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.

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?