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Prolotherapy,
Botox®, and Headaches
Modern medicine has resorted to injecting a known toxin into the muscles of the
face/neck/head to help patients get rid of
headaches. Their headaches may
diminish but the paralysis caused by the botulism toxin weakens the muscles.
One
fact I can say for certain is that chronic headaches are not a botulism (BOTOX®)
deficiency. The botulinum toxin is very expensive, and provides only temporary
results.
At
best the toxin paralyzes the muscles for about three months, so the person gets
some symptomatic relief for that period, but then will require continued BOTOX®
injections to help maintain the pain relief.
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Prolotherapy to the jaw in TMJ
syndrome. X marks the spot. |
Chronic
muscular headaches are not due to the muscles being too tight. If this was the
case all one would have to do is get
massage or do some stretching of the
muscles of the neck and the headaches would be cured. Very seldom does massage
therapy cure someone of chronic headaches. In contrast,
Prolotherapy often cures
people of chronic headaches. Why is this the case?
Chronic
muscular headaches,
myofascial pain syndrome of the neck and head, and
fibromyalgia of the head and neck all have as part of their conditions chronic
muscle spasms. Why do muscles spasm ? They spasm because either they were
injured or they are trying to stabilize the joints that they move.
The
body desires stability. When the underlying neck
ligaments are stretched or
weakened, the overlying muscles go into spasm. When these ligaments are
strengthened by
Prolotherapy, the chronic muscle spasms stop because the muscles
no longer have to stabilize the underlying joints. Hopefully, in the future
people will understand that instead of asking for poison (BOTOX®) for their
headaches they will ask for Prolo.
Botox®
is a registered trademark of ALLERGEN, INC.
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