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Surgical Alternatives to Knee Ligament Surgery
In another study of patients followed for two to
seven years after surgery, seven percent of the grafts failed and another 26
percent had only "fair" results. (6)
Even more impressive were the results of a double-blind
placebo-controlled study of
dextrose Prolotherapy for knee
osteoarthritis with
and without ACL laxity, performed by
K. Dean Reeves, M.D. The study participants
had six months or more of pain, along with either grade 2 or more joint
narrowing or grade 2 or more osteophytic change in any knee compartment. A total
of 38 knees were completely void of
cartilage, radiographically, in at least one
compartment. The study involved the injection of a dextrose
Prolotherapy
solution, bimonthly, comparing it to a control solution into 111 knees in 68
patients with osteoarthritis. The results showed that at 12 months, after six
injections, the dextrose-treated knees improved in pain (44% decrease), swelling
complaints (63% decrease), knee buckling frequency (85% decrease), and in
flexion range (14 degree increase). Analysis of blinded radiographic readings of
0- and 12-month films revealed stability of all radiographic variables with two
variables improving with statistical significance (lateral patellofemoral
cartilage thickness and distal femur width in millimeter, both of which signify
cartilage growth). Knees with ACL laxity showed statistically significant
improvements in pain, swelling, joint flexion, and joint laxity. Amazingly,
eight out of the 13 dextrose-treated knees with ACL laxity were no longer lax at
the conclusion of one year. (8) These results were with only one
Prolotherapy injections into the knee joints at each session. In other words, the ACL ligament
attachments were not treated separately, which is routinely done during Prolotherapy for ACL laxity. Imagine what the results would be like if the ACL
itself was treated! Yes, the athlete has a choice-Prolotherapy or surgery.
1. Tria, A. Ligaments of the Knee. New York, NY:
Churchill Livingstone Inc., 1995, p. 167. |
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