Highlights From the
Marc Darrow, M.D.,J.D. Radio Show A Complicated Disc
Problem
CALLER: I am in my 30's, and
for at least the last three to 4 years I have had significant
back pain
and recently it has gotten worse and to make that more complicated
recently I have had a couple of car accidents that have inflamed my
lower back pain. I have been told that I have a
herniation, I guess a
bulge in my lower back and my concern is I don't
want to have surgery, what I do want to do is have some semblance
of a normal life and I love to play golf which is hard to do with lower
back pain. When you go and play you wind up with an aching back that
practically knocks you off your feet for a couple of days. How can
Prolotherapy
help? I have not until recently heard of it and I
don't want to have the surgery because I am not happy with the
results I hear.
Dr. Darrow: Do you have any pain that
radiates down
your back to your legs?
CALLER: Sometimes I do, at the moment I don't. If I am more
active sometimes I get the pain that radiates down like the thigh of one
leg.
Dr. Darrow: And is the back pain greater than the leg pain?
CALLER: Yes, it is the main thing.
Dr. Darrow: This is a good indication for us that surgery may not
the answer. The only time I think about anyone having
back surgery is
when there is a progressive neurological deficit. And that means that
you can not go to the bathroom, your leg is shrinking, or your leg
doesn't move. That is when you have to think about surgery. My bet is, because of the twisting of the golf, you
have loosened up some
ligaments
in your low back. We need to get them rejuvenated. Studies have shown by
biopsy in these areas that after a series of
Prolotherapy injections, the
ligaments down there get about 50%
thicker and 200-400% stronger and I have taken care of hundreds of
golfers, who have no more back pain.
The Caller is a great example, he
mentioned that he may have a herniated disc but that is not a good
reason to have surgery because all you are doing is cleaning up that
disc but you still may have the pain. If anybody is thinking about
having surgery, they should watch a film of it being done because there
is so much damage done during these things. When you are poking things
into a body you are doing damage.
There are times for surgery, when something become un-anatomical like a
bone is bent or a big floating body in their knee and their knee locks
up and they can't walk, of course, get those things out. It is the
elective surgeries I am talking about.
When you give the body a chance to heal itself, it
does. The problems with people like the caller is that they don't heal
so well because the ligaments do not have a good blood supply so by
doing the
Prolotherapy
we are instilling a new blood supply to the area
which brings
fibroblasts that are cells that
produce collagen and
the area is rejuvenated and the pain goes away.
I have had pain go away in one minute and we have had
pain go away in a couple of months, it depends on the patient situation.
We had one gentlemen come in who had Prolotherapy on his back after 45
years of back pain and he had no more pain. I would say that the average
is three or four treatment over a period of months.
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