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Prolotherapy
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Prolotherapy
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How
Does Prolotherapy Work?
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How
Prolotherapy Helps?
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Indications and Contraindications
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Introduction to Prolotherapy
● Why Get Prolotherapy?
● What is Prolotherapy?
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How Does Prolotherapy Work?
● Are You A Prolotherapy Candidate?
● Tendon, Ligament, Reconstruction
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How Safe Is Prolotherapy?
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Finding a Prolotherapy doctor
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When Prolotherapy May Not
Work
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20
Questions About Prolotherapy
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The History of Prolotherapy
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Curing Chronic Pain
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Sclerotherapy?
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Turning to Prolotherapy
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Prolotherapy and Chronic
Pain
● The Proof Prolotherapy is Working?
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Prolotherapy: Creating Collagen
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How To
Support Treatment
Prolotherapy injections
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Growth Factor Basis of
Prolotherapy
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Prolotherapy
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 Chronic Neck Pain,
Three
Callers To
The Marc Darrow, M.D.,
J.D. Radio Show
Bone Spurs
Caller: I have according to X-rays, spurs in my upper spine and
my neck and also a slightly slipped disc, I am wonder if
Prolotherapy can help me.
Dr. Darrow: Do you have pain down your arms?
Caller: No.
Dr. Darrow: Ok, then I don’t think you will have a problem with
the spurs, the spurs are a signal to us that the vertebrae, more
specifically the ligaments that attach them together are loose
so you have instability in the spine. The spurs are growth of
bone that the body does in order stabilize the vertebrae.
What we can do with the
Prolotherapy is so simple, we just start
an inflammatory response that starts the growth of collagen,
thickens those ligaments, tights up the vertebrae so there is
less instability and there is no need for the spurs to continue
growing and typically it is then that the pain goes away.
It is very good news that you do not have pain in your arms
because that is complicating factor.
Morning Neck Pain
Caller: I wake up in the morning with really bad neck pain, the
pain is on the sides of my neck and I can’t turn my head right
or left. I have tried different
sleeping
positions, different pillows, but that doesn’t help.
Dr. Darrow: Typically when someone describes this type of pain,
it is usually a sprain of the neck muscles that attached to the
bone. Something people live with, sometimes all their lives, but
it is something that can be easily fixed with
Prolotherapy. We
put a needle right into that spot, where the muscles attach to
the bone. The
Prolotherapy injections thicken up the tissue, it
stimulates the body naturally to produce more Collagen and makes
a better connection (like spot welding) of the muscle to the
bone. Very often the pain goes away.
Caller: Is it a big needle?
Dr. Darrow: No, it is a very small needle and we use an
anesthetic before hand so you don’t feel anything.
Most people who think they are going to have a problem with
needles don’t. I hear it all the time from “first timers,” they
say, “I am afraid of needles” but when they have their treatment
they do just fine and they come back for more treatment!
Epidural Injections
CALLER: I had my last injection of steroids of epidural
yesterday. It was done in my neck and I am hoping that this
really works because they were telling me that these injections
come in a series of three and that the third one is usually the
charm.
Dr. Darrow: Have you had any luck with epidurals?
CALLER: No
Dr. Darrow: This probably means that the area of concern has
loose ligaments or something like that in it that
Prolotherapy
can help. Usually if the epidural doesn't work that means that
it is not a problem with the nerve being pressed on by a
herniated disc or
something of that nature.
CALLER: I have been feeling like my nerves
have been going off at any time.
Dr. Darrow: It is a strange phenomena that happens in that if
someone has loose ligaments let's say in their neck or back,
they can get a tingly type of feeling referred often to a
different place. There is no medical term for this, it is a
referred pain,
like a trigger point from a
ligament and very often we treat the
area of instability with
Prolotherapy
to grow more tissue there.
Then this type of tingly nerve feeling goes away, so there is
hope for you. I am sorry that the epidermal didn't help but that
maybe a very good sign for you, that may mean it is not a nerve
problem at all, but more of just a soft tissue problem. |
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