Mayo
Clinic Performs
Prolotherapy!
Robert Filice, M.D. Former staff physician
Many of the readers of
Prolonews know by now that the Mayo
Clinic Health Letter recently published a story that mentioned
Prolotherapy as a valid approach to
chronic pain patients.
When he heard about
this, Dr Hauser set upon a quest to find out the story behind the story. Read below the letter we received from the editor of the
Mayo Clinic Health Letter:
June 6, 2005
Ross Hauser, MD
Dear Dr Hauser:
Thank you kindly for your
letter regarding our article on prolotherapy. As medical editor of the
Mayo Clinic Health Letter I seek
the input of our board and suggestions to provide a broad perspective on
availability of therapies that may be of benefit to our patient population.
There are individuals at
Mayo Clinic that do
Prolotherapy both in our health system at Mayo Rochester
and Mayo Jacksonville. I first learned of Prolotherapy through C. Everett
Koop’s interest in the technique. This led me to further study to understand
its potential value in treating patients with specific types of problems.
Since
chronic pain is such a substantial burden to our population I wanted
to provide information on additional treatments that are gaining in
prevalence and may be available to help them with these chronic conditions.
That in a nutshell is the evolution of our article containing information on Prolotherapy.
With respect,
Robert D. Sheeler, MD
Medical Editor
Mayo
Clinic Health letter
As you can see from this
letter, there are physicians at the Mayo Clinic that are using Prolotherapy
in treating their patients. We are grateful for the candor with which Dr
Sheeler speaks, and his obvious sincere interest in getting helpful
information to those that need it. So often in medicine valuable alternative
treatment methods are squelched or ignored because they don’t fit into the
existing paradigm. As committed natural medicine physicians Dr. Hauser and
myself are constantly on the lookout for new and better ways of helping our
patients, and strive to share what we find with you, our valued readers and
patients. But one thing we already know first hand, and that is that Prolotherapy is an awesome treatment for chronic pain. Our hats are off to
the Mayo clinic for making use of it for the benefit of their patients, and
for recognizing and acknowledging publicly a good thing when they see it!
