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WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE
PROLOTHERAPY WORKED?
I STILL HAVE PAIN!
A patient came in for his sixth
Prolotherapy visit. The nurse told me the patient wasn’t feeling too much
improvement in his
knee pain, though he had
already received five
Prolotherapy treatments.
I examined his knee and there were no more crunching
sounds. His
anterior cruciate
ligament had tightened.
His anterior drawer sign was negative. He had only
slight tenderness in his
patellar
ligament. Upon further
questioning the patient did admit that he felt his
knee was more stable but still it felt ‘funny’ when he
was
running. This is mostly what bothered him,
he couldn’t run well on it and that was his main reason
for getting it treated. I explained to the patient that
his
ligaments had been healed by
Prolotherapy. It was
then that he asked why he still had pain.
When a joint undergoes
ligament damage, the muscles
tense up to stabilize the joint. The muscles are then
called upon to not only move the joint but also to
stabilize the joint. Eventually they get overwhelmed and
start to atrophy. When a joint is damaged or degenerated
for a long time, one can bet that the muscles
surrounding the joint will be significantly weaker than
muscles in the other limb, which is what happened to
this patient. The pain he was experiencing was due
to quadriceps
muscle weakness. As a matter of
fact, he had lost about 50% of the muscle strength in
his right quadriceps. It was one-half inch less thick
than his other one. We then went through the
exercises
he was to do to preferentially strengthen his right leg.
One simple maneuver was to wear an ankle weight just on
his right side. I encouraged him to do extra sets of
exercises just for his right leg. He was to do balance
work which involves standing and holding various poses
on his right leg.
So when you do get an injury get it checked out. Don’t
wait until the joint degenerates. If it does, often you
will need to preferentially strengthen the muscles of
that joint along with getting
Prolotherapy to obtain
complete pain relief.
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Ross
Hauser M.D.
Caring
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