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The Dangers Of Prolotherapy
In now nearly 50 years, no serious side effects from Prolotherapy have been reported in
the medical literature despite millions of Prolotherapy treatments given.
In my opinion,
Prolotherapy is not dangerous, Prolotherapy cures
chronic pain. The Journal of the
American Medical Association reported a fatality from Prolotherapy in 1959.
The patient had a history of terrible
low back pain and
sciatica on both sides
for 15 years. She received injections of zinc sulfate in 2.5 percent
phenol
solution. She immediately developed some lower extremity paralysis and was
hospitalized. The report states that she regained almost complete use of her
legs within a few days. Apparently some four months after the Prolotherapy she
goes to the hospital because of nausea, vomiting and low back and leg pain.
She is taken to the operating room and exploratory neurosurgery is performed
at the base of her head. She had a marked hypotensive (low blood pressure)
episode during the operation and an adrenaline compound was needed to keep her
blood pressure up. Immediately after the operation her pupils were barely
reacting to light. The author noted that he thought this was due to cerebral
anoxia due to the prolonged period of hypotension during the operation.
Several hours later the patient died. Does this look to you like a patient
died after Prolotherapy? She did not develop the symptoms that led to her
hospitalization, on October 27, 1957, until four months after she received the
Prolotherapy. She obviously died because of the surgical procedure causing her
blood pressure to drop—the author of the article admits it in the text. The
author noted, "An attempt at surgical correction of this apparently
hopeless situation resulted in death. This technique of precipitating
fibro-osseous proliferation [He is talking about Prolotherapy] appears to be
neither sound nor without extreme danger." A similar erroneous
conclusion might have been "neurosurgery appears to be neither sound nor
without extreme danger." I would not, of course, say this because
neurosurgery can save lives. However, a case of a Prolotherapy side effect is
reported. The side effect appears to have resolved within a few days. The
person is then admitted to the hospital four months later and dies during
surgery. Because of this, "experts" considered all Prolotherapy as
extremely dangerous. This, of course, is published in one of the most
prestigious medical journals to "warn" everyone about it. Another prestigious medical journal, Journal of Neurosurgery, published a report of three cases of side effects related to Prolotherapy in 1961. Never did the physicians state what was injected in any of the three cases. In reality, an improper solution was used. The typical Prolotherapy solutions was not what was used in these cases. But because one physician used a different solution, the natural conclusion was that all Prolotherapy is highly dangerous. The conclusion in this article was "...it is clear that injection of sclerosing solutions into the region of the spine is a highly dangerous procedure." Imagine if a totally incompetent neurosurgeon was performing brain surgery, not following standard protocols of treatment and people were dying or left paralyzed. Would it be right for someone to write an article in a medical journal regarding these cases and then state that neurosurgery is a farce and extremely dangerous because everyone is going to die or become paralyzed? How could
Dr. George
Hackett, a great pioneer of Prolotherapy, have a 90 percent cure rate without
even one side effect, yet these other physicians report four cases of
people receiving significant side effects? The answer is easy. The physicians
who caused these side effects did not follow the cardinal rule of
Prolotherapy. Do not inject around the spine unless the needle is touching the
bone. Additionally, they did not use the standard solutions of the day, such
as Sylnasol. The authors of these articles (including the editors of J.A.M.A.
and Journal of Neurosurgery) should have made it extremely clear that standard
Prolotherapy protocol was not followed in each of these cases. A more
reasonable conclusion would have been that all
Prolotherapist are not created
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