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Joint Pain Options
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Ankle
pain
treatments
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Arthritis
treatment
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Back Pain treatment
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Elbow pain
treatment
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Foot pain treatment
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Groin pain
treatment
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Head-Neck Pain
treatment
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Hip pain treatment
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Knee pain treatment
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Rib pain
treatment
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Shoulder pain
treatment
The Injections
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Comprehensive Prolotherapy
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Prolotherapy Treatments
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Prolotherapy and Diabetes
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Painless Prolotherapy
injections
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Whole body Prolotherapy
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Prolozone
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P2G phenol
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Neural Therapy
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How many injections?
Your Questions
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Immune system
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Autoimmune disease
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Obesity and Prolotherapy
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Does Prolotherapy Work?
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Hormones Therapy
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Prolotherapy not working
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Prolotherapy Cost
The Research
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Meniscal Tears and Degeneration
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Regeneration of Articular Cartilage
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Long-term NSAIDs
side-effects
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Prolotherapy research links
Bone Marrow / Stem Cell
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Bone Marrow for articular cartilage
Prolotherapy and
Medications
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Motrin
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Advil
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Cortisone research
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Cortisone shots
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Cortisone injections
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Synvisc
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Neurontin and Elavil
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Pain Management
Medications
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Prescription narcotics
for pain
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Use of pain killers
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Aspirin and Coumadin
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Painkillers
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WHY WE DON'T RELY ON MRIs
It is prudent for a patient to consider why he or she is getting an
MRI.
If a patient wants to get
surgery then go ahead and get an MRI
(MRI - Knee Research Study). There is almost no other reason to get one.
MRI’s cannot tell a person what is causing their pain, it only confirms what is known by the history and physical examination.
Most MRI findings have nothing to do with why the person has pain and is thus the reason for most ‘failed surgery syndromes.’ Almost all people even after surgery are not pain free. Surgery for pain in the best case scenario should be done only after all of the conservative treatments have been tried and failed. This includes
Prolotherapy!
Degenerated joints, including degenerated or
herniated
discs, signify
ligament laxity.
Ligament laxity or vertebral instabilities are the reason that discs become degenerated. A
herniated disc by definition means the nucleus pulposis (gelatin part of the disc) has herniated through the
annulus fibrosis, which is ligamentous tissue.
Caring
Medical
has an 80%+ success rate of helping people with acute and chronic
disc herniation and
degenerated discs resolve their pain and disability without surgery. For a person in relatively good shape and
immune system function (good healing ability) the likelihood of success is even higher.
Prolotherapy by stimulating the
ligaments to heal, helps the vertebral segment become stabilized and thus eliminates the reason for the
degenerative disc disease.
The patient with an ‘MRI finding’ is at great risk for getting offered the ‘knife treatment.’ Once an athlete receives the ‘knife treatment’ the anatomy in that particular region will never be the same.
Arthroscopy, in particular, is one of the fastest way an athlete can get
arthritis. By shaving away
cartilage and
meniscal tissue during the
arthroscopy, the arthritic process is accelerated. Likewise, when a surgeon removes disc tissue the segments above and below that area are at risk to undergo proliferative
arthritis. (see
A Retrospective Study Shows Prolotherapy is Effective in the Treatment of
MRI-Documented Meniscal Tears)
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Ross
Hauser M.D.
Caring
Medical and Rehabilitation Services |
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Ask Dr. Hauser
About Prolotherapy
Dr. Hauser is one of the leading
experts in the treatment of chronic pain and sports injuries with
Prolotherapy.
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