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Prolotherapy
Keeps Repetitive Injuries from Repeating
A computer worker who
develops a repetitive motion injury often first begins to feel weakness, pain,
and numbness in the area. Most of the time, the worker is given the diagnosis
of
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, which is a condition in which the median nerve is
entrapped in the
wrist. This is not the cause of most of these
symptoms; it is weakness and injury to the
tendons and
ligaments in the wrist.
We can say this because when these are structures are strengthened with
Prolotherapy, the symptoms completely remit. For further information on this
please read Prolo Your Pain Away! published by Beulah Land Press in
1998. The reason why people with numbness in the hand are quickly given the
diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome is because allopathic physicians believe
that only a nerve entrapment or injury can produce numbness. This is
completely false, because ligament and tendon weakness and injury can produce
this symptom. Ligaments are the structures that connect the bones together;
their function is to provide stability to the joints. Tendons connect the
muscles to the bones, and their function is to move the joints.
Most people do not
realize that these initial signals are warning signs of a potentially
career-ending injury if something is not done. People who are given the
diagnoses of epicondylitis (elbow
tendonitis), DeQuervain’s tendonitis
(wrist tendonitis), carpal tunnel syndrome,
tennis elbow, tendonitis,
wrist/elbow ligament sprain,
rotator cuff tendonitis (shoulder tendonitis),
and
cubital tunnel syndrome (ulnar nerve entrapment) are essentially being
told that they have repetitive motion injuries. Using the wrong treatment may
be detrimental to their health and careers.
For those who have
not heard the term repetitive motion injuries, you soon will. Many
technological workers who are reporting repetitive motion injuries have often
worked long hours, sometimes 60- or 70-hour weeks, in a competitive
environment, where the goal is to get products to market fast. The workers
often take few breaks and work on their computers even while at home. For
some, this means tens of thousands of keystrokes per day. The problem is
becoming increasingly prevalent so that now musculoskeletal disorders cause
about one million employees to miss work each year and costs the nation about
$50 billion annually in compensation costs, lost wages and decreased
productivity, according to the report.
As concerns mount,
high-tech firms such as Intel are joining in monthly ergonomic round tables to
discuss the problem. “Medical experts” have taken to calling some
repetitive motion injuries “Silicon Valley Syndrome” or “programmer’s
elbow”, and injured workers are forming support groups or creating their own
software programs to reduce ergonomic ailments.
Repetitive motion
injuries are caused when the soft tissue structures that are being used during
the motion do not have time to repair and eventually become degenerated, torn,
or stretched. For workers who use the computer for many hours, this primarily
involves the tendons and ligaments in the wrist, elbows, and shoulders. This
type of injury also occurs in other workers that use their hands and wrists
all day on the job including mechanics and carpenters. One should realize that
repetitive motion injuries are also a primary cause of sports related
injuries. Shoulders are injured in pitchers, knees in jumping sports such as
basketball and volleyball, wrists in bowlers, and elbows in
golfers.
Allopathic physicians
treat repetitive motion injuries primarily with rest, anti-inflammatories, and
ergonomic training. People who need to type for a living have a difficult time
resting, so this treatment is not an option for them. Anti-inflammatories are
"popped" into the mouths of millions of people everyday, unbeknownst
to them that the anti-inflammatories are hurting the body's ability to heal
the injury. The pain from the injury is the body’s attempt to heal the
injury because the body heals by
inflammation. In other words, treatments
that stop the normal healing inflammatory reaction will cause the ligament and
tendon injuries to continue to degenerate and weaken. There are other
treatments, including the
RICE treatment and
cortisone shots, that also
stop tendon and ligament healing. This concept is the primary reason why
workers continue to suffer from the pain and disability of repetitive motion
injuries; the injured tissues are not being repaired!
Tendon and ligament injuries, no matter how the
injury occurred, heal by inflammation. If you anti-inflame the injury, you are
anti-inflaming the injury to stay. The only traditional treatment that makes
sense is ergonomic training. This involves using proper posture while doing a
job. It also involves placing the computer screen at a comfortable angle and
elevating the wrists with wrist pads. The person would ideally sit in a chair
designed to support the curves in the lower back (lumbar lordosis). These changes have been shown to decrease the
incidence of work-related injuries. The best approach of all to cure repetitive motion injuries in the workplace and sports is Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy is a treatment that stimulates the body to heal the painful area. It involves the injection of primarily natural substances into the painful areas to stimulate that area of the body to get stronger and healthier. Prolotherapy stimulates the body to heal by inflammation. Prolotherapy to the wrist, elbow, and shoulders can strengthen such structures as the ligaments and tendons in these areas. Once the structure is completely strengthened, there is no more pain, numbness, or weakness in the area. Prolotherapy has been used successfully on thousands of patients to heal such conditions/symptoms as these:
Donna Resists Surgery Donna was a rising star in one of the fortune 500 companies here in the Chicagoland area. She was now on the verge of going on disability and having a carpal tunnel release surgery. “Doctor, I am miserable. I am not the same person I was a year ago. My hand is numb and hurts all the time. I don’t want the surgery because I know people who had it and now are worse then before.” After examining Donna’s wrist, it was clear that she did not have carpal tunnel syndrome, because her wrist was much wider than it was thick. In other words, she had a thin wrist and this kind of wrist almost never gets carpal tunnel syndrome. She did have the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome with her hand being numb, but her primary tenderness was in the elbows. This is where her wrist extensors attach, which provides the motion that is needed to type all day. “You bet I am ready for Prolotherapy,” she exclaimed. She received about 12 injections into her elbows. Yes, Prolotherapy to the elbows! Because both elbows were tender and she was starting to get symptoms in both hands, both were treated. After the first session, she was improved 25%. She was seen for three visits and is now back working full time. “Prolotherapy is a God send. I wish more people knew about it. It helped save my life and my career.”
John enjoys his job
and his workouts. John would work double duty every day. He worked on the
computer all day and lifted weights all night. He has a very good body to show
for it, but his shoulders were not doing well. “Doc, my shoulders are
killing me and lifting weights and typing all day is not helping.” John did
not like the advice he was given by his primary care doctor to stop working
out and consider switching jobs. “I like my job. I know there is a solution
to this. I hope the solution is Prolotherapy.” John received a total of six
Prolotherapy treatments to his shoulder and elbow. On the last visit, John was
especially generous by giving a box of Krispy Kremes to the office staff They
are delicious donuts, so people say! He had to be reminded that
Caring
Medical
is a natural medicine clinic that does not endorse donut eating! He told us
that these were "Krispy Kremes" and not just donuts. Best of all for
John, is that he can continue to deliver double duty.
Prolotherapy is the
treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain for the new millennium. The young
workers of today are not accepting the old edict that if something causes pain
that you must stop. The worker who went to college and worked his/her way up
the corporate ladder to have a good job that necessitates using the computer
for many hours per day is not just going to rest the area, pop some anti-inflammatories,
and get a cortisone shot. The intelligence that got them the good job is the
same thing that tells them that those treatments do not make sense. They do
nothing to repair or strengthen the areas of injury. The treatment that is
needed is Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy will proliferate (where the term
"prolo" comes from) the cells that grow the
collagen that make up
the ligaments and tendons. So keep on typing, or whatever you do on a repeated
basis because, yes, repetitive injuries can be cured and that cure is
Prolotherapy.
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