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SPORTS
INJURIES AND PROLOTHERAPY
Ross
Hauser, M.D.
Prolotherapy
is a treatment that stimulates that body to heal the painful area. This is the best definition of Prolotherapy. Read it again, changed just
slightly. Prolotherapy is a treatment that stimulates the body to repair
the painful areas.
Prolotherapy stimulates the repair of injured, damaged structures.
It involves
the injection of natural substances (along with anesthetics so the injections
don't hurt that much) at the exact site of an injury to stimulate the immune
system to repair the area. The exact term for the natural healing process that
occurs after an injury is inflammation. Thus, Prolotherapy causes an
inflammatory reaction at the exact site of injuries to such structures as
ligaments, tendons, mensici, muscles, growth plates, joint capsules, and
cartilage to stimulate these structures to heal.
Specifically, Prolotherapy causes fibroblastic proliferation (where the term
Prolotherapy comes from). Fibroblasts are the cells that actually grow the
ligaments and tendons. By proliferating the fibroblasts, new, strong, collagen
tissue is formed which is what is needed to repair ligament/tendon sprains and
other sports injuries. A detailed explanation of the mechanisms of
Prolotherapy in curing sports injuries is found in
Prolo Your Sports Injuries
Away!
I THOUGHT PAIN MEANT THAT I AM TOO INFLAMED?
To heal an injury the body mounts an inflammatory reaction. It is this
inflammatory reaction that repairs the damage caused by the sports injury or
trauma. If an athlete's injury remains painful for a prolonged period of
time it
means that the area is still weakened and damaged. Pain to an athlete
should signify a structure is weakened and elicit the response of obtaining
Prolotherapy,
not anti-inflammatories which cause a further weakening of the structures.
IF ANTI-INFLAMMATORIES AND CORTISONE WEAKEN TISSUE THEN WHY DOES THE PAIN GO
AWAY?
Great question. It is like in your home when the fire alarm goes off because
there
is a fire in the home. You could to stop the alarm just take out the
batteries. You would then feel better because the alarm wouldn't be blaring
out the message that something very dangerous was brewing. Of course, this
would have no effect on
the fire that is burning your house down, nor would it do anything to the
children
that are sleeping in the upstairs bedroom. A more prudent approach would
be to grab the kids and get out of the house. If time would allow another
option would
be to discover what is burning and put the fire out.
Anti-inflammatories and cortisone shots stop the bodies cry for help. Pain
should signify to the athlete that something is wrong. A vital structure
needed
for optimum athletic performance is weakened, stretched, and damaged. The
pain is from the body trying to repair it. By knocking out the
inflammation, the
pain subsides, but so does any chance for healing. Realize that just
because a structure doesn't hurt does not mean complete healing. This is why
so many athletes re-injure the same structure year after year. They have
taken anti-inflammatories or received cortisone shots to knock out the pain,
only to have
it recur because the structures strength never returned. A better
approach is to strengthen the structure after the injury with Prolotherapy.
Complete healing after each injury needs to be the goal of every athlete.
IF THE BODY HEALS BY INFLAMMATION WHY WAS I GIVEN ANTI-INFLAMMATORIES?
Unfortunately for many athletes the tenets in the book
Prolo Your Sports
Injuries Away! are not accepted by most ‘sports medicine authorities’.
This is
similar to the mercury toxicity issue. It is clear from the governments
standpoint
that mercury is toxic to the human body as there are strict guidelines for
mercuries use in industry and industry exposure. The Environmental Protection
Agency has clear guidelines to how much exposure of mercury is ‘safe’ in
the workplace and the environment, yet the government allowed and still allows
dentists to put mercury directly into the mouths of Americans via amalgam
fillings. For the American Dental Association and other ‘authoritative’
agencies
to now ‘admit’ that mercury is a poison (which it clearly is) could cause
anarchy
and tremendous legal action. Imagine if all of a sudden the AMA and large
orthopedic surgery and sports medicine societies admitted that anti-inflammatory
drugs and cortisone shots actually stop the healing process
and are the
primary cause of the arthritis in the 20 million Americans with the disease,
again pandemonium and legal actions could result.
We should add that in large measure the writing of
Prolo Your Sports Injuries
Away! was prompted because we just could not take it anymore! We saw
athlete after athlete having their dreams dashed by the kind of care they were
receiving at the hands of their team physicians! In the book
Prolo Your
Sports Injuries Away! even that is a misnomer as most team physicians are
orthopedic surgeons and
thus their designation should be team surgeon! It is prudent that every
athlete
have a Prolotherapist on their team! |
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