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.
 

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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.

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.
 

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.

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

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
 

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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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