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Joint Pain Options
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Ankle
pain
treatments
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Arthritis
treatment
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Back Pain treatment
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Elbow pain
treatment
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Foot pain treatment
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Groin pain
treatment
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Head-Neck Pain
treatment
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Hip pain treatment
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Knee pain treatment
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Rib pain
treatment
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Shoulder pain
treatment
The Injections
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Comprehensive Prolotherapy
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Prolotherapy Treatments
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Prolotherapy and Diabetes
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Painless Prolotherapy
injections
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Whole body Prolotherapy
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Prolozone
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P2G phenol
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Neural Therapy
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How many injections?
Your Questions
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Immune system
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Autoimmune disease
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Obesity and Prolotherapy
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Does Prolotherapy Work?
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Hormones Therapy
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Prolotherapy not working
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Prolotherapy Cost
The Research
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Meniscal Tears and Degeneration
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Regeneration of Articular Cartilage
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Long-term NSAIDs
side-effects
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Prolotherapy research links
Bone Marrow / Stem Cell
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Bone Marrow for articular cartilage
Prolotherapy and
Medications
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Motrin
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Advil
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Cortisone research
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Cortisone shots
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Cortisone injections
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Synvisc
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Neurontin and Elavil
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Pain Management
Medications
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Prescription narcotics
for pain
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Use of pain killers
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Aspirin and Coumadin
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Painkillers
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YES,
THE WHOLE BODY CAN BE TREATED WITH
PROLOTHERAPY!
Amanda has
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). This is a syndrome that can affect every
joint and
ligament in the body. People with EDS like Amanda’s are
typically in a wheelchair by the early 20's! Amanda had been a
person in a wheelchair in the past, but she certainly was not when I
first saw her. She had been receiving yearly
Prolotherapy
from Dr.
Gustav Hemwall, and then started to see me when Dr. Hemwall retired. She received
Prolotherapy to just about all of the joints of her body
over a two day period. It really helped her. She was able to work
part-time and have a much more enjoyable life that others with her
condition.
The more common case
that we see for whole body Prolotherapy is in a patient with
benign
congenital hypermobility or BCH. BCH occurs in about 5% of the
population, typically in women. The condition is characterized by loose
joints due to loose
collagen. The joints are loose with BCH, but not
nearly as loose as they are in EDS. A typical scenario for a BCH
patient is complaints of pain in multiple joints with those joints
unstable on physical exam. The person has often tried extensive
chiropractic treatments, but the pain relief lasts shorter and shorter
periods of time. We have heard patients say that by the time they
checked out of the
chiropractor's office and got in the car, the joints
had moved again! Prolotherapy is done to the areas of pain and, in some
folks, it can be a lot of areas!
Renea has BCH. Though
she has not yet received Prolotherapy to her whole body at one time,
over the course of time she has had most of the joints of her body
treated with Prolotherapy. She now has no
lower
back pain,
neck pain,
shoulder pain,
elbow pain, or
knee pain and we are currently working on
her elbows.
What about the pain of the injections? What about
Fibromyalgia?
What about the
pain of the
Prolotherapy injections?
(Watch where do
Prolotherapy injections go and do they hurt?)
Can something be done to deaden the pain? Absolutely. For extensive Prolotherapy cases like this, we use
intravenous pain control also called conscious sedation. The patient is
not completely “knocked out,” but made “woozy” with intravenous
Demerol,
morphine, or Versed (valium like).
This typically puts a person in a
twilight state, making the shots very tolerable.
In regard to
Fibromyalgia, sometimes the patient may require whole body
Prolotherapy. As you may or may not know, Fibromyalgia is a syndrome
that means “pain all over the body,” That’s all it is. More often than
not, however, the Fibromyalgia patient at
Caring
Medical receives
Prolotherapy to the worst areas and then receives comprehensive natural
medicine treatments to put the body in the healing mode. The
combination of balancing body chemistry and the Prolotherapy helps a
person with Fibromyalgia overcome the condition. Perhaps a better way
to put it is the condition goes into remission. With the remission of
the Fibromyalgia comes an accompanied remission of the pain. In
summary, Caring Medical sees the difficult cases. We help the people who
are supposed to be in wheelchairs or destined to a life-time of pain, or
even worse-yet, destined to long-term drug addiction to
pain killers. We
work to keep everyone active for life – even the “difficult cases!”
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Ross
Hauser M.D.
Caring
Medical and Rehabilitation Services |
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Ask Dr. Hauser
About Prolotherapy
Dr. Hauser is one of the leading
experts in the treatment of chronic pain and sports injuries with
Prolotherapy.
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