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Knee
Ligaments and Cartilage |
Ligament and Tendon Laxities
Sports and
athletics involve tremendous forces. Tennis players serve up to 140 miles per
hour, pitchers throw a baseball 100 miles per hour, marathon runners run five
minute miles for 26 miles, and so on. Is it any wonder that the body starts to
break down? Most athletic injuries involve strains and sprains to tendons and
ligaments,
respectively. A tendon attaches a muscle to the bone and
involves movement of the joint. |
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MCL
This
ligament
on the medial aspect of the knee, the medial collateral ligament (MCL),
is a commonly injured ligament. It is a broad thick band about four to six
inches long. It has deep and superficial layers. This ligament is vulnerable to
blows to the knee from the outside, which often occur in contact sports. The
exciting thing is that these ligaments can heal well if the person treats them
correctly after the injury. What the athlete should not do is use the
RICE treatment
and
anti-inflammatory
medications, as these stop the healing process. A
better approach is the
MEAT program, which involves movement, exercise, natural
analgesics, and specific treatments such as physiotherapy or
Prolotherapy. |
Prolotherapy Regenerates Knee Cartilage
all the surgery in the world
cannot cause the new growth of healthy tendon and ligament
tissue; at best, the pain may be alleviated, but for all the
expense, risk, and trauma, the underlying cause
of pain may never be addressed. Prolotherapy is a safe, simple,
inexpensive, effective, and proven cure for chronic pain.
CARTILAGE
TRANSPLANT SURGERY
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? |
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