

Let me start by saying that Prolotherapy is often used in conjunction with physical therapy, chiropractic care (excluding high velocity manipulation) and massage therapy. When physical therapy, chiropractic care and massage therapy is no longer resolving the problem, it is then that Prolotherapy is a great alternative treatment. There are certain conditions that physical therapy, chiropractic care and massage therapy often have partial success in but don’t cure the problem. Here are a few that I can think of off hand: 

Ligament sprains
Tendon strains
Tendonitis
Joint Instability
Degenerated Joint
Degenerated Discs
Tendon Tears
Joint Subluxations

No one doubts that physical therapy can help a person get on a great exercise program to correct muscle imbalance problem. Likewise physical therapists and massage therapists can do wonders to get rid of muscle spasms, as can chiropractic care. But what is one to do if the joint continues to hurt, be swollen, or muscles continue to go into spasms. Well, if it were me I would seek out the care of a Prolotherapist.

The diagnoses above are very commonly seen in our office. When a ligament is injured, joints move too much. That is why so many of us have a crunching sound in our joints. It means the ligaments are loose or weakened (there are other causes of course). When the ligaments can no longer stabilize the joint or vertebrae, the muscles go into spasms. Recurrent muscle spasms almost always point to an underlying ligament problem. When the muscles can no longer stabilize the unstable segments, you get an overgrowth of bone. That overgrowth of bone is called osteo- or degenerative arthritis. Degenerative arthritis is just the body's response to stabilize an unstable area. So you see that ligament injury is typically the cause of degenerative arthritis. Since Prolotherapy injections help with ligament repair it typically helps relieve the pain of degenerative joints or spines. Generally people need three to six visits. The injections are typically given every four to six weeks.

The best treatment I know of to help a joint or ligament to become healthier is Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy is very effective in my opinion to help resolve the pain of the conditions mentioned above. When physical therapy, chiropractic care or massage therapy does work then the person should consider Prolotherapy as a great alternative.

September 2, 2009
End Stage Hip Degeneration

In my experience, one of the main determinants in whether Prolotherapy
will help a potential patient with a degenerated joint is how much range of motion he/she has compared to normal. What I find in my experience is if a patient has little hip range of motion, especially internal or external rotation, then they may need a hip replacement. 

However and surprisingly, I typically see 50% or greater normal motion in the hip in the average person
who has been told that a
hip replacement is the only option.

Yes,
I may see some limited range of motion because of their arthritis, but much of the motion is there. In these instances, Prolotherapy works very well. By this I mean that the patient will achieve improved strength in the leg, as well as more motion. Along with this, of course, comes a diminished level of pain and use of
pain medications. The vast majority are very happy and don't end up needing hip replacements.

If someone has had six Prolotherapy treatments and still has a problem
, they either need to continue to get the 'booster' Prolotherapy treatments, get a
second opinion by another Prolotherapist, or get a hip replacement.

L-5 disc fusion
I had a L-5 disc fusion. I have nerve damage to my S1 nerve to the left leg. After 10 months of physical therapy they thought I was really for work. Three weeks into it my right leg started have pain going down from my hip, for weeks my lower back started tighten up, soon the pain was a consistent 24/7. I have been to the doctors expressing my concerns. I changed physical therapist and the new one seems to think it is my SI. two months later I woke up and could not move, at first I thought I was paralyzed, my lower back muscle was so tight and the pain was so awful. When I push with my up body outward the pain travels down to my right hip. I was wondering if you could please help me.

A. It does seem that you have a sacroiliac issue. When you fuse L5-SI this means movement has to come from somewhere. The somewhere is often the sacroiliac joints which become lax. The treatment we have found most helpful at Caring Medical in Oak Park for Sacroiliac injuries/weaknesses is Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy by strengthening the
sacroiliac ligaments causes not only the low back pain to go away but also the 'radicular' or 'sciatic' type pains to subside. 
 

Degenerative Disc Disease
Most people who come to me for low back or neck pain truly believe that it is their degenerative disc disease that is causing the problem. Since everyone has degenerative disc disease by the age of 40, this can’t be the cause of the pain, since almost everyone at the age of the 40 has no neck or back pain. Did you know that the most common reason that discs show up as degenerated on MRI’s and CT Scans is dehydration? The discs are very sensitive to dehydration. Since most of us don’t drink enough water, is it any wonder that so many people show up as having degenerative disc disease?

Why do you think so many people get disc surgery and have continued pain? Why do so many people get IDET (frying of the disc) and still have pain? The reason is the disc is not causing the pain problem the person is having. Sure, some people have degenerative discs that cause them pain, but the majority of people who have these diagnoses, have pain that is coming from another structure. What other structure?

Besides the nerve, the most painful part of the musculoskeletal system is probably where the muscles, ligaments, and tendons attach to the bone. The periosteum (outside of the bone) is very sensitive. This is where all these structures attach to the bone. So if a person has a ligament or tendon injury, it is almost always where it attaches to the bone. This can be amazingly painful. When a ligament is stretched, injured, or torn, the joint becomes unstable, since the ligaments provide stability for structures.

