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ANTIDEPRESSANT
MEDICATION FOR CHRONIC PAIN
My Pinched Nerve
I knew what to do for my pinched nerve in my neck and it
wasn’t to go to a doctor who would have given me
anti-healing medications and probably eventually given me an
anti-depressant! Hey,
you would be depressed too
if the doctor wasn’t helping your pain, you can’t train
for your sport,
and you had
to cancel a half ironman race! Well
I still had to cancel the half ironman race,
but I only lost about three weeks worth of training. This
a.m. I biked for 1 hour 15 minutes and ran for 30 minutes. All at heart rate between 140-150. I am back. I am back
to training for Ironman Lake Placid. What does this have to
do with taking anti-depressants?
Sorry, I just am so excited to be
feeling
better and
I want the same for you!
Doctors give
anti-depressants to the
chronic pain sufferer for two
reasons. The most obvious reason is that
often they are
depressed. The second reason is they help
patients
sleep
better and this may lessen their pain.
While these are both noble reasons to prescribe
these medications,
the main reason the person is depressed is because of the
pain. It isn’t that they are depressed and then have pain. I am telling you if the doctor you are going to is not
helping resolve the pain and is
just giving various medications,
including anti-depressants,
I say run, don’t walk,
to a
Prolotherapy doctor!
Over the course
of the last four years we have been compiling data that we
are hopeful to get published and I am telling you the
overwhelming evidence of the research is that even if the
medical doctors have told the person with pain that there is
no other treatment options for their pain
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Prolotherapy
will work for them. It is not a guarantee,
but in all of our studies that we have done,
this has been the case. Yes,
on the
lower back,
neck, hip,
shoulder,
TMJ, ankle,
elbow,
wrist, and other body parts showed this. We
examined
our
data on clients who were told that there were
no other
treatment options
for their pain, and they still experienced
unbelievably great results with
Prolotherapy.
Prolotherapy
helps strengthen and regenerate
damaged, weakened tissue.
Prolotherapy injections
(Watch where do
Prolotherapy injections go and do they hurt?)
stimulate
the body to repair painful areas. The substances injected
get the
immune system
activated to
where
ultimately fibroblasts proliferate (where the word
Prolo or
to grow comes
from). Fibroblasts are the cells that make the collagen
which make up
ligaments
and
tendons. Joint osteoarthritis
forms when the ligaments (which hold the bones together)
are
weakened. Now the unstable joints wants stability and
that’s why the body overgrows bone. The overgrown bone is
stabilizing the joint. Thus, the cause of degenerated
joints is ligament injury. The treatment for ligament
injury is
Prolotherapy.
Prolotherapy is
typically given approximately
every four
weeks. Generally three to six visits are needed to resolve
most chronic pain. Sometimes
Diet Typing is ordered. This
is a process to find out what foods will best optimize a
person’s
physiology. Read about
Hauser
Diet Typing
So there you
have it. When the doctor goes for the prescription pad to
give you an antidepressant,
I say run, don’t walk,
to get a
Prolotherapy evaluation.
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