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 Acute
and Chronic Inflammation
Jay
S. Harms, M.D.
Prolotherapy, simply
put, is the attempt to trigger an acute inflammatory response in the
body in order stimulate healing. We can almost consider it a way of
tricking the body into healing itself.
Steroid injections do the opposite. Steroid injections suppress a
chronic inflammation and make people feel temporarily better. Then when
the steroid wears off the inflammation returns.
We often forget that there are two types of inflammation – acute and
chronic. They are as different as apples and oranges. Or maybe a better
comparison would be apples and rotten apples.
Acute inflammations are healthy (health giving) and healing. Small
children have acute inflammations all the time and yet remain incredibly
healthy, for the most part. Could some contribution to their health be
played by their propensity towards acute inflammations? I would say
that health is a condition that favors acute inflammation and that acute
inflammation furthers health – it is an upward spiral. Many adults,
too, will notice (if they take the time to do so) that they feel better,
‘more alive’, after an acute febrile illness than they did before they
got sick. Many adults often attribute this to the rest they received
while sick, but this is not giving acute inflammation enough credit.
Chronic inflammations are unhealthy and over time result in deposition
disease (fatty deposits in the heart leading to coronary artery disease
and heart attacks, bony deposits in the joints leading to
arthritis,
connective tissue deposits in rheumatoid
arthritis resulting in enlarged
joints, etc). Chronic inflammations almost never occur in healthy
people. We almost never see small children complaining of joint aches
or pains. Yet as we age and lose our natural vitality and health we all
start to experience the nagging aches and pains of chronic inflammation.
This is why all true healing systems often talk about ‘healing
reactions’. A healing reaction is a temporary worsening of symptoms
followed by an improvement which is above the previous baseline of
health.
Prolotherapy
follows this exact mechanism and explains why
prolotherapy
is not an allopathic/suppressive treatment, but is a natural healing
modality.
For centuries inflammation has been defined phenomenolologically (that
is, based on phenomena that can be verified with the 5 senses) as calor,
rubor, dolor, and tumor. These are the latin terms that stand for
warmth, redness, pain, and swelling. We all know from our own
experience that these are the indicators of inflammation. We don’t need
someone in a laboratory to somehow examine our tissues after a sprained
ankle and tell us that we have elevated prostaglandins (the chemical
associated with inflammation) in order to know that our ankle is
inflamed. All we have to do is look at our swollen, warm, red, painful
ankle and we say, “It’s inflamed.”
After a good
Prolotherapy treatment you will feel sore for a few days, will notice
some swelling and warmth, and maybe some redness. Then as the acute
inflammation subsides the joint that was treated will often feel
stronger and less painful, that is, it will be more healthy – or healed
to a certain extent.
As an experienced
Prolotherapy doctor I have seen this time and time again,
and have also experienced it myself first hand after being the recipient
of many
prolotherapy treatments.
Prolotherapy proves that healing occurs through acute inflammation.
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