Why do people with low back pain have muscle spasms? Not because the discs are degenerated, because the discs do not provide stability to the lower back, the ligaments do. The muscles spasm in order to stabilize the back after a ligament injury. If you have neck or low back pain that is accompanied by muscle spasms, then think ligament injury. Since you are thinking ligament injury, then what treatment should you get to stimulate ligament repair? Prolotherapy!

August 25, 2009
Weak Immunity and Prolotherapy

Margaret, a 29 year old woman, came to our office with a chief complaint of severe back pain radiating down her left leg, with tingling in the toes of her left foot, lasting four months. She tried chiropractic care, acupuncture, and massage with no resolution of her MRI diagnosed herniated disc. Margaret did not know how she herniated her disc, which is not unusual, it is very characteristic of a person with a systemic connective tissue problem. (A defect in connective tissue healing)

Margaret was unable to perform any activity, let alone exercise. Even walking, standing, or sitting in the same place for a long period of time caused an increase in her pain. Naproxen, prescribed by her primary physician, was the only thing that gave her some relief. Remember now, Margaret was only 29 years old and was taking Naproxen, Advil, and Tylenol every day. To try and relieve the pain when it was really bad, her doctor also gave her glucocorticosteroids. These medications, including prednisone, are known stimulators of connective tissue breakdown.

On her first visit she received a complete Prolotherapy treatment to the involved ligaments in her lower back. All anti-inflammatories were discontinued, including the Advil and Naproxen, which have a significant detrimental effect on connective tissue. She was given Ultram, which is a good pain reliever with no anti-inflammatory or anti-healing effects. She was given nutritional supplements to enhance connective tissue growth and help relieve the pain.

Margaret came back for her second visit to the office, two months later. She reported that her low back pain was better with no pain radiating down her leg. The only pain medication she was taking was Tylenol. She received the same Prolotherapy treatment as the first visit and was told to increase her activities as tolerated. We recommended a procedure called Hauser Diet Typing to help her figure out how to better nourish her body and improve the systemic connective tissue deficiency. Margaret turned out to be a fast oxidizer of food. Her current condition was significantly catabolic (causing breakdown of connective tissue) for her body. She was eating too many simple carbohydrates including breads, grains, sweets, and fruits. She was placed on more protein and vegetables and as she was not absorbing the protein she was eating very well, so she was given a digestive enzyme to take with all meals.

Four months after her initial visit, Margaret stated that her results were dramatic. She had lost ten pounds and was now sleeping through the night. She reported no tenderness in the lower back. She was totally asymptomatic and discharged from our care. Her new nutritional regime could be expected to help her improve every other aspect of her health.
 

More about Diet and Inflammation
Are you confused about “inflammation” as it relates to your health? We are frequently asked why we say “inflammation is good.” Well, that one word, “inflammation” can be good or bad completely depending on the situation. The foods you eat can be causing “bad” inflammation and not allowing you to heal, or the foods you eat can work in sync with Prolotherapy to rebuild strong tissue to the injured, painful area.
Read more

 

August 18, 2009
Whiplash
Where Do You Treat?
The areas to be treated with Prolotherapy are determined by palpatory examination of the posterior head and neck. The accuracy in diagnosing the actual pain-producing area is excellent, because the physician recreates the patient's pain by palpating the neck and posterior head carefully until a positive jump sign is elicited. This gives the patient and the physician confidence that the pain-producing structure is between the physician's thumb and the underlying bone.
Read Article


Pinched Nerve in the Neck
About once every two weeks a patient comes in worried because they believe they have a pinched nerve in the neck. Typically they have had an MRI which some some degenerative arthritis and degenerated discs in the neck and they have tingling in the arm and hand. So is this cervical radiculopathy or is this just a referral ligament pain pattern from the upper thoracic area. How do you tell? Read Article
 

Diet and Chronic Pain

Mark, came to see us for shoulder pain, having been diagnosed with a labral tear, he was told that shoulder surgery was his only option, instead he chose Prolotherapy for his shoulder.

His pain was such that he could no longer workout and common daily activities like opening a door or a jar caused pain. He also complained of fatigue and told us he was working with a natural medicine doctor in his home town because he had low testosterone levels. Mark was constantly traveling for work, so the pain would often slow him down.

 

At Mark’s next visit he went to our lab to have Diet Typing done before his Prolotherapy treatment. His results showed that he was a slow oxidizer and had acidic blood pH. His slow oxidation showed that he had vegetarian physiology and would need to follow the Monkey Diet. Read Article

August 11, 2009
How Many Shots?

While the notion of getting a lot of injections into your body may not be appealing, surely you want every area of your body treated that is causing pain?  Is it any wonder when a person goes to a Prolotherapy doctor and gets two or three shots why they don’t get completely better? 

