Are You An Ideal Candidate For Prolotherapy? |
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Prolotherapy stimulates
the body to repair the painful area. For the patient who
has localized areas of pain or the person who has had a
recent injury from an accident, Prolotherapy is a very
effective treatment to strengthen those specific areas
and eliminate the pain. Realize, however, that Prolotherapy
starts the growth of new healthy, strong tissue. Your body—your
own immune system—grows the tissue. For the person who
has terrible digestion, chronic fatigue, irritable bladder;
and a host of other chronic nutritional, hormonal, allergic
problems, these deficiencies and illnesses should be corrected
so the body will be able to respond to Prolotherapy.
The
ideal Prolotherapy candidate has the following:
1. Pain originating
from a ligament or tendon
2. Strong immune system
3. Willingness to improve and receive follow-up visits
4. Healthy diet
5. Positive mental outlook
For Arthritis and Fibromyalgia
Most people who suffer from
arthritis and Fibromyalgia have a portion of their pain
or all of their pain from ligament and tendon injury. Most
muscle spasms occur because the underlying ligaments are
weakened and the muscles spasm to stabilize the joints,
as occurs in Fibromyalgia. The same can be said for arthritis
except the body is stabilizing the joints in this condition
by overgrowing bone. This overgrowth of bone is called
arthritis.
Prolotherapy allows the stabilizing of joints
by causing a strengthening of ligaments, thereby eliminating
the muscle spasms of Fibromyalgia and the need for the
body to overgrow bones occurs in arthritis.
When Prolotherapy
Does Not Work
The most common reasons why a person may not
attain 100 percent improvement with Prolotherapy are the
following:
1. Inadequate (depressed) immune system
2. Nutritional deficiencies
3. Hormonal deficiencies
4. Other factors causing the pain that are not being addressed
5. Correct area being treated but repair not yet complete
6. Wrong area being treated
This last fact is often overlooked. A good example of this
relates to patients with lower back pain. All that is typically
needed for curing back pain is for the patients to receive
Prolotherapy to the lower back at the sacroiliac joints.
In a small percentage of the people, the sacroiliac joint
remains weakened because the pelvic joint in the front
(pubic symphysis) also needs to be treated. The sacroiliac
ligaments, in this instance, will only maintain the strength
that is attained with Prolotherapy if the pubic symphysis
is also treated.
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