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Prolotherapy and Knee Surgery Options
Prolotherapy
&
the Surgical Repaired Knee
During an initial consultation, I explain to patients that
Prolotherapy
stimulates the body to repair painful areas. and
can help many conditions, including a knee that has been
through surgery.
Never Have Knee
Surgery Based on an MRI
Recently I saw an athlete who had been on a world championship national
volleyball team years ago, and remains active in the sport.
He complained about an unstable left knee since a minor mishap several
months ago while playing basketball, and he also had a history of
arthroscopic surgery on that same knee.
Healing Knee
Injuries Without Surgery
Prolotherapy, in my opinion, is the best way to avoid surgery! It can promote the repair of torn
cruciate ligaments, torn medial collateral ligaments, injured
meniscus and
chondromalacia.
KNEE ARTHROSCOPY FOR
OSTEOARTHRITIS OF THE KNEE
Recently I looked
over several articles in newspapers and a nice clinical review article,
all explaining how arthroscopy for knee arthritis is on the rise despite
the lack of evidence that it helps get rid of pain. Most of the knee
patients we see at Caring Medical have had knee arthroscopy and from what
I can tell it accelerates the arthritic process. We feel a better
approach would be to repair the arthritic process with Prolotherapy.
Surgical Alternatives for the Knee Ligament
The complications of orthopedic surgery on knee
ligaments are significant and
frequent. The ligament grafts are profoundly weakened about eight weeks after
surgery. At this time their strength is about 10 percent of its initial
strength! It is only 50 percent of initial strength after one year. In two to
three years the grafts are at their strongest, and then, less than their initial
strength.(1) Compare this to one study where ligament strength was measured
after a six-week period of doing
Prolotherapy
on knee ligaments.
CARTILAGE
TRANSPLANT SURGERY
Over my years of treating many knees, I have seen hundreds upon hundreds
of people get Prolotherapy instead of
knee replacement surgery
or
arthroscopic
surgery. Do you realize that the amount of people in the United States
who get arthroscopic surgery and/or knee replacement and other knee
surgeries is about 1 million? Yes, one million people per year get
knee surgeries in the United States!
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