We all know conceptually if you injure a structure in a joint that over time that injury is going to affect all the structures of the joint.  Most people come to a Prolotherapist after they have had the pain for several years.  What may have started out as a simple ligament sprain, after 3-6 years is now a total joint problem.  All the structures of the joint and around the joint (or at least the majority of them) need to be treated with Prolotherapy to completely alleviate the pain! 

It is common for me to see patients for the first time who talk about the one shot Prolotherapy they received at another office.  While in the most technical sense, this might be Prolotherapy, (because they used a Prolotherapy solution), it may not be effective. To be effective, the Prolotherapist must do the following:

  • Stimulate all the structures that are injured to heal.

  • Use enough solution per structure to induce a sufficient healing reaction.

  • Use a strong enough solution per structure to induce a sufficient healing reaction.

  • Help the person obtain maximum health if their health is not good.

  • Assist the person in getting off medications, supplements, or traditional hormones (like birth control pills) that inhibit healing.

  • Assist the person to get their lifestyle and relationships such that they help, rather than hinder, progress.

There is obviously more to it than the above, but the main point here is that in the history of Caring Medical, we have never had one patient ever leave the office disappointed that they didn’t get enough shots! 

Prolotherapy Not Working? Don't Stop The Inflammation
This means you should not be taking any anti-inflammatories or narcotic medications, which inhibit the immune system and inflammation. Tylenol, acetaminophen, muscle relaxers, and Ultram are okay. These help decrease pain, but do not inhibit the inflammatory response.  Herbs, enzymes and vitamins are also very helpful, but avoid ginger as this inhibits prostaglandin synthesis which is needed for proper inflammation.


A Case of The Wrong Diet
Lauren, came to Caring Medical with complaints of multiple areas of joint pain, specifically knees and shoulders, fatigue, trouble sleeping and mood swings.

Her pain hindered her from any type of exercise and she had gained 20 pounds in a little over a year. On a scale of 1-10 her energy is averaged around 5, and her sleep averaged about 5-6 hours a night. Her main goals were to:
decrease body pain; decrease knee pain for activity; get back to hiking, cycling; get back to work as a physical therapist, be able to maintain physical work; and to have active social life like she used to.Read article

 

