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Ross Hauser, M.D. Our "Ironman" Doctor CMRS 715 Lake Street Suite 600 Oak Park, IL 60301 |
| Prolotherapy for Chronic Pain and Sports Medicine in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago Hope Practiced Here |
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Ross Hauser, M.D. Our "Ironman" Doctor CMRS 715 Lake Street Suite 600 Oak Park, IL 60301 |
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Keeps Repetitive Injuries from Repeating A computer worker who develops a repetitive motion injury often first begins to feel weakness, pain, and numbness in the area. Most of the time, the worker is given the diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, which is a condition in which the median nerve is entrapped in the wrist. This is not the cause of most of these symptoms; it is weakness and injury to the tendons and ligaments in the wrist. We can say this because when these are structures are strengthened with Prolotherapy, the symptoms completely remit. For further information on this please read Prolo Your Pain Away! published by Beulah Land Press in 1998. The reason why people with numbness in the hand are quickly given the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome is because allopathic physicians believe that only a nerve entrapment or injury can produce numbness. This is completely false, because ligament and tendon weakness and injury can produce this symptom. Ligaments are the structures that connect the bones together; their function is to provide stability to the joints. Tendons connect the muscles to the bones, and their function is to move the joints. Most people do not realize that these initial signals are warning signs of a potentially career-ending injury if something is not done. People who are given the diagnoses of epicondylitis (elbow tendonitis), DeQuervain’s tendonitis (wrist tendonitis), carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, tendonitis, wrist/elbow ligament sprain, rotator cuff tendonitis (shoulder tendonitis), and cubital tunnel syndrome (ulnar nerve entrapment) are essentially being told that they have repetitive motion injuries. Using the wrong treatment may be detrimental to their health and careers. For those who have not heard the term repetitive motion injuries, you soon will. Many technological workers who are reporting repetitive motion injuries have often worked long hours, sometimes 60- or 70-hour weeks, in a competitive environment, where the goal is to get products to market fast. The workers often take few breaks and work on their computers even while at home. For some, this means tens of thousands of keystrokes per day. The problem is becoming increasingly prevalent so that now musculoskeletal disorders cause about one million employees to miss work each year and costs the nation about $50 billion annually in compensation costs, lost wages and decreased productivity, according to the report. As concerns mount, high-tech firms such as Intel are joining in monthly ergonomic round tables to discuss the problem. “Medical experts” have taken to calling some repetitive motion injuries “Silicon Valley Syndrome” or “programmer’s elbow”, and injured workers are forming support groups or creating their own software programs to reduce ergonomic ailments. Repetitive motion injuries are caused when the soft tissue structures that are being used during the motion do not have time to repair and eventually become degenerated, torn, or stretched. For workers who use the computer for many hours, this primarily involves the tendons and ligaments in the wrist, elbows, and shoulders. This type of injury also occurs in other workers that use their hands and wrists all day on the job including mechanics and carpenters. One should realize that repetitive motion injuries are also a primary cause of sports related injuries. Shoulders are injured in pitchers, knees in jumping sports such as basketball and volleyball, wrists in bowlers, and elbows in golfers. Allopathic physicians treat repetitive motion injuries primarily with rest, anti-inflammatories, and ergonomic training. People who need to type for a living have a difficult time resting, so this treatment is not an option for them. Anti-inflammatories are "popped" into the mouths of millions of people everyday, unbeknownst to them that the anti-inflammatories are hurting the body's ability to heal the injury. The pain from the injury is the body’s attempt to heal the injury because the body heals by inflammation. In other words, treatments that stop the normal healing inflammatory reaction will cause the ligament and tendon injuries to continue to degenerate and weaken. There are other treatments, including the RICE treatment and cortisone shots, that also stop tendon and ligament healing. This concept is the primary reason why workers continue to suffer from the pain and disability of repetitive motion injuries; the injured tissues are not being repaired! Tendon and ligament injuries, no matter how the injury occurred, heal by inflammation. If you anti-inflame the injury, you are anti-inflaming the injury to stay. The only traditional treatment that makes sense is ergonomic training. This involves using proper posture while doing a job. It also involves placing the computer screen at a comfortable angle and elevating the wrists with wrist pads. The person would ideally sit in a chair designed to support the curves in the lower back (lumbar lordosis). These changes have been shown to decrease the incidence of work-related injuries. The best approach of all to cure repetitive motion injuries in the workplace and sports is Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy is a treatment that stimulates the body to heal the painful area. It involves the injection of primarily natural substances into the painful areas to stimulate that area of the body to get stronger and healthier. Prolotherapy stimulates the body to heal by inflammation. Prolotherapy to the wrist, elbow, and shoulders can strengthen such structures as the ligaments and tendons in these areas. Once the structure is completely strengthened, there is no more pain, numbness, or weakness in the area. Prolotherapy has been used successfully on thousands of patients to heal such conditions/symptoms as these:
Donna Resists Surgery Donna was a rising star in one of the fortune 500 companies here in the Chicagoland area. She was now on the verge of going on disability and having a carpal tunnel release surgery. “Doctor, I am miserable. I am not the same person I was a year ago. My hand is numb and hurts all the time. I don’t want the surgery because I know people who had it and now are worse then before.” After examining Donna’s wrist, it was clear that she did not have carpal tunnel syndrome, because her wrist was much wider than it was thick. In other words, she had a thin wrist and this kind of wrist almost never gets carpal tunnel syndrome. She did have the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome with her hand being numb, but her primary tenderness was in the elbows. This is where her wrist extensors attach, which provides the motion that is needed to type all day. “You bet I am ready for Prolotherapy,” she exclaimed. She received about 12 injections into her elbows. Yes, Prolotherapy to the elbows! Because both elbows were tender and she was starting to get symptoms in both hands, both were treated. After the first session, she was improved 25%. She was seen for three visits and is now back working full time. “Prolotherapy is a God send. I wish more people knew about it. It helped save my life and my career.” John Delivers Double Duty John enjoys his job and his workouts. John would work double duty every day. He worked on the computer all day and lifted weights all night. He has a very good body to show for it, but his shoulders were not doing well. “Doc, my shoulders are killing me and lifting weights and typing all day is not helping.” John did not like the advice he was given by his primary care doctor to stop working out and consider switching jobs. “I like my job. I know there is a solution to this. I hope the solution is Prolotherapy.” John received a total of six Prolotherapy treatments to his shoulder and elbow. On the last visit, John was especially generous by giving a box of Krispy Kremes to the office staff They are delicious donuts, so people say! He had to be reminded that Caring Medical is a natural medicine clinic that does not endorse donut eating! He told us that these were "Krispy Kremes" and not just donuts. Best of all for John, is that he can continue to deliver double duty. Prolotherapy is the treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain for the new millennium. The young workers of today are not accepting the old edict that if something causes pain that you must stop. The worker who went to college and worked his/her way up the corporate ladder to have a good job that necessitates using the computer for many hours per day is not just going to rest the area, pop some anti-inflammatories, and get a cortisone shot. The intelligence that got them the good job is the same thing that tells them that those treatments do not make sense. They do nothing to repair or strengthen the areas of injury. The treatment that is needed is Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy will proliferate (where the term "prolo" comes from) the cells that grow the collagen that make up the ligaments and tendons. So keep on typing, or whatever you do on a repeated basis because, yes, repetitive injuries can be cured and that cure is Prolotherapy.
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