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Road to Prolotherapy: An Athlete’s Prolotherapy Story
Michelle Murphy
I am a long distance runner, who, over a number of years, developed sacroiliac
joint pain, iliotibial band problems, piriformis syndrome, patella femoral syndrome,
and pain all along my entire right side. I had sought out treatment as these
problems progressed in severity, from both the allopathic community as well as
extensive chiropractic and physiotherapy. Unfortunately, these treatments were
all minimally successful at best, providing no real relief.
During the last run of a taper prior to running the Toronto Waterfront Marathon
in September 2006, I heard a crack, and felt searing pain through the inner thigh
and groin. In spite of my best efforts to seek medical attention for this problem,
I was offered nothing by allopathic medicine, except an assessment of a pulled
groin muscle, and stop running. Since walking was a serious problem, their advice
was of no help. Months of dedicated, daily physiotherapy treatments proved mostly
futile until finally the physiotherapist, a marathoner herself, informed me of
a treatment called Prolotherapy. She believed this would address the laxity of
the ligaments of my right SI joint, which had culminated in what was in fact
a fracture of the inferior pubis ramus resulting from multiple biomechanical
problems, and laxity of the ligaments of the SI, exacerbated by many miles of
running.
My story takes a small turn from the typical “sports injury and Prolotherapy”
route, after I was introduced to Dr. Rob Banner in the Pain Clinic at St. Joseph’s
Hospital in London, Ontario. Based on his experience and my previous lack of
success with other approaches in trying to correct my biomechanical problems
and the resulting pain, several other therapies in addition to Prolotherapy were
first necessary to create an environment in my body more receptive and favorable
to treatment. This article encompasses several other treatments that were essential
to the ultimate success of my Prolotherapy treatments. I felt this would also
present an article somewhat more unique in nature for your readers, and other
practitioners as well.
Journal of Prolotherapy. 2009;2:96-98.
KEYWORDS: headache, knee pain, low back pain, neck pain, Prolotherapy, shoulder
pain, running injury, thoracic pain. |
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