08/04/2009 Prolotherapy and Rolfing
07/24/2009 P2G

07/01/2009 Sacroiliac pain after Prolotherapy
06/24/2009
Prolotherapy on a knee that has already been to surgery
06/10/2009 Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
06/03/2009 "Painless" Whole Body Prolotherapy
06/03/2009 Pinched Nerve in the Neck
06/03/2009 Can Prolotherapy Patients Still Visit The Chiropractor?
05/27/2009 Nutrition, Prolotherapy, Chronic Pain
05/27/2009 More Reasons Prolotherapy
05/13/2009 Platelet Rich Plasma Prolotherapy
05/06/2009 Is This Prolotherapy?
04/15/2009 Snapping scapula syndrome
04/08/2009 Prolotherapy to the back video
04/01/2009 Prolotherapy Research A Retrospective Study on Dextrose Prolotherapy for Unresolved Knee Pain
04/01/2009 The Regeneration of Articular Cartilage with Prolotherapy
04/01/2009 Diet, Prolotherapy and Arthritis
04/01/2009
Five Medical Conditions and Prolotherapy
03/25/2009
Other factors can play a role in helping someone become pain free
03/25/2009 tinnitus
03/18/2009 I have been diagnosed with inflammation of the ischial tuberosity and bursa.
03/11/2009
MUSCLE WEAKNESS AND PROLOTHERAPY
03/03/2009 JJ, a 46 year old female competitive league golfer
03/03/2009 Maximizing Prolotherapy Response
02/25/2009
Tendon Damage from FLUOROQUINOLONES ANTIBIOTICS
02/25/2009 Burning Mouth Syndrome
02/25/2009
Diet Helps Healing
02/25/2009
Quick Treatment Gets Hospital Medical Biller Back to Work - Tessie
02/18/2009
Medical Biller Back to Work
02/05/09
The Hauser Diet® Natural Medicine Program
01/28/09 A Story of Prolotherapy and Spinal Fusion Therapy
01/21/09
Cervical Radiculopthy
01/21/09
PRP Case Study
01/14/09 JoAnn-Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
01/07/09 Prolotherapy: A case history Prolotherapy - Lisa with Back Pain
12/31/2008 Prolotherapy, Diet, Migraines - Michelle 56
12/24/2008 JJ, a 46 year old female competitive league golfer
12/17/2008 Diet, Hormones and Prolotherapy (TMJ)
12/17/2008 Food, Inflammation, Healing
12/10/2008 Prolotherapy for C1
12/10/2008 Headaches, Neck Stiffness, Ringing In The Ears
12/03/08 Alkaline and Acidic Blood pH How Does It Effect Prolotherapy?
11/19/08 Knee Pain I am 83 years old and have had knee pain for many years
11/14/08 LIGAMENT INJURY
11/12/08
PRP Case Study
11/05/08 JJ, a 46 year old female competitive league golfer
11/05/08 The Opera Singer's Jaw Pain Prolotherapy
11/05/08 Does It Affect Hormone Levels and Other Laboratory tests?
10/22/08 Anti-Inflammatory In The Prolotherapy Solution?
10/22/08 C1 vertebrae
10/22/08 Prolotherapy and Muscle Wasting?
10/15/08 Tailbone pain
10/15/08 Cervical Radiculopthy
10/01/08 Natural Blood Thinners
09/24/08 Long Term Study Confirmation! Do Not Rely on MRI Findings for Knee Pain Etiology!
09/19/08 Three Cervical Radiculopthy Prolotherapy Treatments
09/17/08 Special Announcements
09/03/08 Estradiol Inhibits Healing and is Carcinogenic: Both Reasons Women Should Not Be on Birth Control Pills  
09/03/08 Why it is Crucial for the Chronic Pain Patient to Stop Using Narcotics – ASAP! Prolotherapy  
08/20/08 THE DOCTOR SAID THERE IS NOTHING MORE THEY CAN DO TO GET RID OF YOUR PAIN
08/13/08 How Soon Should Prolotherapy Work? How Many Times Do I Need To Come Back?
08/06/08 Headaches, Neck Stiffness, Ringing In The Ears
08/06/08 Knee Pain I am 83 years old and have had knee pain for many years
07/30/08 Golfers Knee
07/30/08 The Opera Singer's Jaw Pain Prolotherapy
07/30/08 Does It Affect Hormone Levels and Other Laboratory tests? Prolotherapy
07/25/08 Physical therapy increases pain? Prolotherapy  
07/25/08 Prolotherapy After Knee Replacement?
07/23/08 Prolotherapy Not Working? Don't Stop The Inflammation Prolotherapy  
07/18/08 Reasons Why Prolotherapy May Not Work Prolotherapy  
07/16/08 Prolotherapy and Radiculopathy
07/11/08 Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy Case History
07/09/08 Prolotherapy and Diet Prolotherapy  
07/04/08 Prolotherapy and Nerve Blocks Prolotherapy  
07/02/08 Common Questions About Sports Injuries and Prolotherapy Prolotherapy  
07/02/08 What About Calcium Deposits? Prolotherapy  
06/25/08 PROLOTHERAPY: A Great Alternative Treatment For Full Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears Prolotherapy
06/20/08 Prolotherapy and Muscle Wasting?
06/04/08 Cervical Radiculopthy
05/28/08 PROLOTHERAPY FOR DISCOGENIC PAIN AND ANNULAR TEARS
05/21/08 What would I do if I was diagnosed with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy?
05/21/08 Pyriformis Syndrome
04/30/08THE DOCTOR SAID THERE IS NOTHING MORE THEY CAN DO TO GET RID OF YOUR PAIN
04/23/08 Prolotherapy Not Working? 
04/23/08 Does It Affect Hormone Levels and Other Laboratory tests?

May 7

Prolotherapy and Muscle Wasting?
Prolotherapy with Platelet Rich Plasma Case History:


April 16
Overmanipulation Syndrome
Tendinopathy in Sports

March 26
WHEN CHIROPRACTIC MANIPULATION STOPS WORKING
Stretching

March 12
PROLOTHERAPY AFTER BACK SURGERY
The HS Athlete and PROLO

March 5
Platelet Rich Plasma Turns the Tide
Prolotherapy gets Triathlete with Spondylolisthesis back to racing

February 28
PROLOTHERAPY FOR THE SERIOUS ATHLETE WITH SERIOUS INJURIES

February 20
Prolotherapy is a Better Option than a $9000 Cervical Epidural!
Top Ten Sports Injuries I See in Triathletes; and what are the results with Prolotherapy

February 5, 2008
How Soon Should Prolotherapy Work? How Many Times Do I Need To Come Back?

Flat Foot Pain and Posterior Tibial Tendon Injuries

January 23, 2008
Determining Ligament Laxity in the Lower Back

January 16, 2008
Cervical Radiculopthy

January 2, 2007
Prolotherapy and Muscle Wasting?

December 26, 2007
Low Back Pain Resolved With Prolotherapy - Even when taking immunosuppressive drugs!
Prolotherapy: A great alternative treatment for trigeminal neuralgia symptoms


December 19, 2007
Spinal Disc Problems
What About Calcium Deposits?
Can Prolotherapy Help Knee Degeneration?

December 12, 2007
PROLOTHERAPY: AN ALTERNATIVE TO CARTILAGE TRANSPLANT SURGERY
Prolotherapy: AN Alternative Treatment for Patients Diagnosed with Tarlov Cysts
Chronic Groin Pain and Prolotherapy

December 5, 2007
Prolotherapy, Tendinosis Study

November 21, 2007
Prolotherapy and Lumbar Spinal Fusion
Platelet Rich Plasma Prolotherapy
Can Eating the Wrong Foods Cause You PAIN?

