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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
Research
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Can Research Prove
Prolotherapy?
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 Hip
Resurfacing, Hip Replacement, Prolotherapy
Marc
Darrow, M.D.
There are a lot of options to treating your hip pain.
Hip resurfacing is not hip replacement. In hip resurfacing a
metal ball replaces the bone “ball” portion at the top of the
femur (thigh bone) that fits into the socket of the pelvis.
In hip replacement not only is the “ball” replaced, but the
socket and a portion of the femur bone into the “greater
trochanter.”
One of the main selling points for hip resurfacing is that it
leaves more bone so a hip replacement can be performed later.
In our chronic pain clinic at the Darrow Sports and Wellness
Institute – we see this as one hip surgery setting up another.
Surgery in my opinion, should always be the last option.
Is Hip Resurfacing really a less invasive technique?
According to surgeons, hip resurfacing is more difficult to
perform and requires a larger incision than typical hip
replacement. This increases the risk of complications.
For an athlete or worker who’s profession is physically
demanding, this can mean a lot of down time.
Does hip resurfacing keep a younger patient active?
Another main selling feature for hip resurfacing as opposed to
hip replacement is that studies have shown that it allows the
patient to remain more active. The problem is, it is for a
limited amount of time. Hip resurfacing has a life span of 15
years. After 15 years – it is hip replacement.
So if you are a young person of 45 who loves to play tennis or
other demanding sports, at age 60 those days may be gone for
good as your hip resurfacing needs replacement and there is just
enough bone for a total hip replacement.
What are the options?
In our clinic we try to keep the patient away from surgery
because once something is removed, it cannot be restored. Such
as the bone removed in hip resurfacing.
We look at the problem of the hip in another way. The reason a
hip procedure is needed is because there is a bone-on-bone
situation causing pain and possibly impingement of soft tissue.
The reason the bone on bone situation occurred was because the
connect tissue in the pelvis region, the ligaments, tendons, and
cartilage have shrunk, been torn, or have become weakened
through “laxity.” In other words they are stretched out.
Strengthening and restoring the connective tissue, naturally, is
in my opinion, the best first option.
Rejuvenating the hip
In our pain clinic we use Prolotherapy to revitalize weakened
and damaged connective tissue. Using a simple sugar (dextrose)
injection, the Prolotherapy doctor hopes to mimic a new injury
by causing a minor irritation at the connective sites where
tendons attach to muscles, ligaments attach to bone, and also
where cartilage has flatten.
The irritation caused by the Prolotherapy injection causes a
controlled inflammation. In this inflammatory response the body
brings the immune cells necessary to rebuild the collagen
matrix-the protein blocks that soft tissue is made from.
Strengthened ligaments and tendons help hold the hip joint in
its proper place cause less grinding and bone on bone. Restored
collagen can help rebuild the cartilage between the pelvis and
thigh bone – cushioning and relieving the bone on bone
situtation.
Why remove tissue when it can be restored?
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Hip Pain Prolotherapy
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Prolotherapy
and Hip Pain
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Tilted Pelvis
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Snapping Hip Syndrome
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Hip Degeneration
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Pelvic Pain
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Hip
Osteoarthritis
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Hip Arthritis
Prolotherapy
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Hip Pain
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Osteitis
pubis
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Hip Resurfacing
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