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GUSTAV HEMWALL, M.D.
Ross Hauser, M.D.
In 1955, Dr. Gustav Hemwall learned Prolotherapy from Dr.
George Hackett. He became so proficient
at it that Dr. Hackett immediately began referring patients to Dr. Hemwall. In
all of his many years of practice doing everything from delivering babies to
surgery, Dr. Hemwall said that the most exciting thing for him in the practice
of medicine was still
Prolotherapy, because in doing the treatment unbelievable
results were seen. Imagine that. Dr. Hemwall became a doctor in the 1930s,
delivered babies, performed all kinds of surgery, saw
antibiotics and modern
medicines discovered, and what gave him the most reward? Seeing a disabled
person, crippled over in pain, become completely pain-free. That is awesome to
see! Anyone who knew Dr. Hemwall would concur that the man enjoyed giving shots,
but more importantly he loved the hugs. Dr. Hemwall is very significant in the
history of Prolotherapy because he was the main teacher of Prolotherapy from the
late 1960's until the mid 1990's. I come into this picture because I was the
doctor who took over the practice of Dr. Hemwall when he retired.
Prolotherapy owes a great debt to Dr.
Hemwall.
Between 1955 until his retirement in 1996, he was the main instructor and
proponent of Prolotherapy in the United States. He was not a researcher but a
clinician, and perhaps the world's greatest
Prolotherapy doctor. He treated more than
10,000 patients world wide and collected data on 8,000 of these patients. In
1974, Dr. Hemwall presented his largest survey of 2,007
Prolotherapy patients to
the Prolotherapy Association. The survey related the following:
1,871 patients completed treatment
6,000 treatments were administered
1,399 (75.5 percent) patients reported recovery and cure
413 (24.3 percent) reported general improvement
25 (0.2 percent) patients showed no improvements
170 patients were lost to follow up.
More than 99 percent of the patients who completed
treatment with Prolotherapy found relief from their
chronic pain. These results
are similar to those published by Dr. Hackett, showing that Prolotherapy is
completely curative in many cases (75 to 90 percent) and provides some pain
relief in nearly all patients treated.
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