November 14, 2007
The Cost of Prolotherapy
Pyriformis Syndrome

November 7, 2007
Neck Pain Observational Study
Nerve Block Questions

October 31, 2007

Tolerating The Injections!

October 24, 2007

Is it Sciatica

Prolotherapy and Shoulder Separation

October 17, 2007
Numbness
October 10, 2007
Soreness after Prolotherapy
How Soon Should Prolotherapy Work? How Many Times Do I Need To Come Back?

October 3, 2007

September 26, 2007
Prolotherapy Following Hip Replacement

September 19, 2007
Do You Use Synvisc?
I Have Frozen Shoulder

September 5, 2007
Tendinopathy
Calcium Deposits


August 29, 2007
Headaches
Groin Pain, Hip Pain

August 15, 2007
Neck Disc Herniation

August 8, 2007
Prolotherapy and Muscle Wasting?
Pain in the Right Posterior Thoracic Region Case History

August 1, 2007
Why Prolotherapy Results May Not Be Seen Immediately

July 26, 2007
10 Tips to Determine if You Are A Good Prolotherapy Candidate

July 19, 2007
MORE PROOF THAT DEXTROSE PROTHERAPY WORKS:

July 12, 2007
Is Your Prolotherapy Not Working: You Could Be the Cause!
Prolotherapy for Acute Injury

July 5, 2007
Top Five Medical Conditions You Believe You Have…But DON’T!
How To Optimize Response To Prolotherapy

June 27, 2007
Prolotherapy with Platelet Rich Plasma Solution
Prolotherapy: The Best Alternative to Open Bankart Surgery

June 20, 2007
Prolotherapy as an Alternative To Surgery in These Ten Conditions
My Top Ten Reasons For Not Getting A Cortisone Shot
How Soon Should Prolotherapy Work? How Many Times Do I Need To Come Back?

June 6, 2007
SNAPPING SCAPULA SYNDROME
Prolotherapy Risks

May 30, 2007
Headaches
Groin Pain, Hip Pain,and Prolotherapy

Questions
May 23, 2007
Questions about Spinal Fusion
Articles related to the C-5

May 16, 2007
What Do You Mean You Are Not Ordering an MRI?
Can Stress Stop Prolotherapy From Working?

May 9, 2007
10 Reasons Why Prolotherapy May Not Be Working For You
Prolotherapy for Bursitis

May 2, 2007

April 25, 2007
Q. Can Prolotherapy help radiculopathy
Two questions about radiculopathy

Prolotherapy for Bursitis

April 18, 2007
Prolotherapy after hip replacement

Knee Pain I am 83 years old and have had knee pain for many years
Bulging Discs


April 11, 2007
Celebrex
Never Have Knee Surgery Based on an MRI Diagnosis
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE NOT ORDERING AN MRI?
How Soon Should Prolotherapy Work? How Many Times Do I Need To Come Back?

April 4, 2007
Pain Medications and Hypertension
Neck Pain Blogs

March 28, 2007
I Can't Have Injections!

March 21, 2007
Do You Use Cortisone? My Top Ten Reasons For Not Getting A Cortisone Shot"
How Soon Should Prolotherapy Work? How Many Times Do I Need To Come Back?

March 14, 2007
Pain in the Right Posterior Thoracic Region
The Problem with Getting Properly Diagnosed: SI strain

How To Optimize Response To Prolotherapy

March 7, 2007
Prolotherapy Risks
Undoing The Twist: Treatment of Ankle Sprains


February 28, 2007
Neck Pain
Groin Pain, Hip Pain,and Prolotherapy

February 21, 2007
Signs and Symptoms to Know That You Are A Candidate For Prolotherapy. Part 1
Should You Just Keep Taking Pain Medications?
Flat Feet

February 7, 2007

Inevitable Hip Replacement or Prolotherapy?
Posterior Tibial Tendinitis


January 31, 2007

Failed Back Surgery Prolotherapy
Prolotherapy, Idet, Epiduroscopy, Surgery


January 24, 2007
How To Optimize Response To Prolotherapy

January 17, 2007
NEW SPINAL FUSION BLOG|
Prolotherapy for Bursitis
Prolotherapy and Trigger Points

January 10, 2007
Articles related to the C-5
Back Pain-What Is The Diagnosis?
Not all chiropractors are created equal!

January 3, 2007

Can People With Diabetes Get Prolotherapy?
My Top Ten Reasons For Not Getting A Cortisone Shot
How Soon Should Prolotherapy Work? How Many Times Do I Need To Come Back?


2006
December 27, 2006
How To Optimize Response To Prolotherapy
Osteoarthritis - right knee

December 13, 2006
Neck Pain Blog


December 6, 2006
The Problem with Getting Properly Diagnosed SI strain
How To Optimize Response To Prolotherapy
Prolotherapy and Trigger Points

November 29, 2006
MENISCUS BLOG/Knee Pain/Surgery Blog
ARTHROFIBROSIS AND PROLOTHERAPY
Your SCANS Says Abnormality, But Is That The Cause of Pain?

