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Let me start by asking you some questions.
Think about the questions and give me a logical conclusion to these
questions.
What does it mean when people with
advanced
osteoarthritis
of the knee tell you that they have improved range of motion of the knee
after Prolotherapy?
What does it mean when people with
advanced
osteoarthritis of the knee tell you that the massive amount of
crunching in their knees has either declined significantly or completely
remitted after
Prolotherapy?
What does it mean when people with
advanced osteoarthritis of the knees tell you that they now can go up
and down stairs without pain and are exercising again?
What does it mean when you have before and
after x-rays of the knee and now the space between the tibia and femur
bones is bigger after
Prolotherapy?
What does it mean when a patient’s before
Prolotherapy x-rays of the knee show bone-on-bone, yet after Prolotherapy, the patient reports he is pain-free?
Given the totality of the above, what is
your conclusion? What if you were me and have seen this response over
and over again in most likely 1000 knees (over 15 years, I don’t know
the exact number, but am just estimating). What would you conclude?
Would you conclude that Prolotherapy regenerates
Cartilage? Why or why
not?
The bottom line is this:
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! I am confident that at least
half of these should get Prolotherapy instead. If the above doesn’t
convince you that
Prolotherapy regenerates cartilage, what will? Who is
going to fund a study that shows Prolotherapy regenerates cartilage when
the substances used are simple and not patentable? No one, get my point?
A patient came to us. He told us he had a
cadaver cartilage transplant in 2006. He was on crutches for 3 months
and had
physical therapy
for four more months, three times a week. Is he better? A little bit,
but what he really needed was Prolotherapy.
You see, one of the main determinants in whether cartilage transplant is
going to work is also how much
ligament injury is present. If
a person has an
Anterior cruciate ligament
injury and a cartilage problem, for the cartilage transplant to have any
hope of being successful, the ligament must also be repaired. Thus,
Prolotherapy is a great
alternative to cartilage transplant, in my
opinion. At the time of getting Prolotherapy, a person can get
Prolotherapy inside the joint to stimulate cartilage repair and at the
same time get Prolotherapy to the injured ligaments and
tendons.
You see, people often get surgical
procedures like
arthroscopy and knee replacements and other orthopedic
procedures with the hopes that they will get cured of their pain. Most
of the surgical procedures do not cure a person of their pain. They
often help for the first year or so, but then the pain recurs or changes
and the person is back on a lot of pain relievers. Prolotherapy, on the
other hand, stimulates the body to repair painful structures. It does so
without a person needing to be on crutches for several months and have
months and months of physical therapy.
Ideally, after Prolotherapy a person with
a lot of cartilage degeneration would start cycling at least 30 minute
per day. Cycling obviously helps with motion and is the number one
exercise a person can do to stimulate cartilage repair.
Cartilage is only nourished by movement. The movement moves the joint
fluid into the cartilage and the cartilage is nourished. This is why if
a person has back, neck,
shoulder, or
knee
arthritis, the number one
exercise they need is something that is moving the stiff area.
Knee
cartilage injuries need movement. The exercise that moves the knee the
most is cycling. It is the movement that helps, so resistance on the
bike should be minimized. You just need a cadence or revolutions per
minute of 90 or greater for least 30 minutes per day.
The take home point is this: If you are
contemplating a knee cartilage transplant, realize another option is
Prolotherapy. One can always get a knee cartilage transplant if
Prolotherapy doesn’t work, and likewise if the cartilage transplant
doesn’t work, you can always get Prolotherapy.
From a conservative approach, obviously
Prolotherapy injections,
(Watch where do
Prolotherapy injections go and do they hurt?)
nto and
around the knee is a lot less money, time, disability and results are a
lot quicker than cartilage transplant. Anyone researching cartilage
transplants knows that the technology is still evolving. It is changing
every year.
At Caring Medical the
technique of Prolotherapy is done the same way my predecessor Dr. Gustav
Hemwall
did it some 50 years ago. The injection technique is the same. The
solutions used are about the same. The results, of course, are the same.
For the person with knee degeneration, even with cartilage deficits, a
decrease in pain and clicking sensation in the joint, improvements in
range of motion and exercise/walking ability are typically seen.
Generally, the person needs four to ten visits of Prolotherapy. For very
advanced cases sometimes ten to fifteen monthly visits are needed. While
the Prolotherapy is stimulating repair, the person is working on other
aspects of their health by exercising, eating right, and taking
supplements. So at the end of the one year period (or however long it
takes) the person is the healthiest they have been in years! Getting
healthier that is what Prolotherapy and Natural Medicine is all about!
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