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Fantastic
Findings
A Retrospective Study on Hackett-Hemwall Dextrose
Prolotherapy for Chronic Hip Pain at an Outpatient Charity
Clinic in Rural Illinois
Ross A. Hauser, MD
& Marion A. Hauser, MS, RD
Objective: To investigate the outcomes of patients undergoing
Hackett-Hemwall dextrose Prolotherapy treatment for chronic hip pain.
Design: Sixty-one patients, representing 94 hips who had been
in pain an average of 63 months, were treated quarterly with Hackett-Hemwall
dextrose Prolotherapy. This included a subset of 20 patients who were told by
their medical doctor(s) that there were no other treatment options for their
pain and a subset of eight patients who were told by their doctor(s) that surgery
was their only option. Patients were contacted an average of 19 months following
their last Prolotherapy session and asked questions regarding their levels of
pain, physical and psychological symptoms and activities of daily living, before
and after their last Prolotherapy treatment.
Results: In these 94 hips, pain levels decreased
from 7.0 to 2.4 after Prolotherapy; 89% experienced more than 50%
of pain relief with Prolotherapy; more than 84% showed improvements
in walking and exercise ability, anxiety, depression and overall
disability; 54% were able to completely stop taking pain medications.
The decrease in pain reached statistical significance at the p<.0001
for the 94 hips, including the subset of patients who were told
there was no other treatment options for their pain and those who
were told surgery was their only treatment option.
Conclusion: In this retrospective study on the
use of Hackett-Hemwall dextrose Prolotherapy, patients who presented
with over five years of unresolved hip pain were shown to improve
their pain, stiffness, range of motion, and quality of life measures
even 19 months subsequent to their last Prolotherapy session. This
pilot study shows that Prolotherapy is a treatment that should be
considered and further studied for people suffering with unresolved
hip pain.
Journal of Prolotherapy. 2009;2:76-88.
KEYWORDS: alternative to hip surgery, hip pain, ligament injury, Prolotherapy,
retrospective study. |
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