November 22, 2006
Should You Just Keep Taking Pain Medications?
Prolotherapy for Bursitis
November 15, 2006
Knee Cap Patella Disorders & Prolotherapy
Foot Pain Blog

November 8, 2006
Can Stress Stop Prolotherapy From Working?
Posterior Tibial Tendinitis
Flat Feet


November 1, 2006
Failed Back Surgery Prolotherapy
Prolotherapy, Idet, Epiduroscopy, Surgery
Soreness After Prolotherapy


October 25, 2006
How To Optimize Response To Prolotherapy

October 18, 2006
Articles related to the C-5
Back Pain-What Is The Diagnosis?
Not all chiropractors are created equal!

October 11, 2006
Questions from Readers
Visit the back pain blog

October 4, 2006
My Top Ten Reasons For Not Getting A Cortisone Shot
 

September 27, 2006
Questions

Q. A not so well known cause of injury and chronic pain is the positioning of the body during surgery.  Read more
Q. I have had pubic/groin pain on my left side for 9 months now. Read more
Groin Pain Intensified During Monthly Period
  Read more
Q. I have so many weird and traveling places of pain in my low back, buttocks and sitdown bones that I wonder how I could be diagnosed accurately. Read more
Q. I have a lot of scar tissue in my knee, (adhesions), I am concerned that Prolotherapy, along with building good tissue will also build scar tissue.
Q.  Prolotherapy will not interfere with adhesion or scar tissue. The Prolotherapy solution is injected at the fibro-osseous junction to stimulate production of the collagen matrix which does not create or promote adhesion formation in the body.


September 20, 2006
Neck Pain Blog
Neck Disk Herniation
Cervical Stenosis
Never Have Knee Surgery Based on an MRI Diagnosis
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE NOT ORDERING AN MRI?
Prolotherapy and Shoulder Separation
Pain in both shoulders

September 13, 2006
The Problem with Getting Properly Diagnosed: SI strain
How To Optimize Response To Prolotherapy
Groin Pain Intensified During Monthly Period

September 6, 2006
Tailbone Pain Blogs
Back Pain Questions

August 30, 2006

MENISCUS BLOG/Knee Pain/Surgery Blog
ARTHROFIBROSIS AND PROLOTHERAPY
Your SCANS Says Abnormality, But Is That The Cause of Pain?

August 23, 2006
Headaches

August 16, 2006
New Foot Pain Blog
Can Stress Stop Prolotherapy From Working?

August 9, 2006

Prolotherapy for Bursitis

Prolotherapy and Trigger Points
SACROILIAC BLOG updated

August 2, 2006
Shoulder Blogs
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE NOT ORDERING AN MRI?
Prolotherapy After Back Surgery

July 26, 2006
Inflammation: The Key to Healing

Loose Ligaments: The Key to Solving Back Pain

July 19, 2006
Articles related to the C-5
Prolotherapy and Baker's Cyst
Back Pain-What Is The Diagnosis?
Not all chiropractors are created equal!

July 12, 2006

More Q & A at the Back Pain blog
A Story of Prolotherapy and Spinal Fusion Therapy
The Importance of Sleep in Prolotherapy

July 5, 2006
Can I see a Chiropractor?
Depo-Medrol: Another Good Reason to Choose Prolotherapy
Why Do I Have Chronic Pain?

June 29, 2006

My Top Ten Reasons For Not Getting A Cortisone Shot
 

How Soon Should Prolotherapy Work? How Many Times Do I Need To Come Back?
Soreness After Prolotherapy

June 21, 2006

Connective Tissue Damage
Q. Can Positioning During Surgery Cause Chronic Groin Pain? A. Read blog
Q. Can Prolotherapy Help Radiculopathy Pain?


June 14, 2006

acetabular labral tears

shoulder separation
Tailbone Pain Blogs

June 7, 2006
Knee Injury and Cortisone
Facet Syndrome
The Achilles Tendon & Heel Spurs

May 31, 2006
Back Pain Questions
Q. My doctor doesn’t know about Prolotherapy. He wants me to have surgery. What should I do? Read More
Q. I’m considering disc surgery. What is your opinion? Read more
Q.
I am in a lot of pain and needed to escalate my pain medication to narcotic strength. Read more
Q.
My doctor suggested an “epidural” shot for my pain. Is this a good idea? Read more
Q.
Can I see a Chiropractor? Read more
Q.
Prolotherapy Helped! Now, Which Exercises Can I Do? Read more


May 24, 2006
How Much Inflammation Should Prolotherapy Create?

Nutrition, Prolotherapy, Chronic Pain
Prolotherapy and Pseudogout

May 17, 2006
RADICULOPATHY BLOG

Never Have Knee Surgery Based on an MRI Diagnosis
Headaches

May 10, 2006
PROLOTHERAPY FOR POST-FRACTURE REHAB AND PAIN
ARTHROFIBROSIS AND PROLOTHERAPY
Your SCANS Says Abnormality, But Is That The Cause of Pain?

