Prolotherapy and Knee Pain

Bilateral Knee Pain
Long after Prolotherapy treatments concluded, how was her knee pain?
CW is a 72 year-old woman who presented in July 2004, complaining of a five-year history of severe right knee pain. She rated her knee pain on the visual analogue scale (VAS) at a level of 6 on a scale of 0 to 10. She experienced daily pain throughout the whole knee and noted that the severity of the pain was also increasing. Her other symptoms were increased pain upon sitting for long periods of time, difficulty with stairs, and increased pain with walking.

Bilateral knee pain and low back pain
Rusty is a 56 year old medical professional and Navy Reserve officer who came to Caring Medical for complaints of bilateral knee pain and low back pain. His knee pain began 15 years ago, along with swelling of those joints. An MRI revealed chondromalacia patella. He had previously tried physical therapy for one year with only minimal relief of pain, but a lot of money and time spent. He had difficulty going up stairs due to pain. His low back pain started 30 years ago while working in a factory and doing repetitive movements and heavy lifting. He states this affected his ability to do physical fitness requirements for the Navy Reserve.

Prolotherapy and Knee Pain
In our opinion, before letting an arthroscope touch you, it is imperative to have an evaluation by a physician familiar with Prolotherapy (a non-surgical alternative.)

Knee Cap Patella Disorders & Prolotherapy
When there is a problem with this part of the knee it manifests as pain in the front of the knee after strong exertion (running, walking, or stair climbing.) This may be due to erosion of the cartilage on the under side of the patella, poor tracking of the patella in its groove on the front of the knee, or an inflamed tendon on the lower edge of the patella.

Ligament and Tendon Laxities
Incomplete healing results in decreased strength of the area. The ligaments and tendons are normally taut, strong bands of fibrous or connective tissue but, because of injury, become relaxed and weak. The injured ligament or tendon then becomes the source of chronic pain and weakness.

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.

Prolotherapy and Knee Surgery Options
Prolotherapy & the Surgical Repaired Knee
Never Have Knee Surgery Based on an MRI
Healing Knee Injuries Without Surgery
KNEE ARTHROSCOPY FOR OSTEOARTHRITIS
Cartilage Transplant Surgery

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.

Knee Injury and Cortisone
In our opinion, the quickest way for an patient or athlete to lose strength at the ligament-bone junction (fibro-osseous junction) is to inject cortisone to that area. Cortisone and other steroid injections ALL have detrimental effects on articular cartilage.

Prolotherapy and Pes Anserinus Tendons
The most common cause of knee pain is not ligament injury. (We realize that this is shocking, since we have been explaining in past newsletters that ligaments are normally the cause of chronic pain.) The most common cause of chronic knee pain is weakness in the pes anserinus tendons.    

ACL injury Articles
Estrogen and ACL Injuries
ACL TREATMENT OPTIONS
ACL Injury and Hormones
Cruciate Ligaments-ACL, MCL and PCL

Prolotherapy and Knee Replacement
This is not too difficult to figure out just from the figures of the number of people needing joint replacement surgery as directly correlated to the number of people who are developing arthritis, which is directly related to the number of people who have received cortisone injections, arthroscopy, RICE treatment, and anti-inflammatory medications over the past 40 years.

Prolotherapy, Diet and A Golfer's Knee
JJ, a 46 year old female competitive league golfer, was first seen at Caring Medical in late 2006. She was 5’6”, 211 pounds with good muscle mass. She complained of her knees “giving out” along with having bilateral medial weakness, joint stiffness, pain and recurring edema with most leg exercises.

Knee Injuries in the Older Athlete
Knee injury and pain is also quite common in the older athlete. Pain can be due to osteoarthritis of the knee joint, arthritis behind the patella (kneecap), sprain of the ligaments on the inner and outer part of the knee (medial and lateral collateral ligaments), and weakness of ligaments inside the knee (anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments).

Baker's Cyst and Prolotherapy
A cyst is a fluid filled sac in any location of the body.  One of the more common areas where cysts occur is the back of the knee.  These cysts are called popliteal cysts or Baker's cysts.  Typically, damage within the knee causes swelling and the fluid is pumped from the knee to this fluid filled sac.  This creates swelling and sometimes pain in the back of the knee.  This may cause problems achieving full bending or full straightening of the knee.

PROLOTHERAPY AND ARTIFICIAL KNEES
Yes, Prolotherapy can help people with artificial knees and hips, assuming the knees and hips are aligned in the proper position. Most of the pain after an artificial knee or hip relates to the structures around the joint. 

Swimmer's Knee Injuries
A study on the incidence of injuries to various parts of the musculoskeletal system of swimmers, and noticed that a high percentage of breaststroke swimmers complained of pain in the medial knee.

Knee Braces
It is a familiar locker room ritual. The taping of ankles and knees to provide support and limit movement of an existing injury. Despite numerous medical studies confirming the ineffectiveness of taping, and in some cases, actually contributing to further injury, most continue to do it.