What
is the effect of age on healing?
Ross
Hauser, M.D.
It is amazing how few
people seek out
Prolotherapy treatments after learning that relief from their
pain is possible. It appears that the feeling among the aged is that pain is
just a normal part of the aging process. There is no honor in suffering
needlessly from pain.
Losing the ability to be
mobile and active is possibly the worst thing that can happen to people as they
age. Activity truly keeps the blood flowing. Joints like the hips and knees
depend on walking and weight-bearing activities to provide nourishment to the
joint
cartilage. No walking, no nourishment. No nourishment, no cartilage. No
cartilage, no movement. Walking keeps people alive and keeps the body
functioning It stiffness sets in, the grave may follow.
Because most bodily
functions decline with age, the ability to heal an injury and the immune system
response are slower. With age, the
ligament and
tendon tissue contain less water, noncollagenous protein, and
Proteoglycans. Proteoglycans are a proteinaceous
material containing a large quantity of water The proteoglycans and
subcomponents, such as glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate, allow structures
like ligaments intervertebral discs, and
articular cartilage to withstand
intense pressure. The
collagen matrix becomes disorganized and prone to injury.
Chronic ligament and
tendon laxity is a reason for
chronic pain in the aging population. For these
reasons, older people may respond slower and because of this slower healing more
Prolotherapy sessions may be needed. Teenagers, because they are in the growing
phase of life, rarely need more than one Prolotherapy treatment to eliminate
chronic pain. Someone in their 90's will heal slower because of their age and
often report more than the typical four Prolotherapy sessions to cure their
chronic pain.
Pain is not a normal part
of the aging process. Chronic pain always has a cause and that cause is not old
age syndrome. Chronic pain is almost always due to ligament weakness.
Prolotherapy can help strengthen ligaments at any age and is the treatment of
choice for chronic pain, regardless of age.
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