May 3, 2006
Prolotherapy for Bursitis

Prolotherapy and Trigger Points
The Cruciate Ligaments of the Knee: ACL, MCL and PCL

April 26, 2006
ACUTE MENISCAL TEAR
Loose Ligaments: The Key to Solving Back Pain

April 19, 2006
What is the Effect of Age on Healing?
The Importance of Sleep in Prolotherapy
Arthrofibrosis and Prolotherapy

April 12, 2006
Shoulder Blogs

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE NOT ORDERING AN MRI?
Prolotherapy After Back Surgery

April 5, 2006
Prolotherapy and Baker's Cyst
Back Pain-What Is The Diagnosis?
Not all chiropractors are created equal!

March 29, 2006
MENISCUS BLOG/Knee Pain/Surgery Blog Updated
SACROILIAC BLOG updated
Prolotherapy A Great Alternative Treatment For People With Rib Pain

March 22, 2006
A Story of Prolotherapy and Spinal Fusion Therapy
Rotator Cuff and Shoulder Pain

Healing Knee Injuries Without Surgery

March 15, 2006
Depo-Medrol: Another Good Reason to Choose Prolotherapy
Why Do I Have Chronic Pain?
Think Twice About Surgery for Back Pain

March 8, 2006
Prolotherapy and Shoulder Injuries
Ischial Tuberosity / Hip and Buttocks Pain
Meniscal Injury and Prolotherapy

March 1, 2006
Soreness After Prolotherapy

February 22, 2006
How Does Prolotherapy Help Radiculopathy?
Connective Tissue Damage
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

February 15
, 2006
Obesity and Prolotherapy
Hip Replacement and Prolotherapy
Hip, Groin Pain and Prolotherapy


February 8, 2006
The Top Ten Conditions That Receive Prolotherapy and Why
Facet Syndrome

February 1
, 2006
Prolotherapy for Bursitis

Prolotherapy and Trigger Points
The Cruciate Ligaments of the Knee: ACL, MCL and PCL

January 25, 2006
Connective Tissue Damage

Knee Injury and Cortisone
Ankle Sprains

January 18, 2006
The Achilles Tendon & Heel Spurs
Arthrofibrosis and Prolotherapy
Read New Posts At Our SACROILIAC BLOG
Alkaline and Acidic Blood pH How Does It Effect Prolotherapy?

January 11, 2006
Read our new back pain blog!
Q. My doctor doesn’t know about Prolotherapy.
Q. I’m considering disc surgery. What is your opinion?
Q. My doctor suggested an “epidural” shot for my pain. Is this a good idea?
Q. What are the signs of spinal stenosis?
Q. Can I see a Chiropractor?
Q. Is it necessary to have an X-ray or imaging study to do Prolotherapy?
Wrist Injuries and Prolotherapy

January 4, 2006
Loose Ligaments: The Key to Solving Back Pain
Failed Back Surgery and Prolotherapy
Rest is an Ineffective Treatment for Acute Lumbar Disc Herniation

2005
December 28, 2005
Sacroiliac Pain
Headaches
Arthrofibrosis and Prolotherapy
Prolotherapy: An Alternative To Neck Surgery

December 21, 2005
Common Acute Shoulder Injuries
What is the Effect of Age on Healing?
The Importance of Sleep in Prolotherapy
Failed Back Surgery and Prolotherapy


December 14, 2005
POSTING AT OUR HIP PAIN BLOG
hip_pain_blog.htm
How Nutrition Can Heal Your Chronic Pain
Never Have Knee Surgery Based on an MRI Diagnosis
How Much Do Prolotherapy Injections Hurt?

November 30, 2005
Prolotherapy and Baker's Cyst
Back Pain-What Is The Diagnosis?
Not all chiropractors are created equal!
Ankle Sprains

December 7, 2005
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE NOT ORDERING AN MRI?
Facet Syndrome

Prolotherapy After Back Surgery


November 23, 2005
Think Twice About Surgery for Back Pain
Prolotherapy a Great Alternative Treatment for Pseudogout
Prolotherapy for Post-Fracture and Rehab Pain

November 16, 2005
Prolotherapy A Great Alternative Treatment For People With Rib Pain

November 9, 2005
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Why Did this Happen to Me? How Chronic Pain Occurs

November 1, 2005
Prolotherapy Is a Great Alternative to Surgery For Radiculopathy

A Prolotherapy Nightmare
Facet Syndrome

October 26, 2005
The Top Ten Conditions That Receive Prolotherapy and Why
Facet Syndrome
Hip Replacement and Prolotherapy
Hip, Groin Pain and Prolotherapy

October 19, 2005
Ankle Sprains

Hip Pain and Hip Replacement
The Cruciate Ligaments of the Knee: ACL, MCL and PCL

October 12, 2005
Artificial Spinal Disk May Open New Era in Making Back Pain Worse!
The Importance of Sleep in Prolotherapy
Failed Back Surgery and Prolotherapy


October 5, 2005
Alkaline and Acidic Blood pH How Does It Effect Prolotherapy?
What Do Some Patients Do When Prolotherapy Doesn't Work?
A Difficult Case For Prolotherapy

September 28, 2005
Sacroiliac Pain
Headaches
Arthrofibrosis and Prolotherapy

September 21, 2005
What is the Effect of Age on Healing?
The Importance of Sleep in Prolotherapy
Failed Back Surgery and Prolotherapy


September 14, 2005
How Nutrition Can Heal Your Chronic Pain
Never Have Knee Surgery Based on an MRI Diagnosis
How Much Do Prolotherapy Injections Hurt?

September 7, 2005
Frequently Asked Questions
What's The Proof That The Prolotherapy Is Working?
What Do You Mean the Prolotherapy Worked? I Still Have Pain!
How To Optimize Response To Prolotherapy
Medical Research and Prolotherapy
Why has your doctor never heard of Prolotherapy!

August 31, 2005
Doctors Who Won't "Treat" Pain
Why has your doctor never heard of Prolotherapy!
Myofascial Pain Syndrome

August 24, 2005
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE NOT ORDERING AN MRI?
Facet Syndrome
Prolotherapy After Back Surgery


August 17, 2005
Xyrem Helps Chronic Pain Sufferers Sleep
Back Pain-What Is The Diagnosis?
Low Back Pain and Prolotherapy

August 10, 2005
Not all chiropractors are created equal!

August 3, 2005
New Help for Ringing in the Ears!” Says Recent Women’s Magazine Article
Facet Syndrome
Prolotherapy After Back Surgery

July 27, 2005
PROLOTHERAPY: A GREAT ALTERNATIVE TO NEURONTIN AND ELAVIL FOR SLEEP 
WHY DID THIS HAPPEN TO ME? HOW CHRONIC PAIN OCCURS
Rest is an Ineffective Treatment for Acute Lumbar DisC Herniation

July 20, 2005
Ankle Sprains
Hip Pain and Hip Replacement
The Cruciate Ligaments of the Knee: ACL, MCL and PCL

July 13, 2005
Supraspinatous Tendinosis
Ligament Injury

July 6, 2005
What Do You Mean The Prolotherapy Worked? I Still Have Pain!
Rest is an Ineffective Treatment for Acute Lumbar Disk Herniation
The Top Conditions That Receive Prolotherapy and Why

June 29, 2005
Artificial Spinal Disk May Open New Era in Making Back Pain Worse!
The Importance of Sleep in Prolotherapy
Failed Back Surgery and Prolotherapy


June 22, 2005
The Mayo Clinic Performs Prolotherapy
Prolotherapy and Baker's Cyst
Ehlers-Danlos Syndorme (EDS) / Fibromyalgia

June 15, 2005
What Do Some Patients Do When Prolotherapy Doesn't Work?

A Difficult Case For Prolotherapy
A History of Prolotherapy


June 8, 2005
Ankle Sprains
Hip Pain and Hip Replacement
The Cruciate Ligaments of the Knee: ACL, MCL and PCL

June 1, 2005
Prolotherapy and Fibromyalgia

Sports This Week
Buttock Pain and High Hamstring Tendinopathy
Pitching Injuries - Rotator Cuff Tendonitis
Post-Concussion Syndrome

May 25, 2005

Myofascial Pain Syndrome
Why has your doctor never heard of Prolotherapy!
Dysautonomic Polyneuropathy Helped by Prolotherapy

May 18, 2005
How To Optimize Response To Prolotherapy
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE NOT ORDERING AN MRI?

May 11, 2005
Xyrem Helps Chronic Pain Sufferers Sleep

Back Pain-What Is The Diagnosis?
Low Back Pain and Prolotherapy

May 4, 2005
Facet Syndrome
Prolotherapy After Back Surgery
The History of Prolotherapy


April 27, 2005
The Top Conditions That Receive Prolotherapy and Why

Prolotherapy for Post-Fracture and Rehab Pain
Arthrofibrosis and Prolotherapy

April 20, 2005
Ligament Injury

April 13, 2005
Radiofrequency Denervation
Headaches
Rest is an Ineffective Treatment for Acute Lumbar Disk Herniation

April 6, 2005
Hip Pain and Hip Replacement
The Cruciate Ligaments of the Knee: ACL, MCL and PCL
A Difficult Case - Chronic Pain / Fibromyalgia

March 30, 2005

Prolotherapy: a Great Alternative to Neurontin and Elavil for Sleep
The Importance of Sleep in Prolotherapy
Failed Back Surgery and Prolotherapy


March 23, 2005

Mayo Clinic  Promotes Prolotherapy
Prolotherapy and Baker's Cyst
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) / Fibromyalgia

March 16, 2005
Prolotherapy: A Difficult Case
Why I Do Prolotherapy
What Do Some Patients Do When Prolotherapy Doesn't Work? They Come To Caring Medical!

 

 

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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.

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