by Ross A. Hauser, MD
The Journal of Prolotherapy® desires to be comprehensive in scope as it relates to Prolotherapy. The table of contents in each issue will have most of the following sections:
GREAT NEWS CORNER
Lance Armstrong, the seven-time winner of the Tour de France, once said, “Everyday in yellow is a good day.” As many of you know, the leader of the Tour de France wears the yellow jersey during the race until he is no longer the leader. Then he passes the yellow jersey to the current leader throughout the course of the 23-day event. As long as Lance was leading the race, he would be wearing a yellow jersey! We feel the same way about Prolotherapy as Lance does about wearing the yellow jersey. Every day you can provide Prolotherapy to help rid someone of their pain is not just a good day, but a great day!
Welcome to the Journal of Prolotherapy® (JOP) website. We hope to provide you with the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on what is going on in the world of Prolotherapy. Mostly we desire to educate the world on the life-changing effects of Prolotherapy. I am sure you would agree that it is great news that a treatment exists to get people out of chronic pain.
Each issue I plan to give a synopsis on what is contained in the current issue; hence the name, the Great News Corner. In each issue of JOP we hope to share both the clinicians’ experience with using Prolotherapy, as well as the experiences of real people whose lives have been changed by Prolotherapy!
If you have a story to tell, we want to publish it. If you have any comments that you would like to share with me please email me at bairdn@journalofprolotherapy.com.
Remember that no matter how bad the pain, you can always “Prolo Your Pain and Sports Injuries Away!”
AWESOME STAFF
JOP is fortunate to have a very talented staff from a variety of backgrounds. We will continue to try to have folks involved in JOP that represent health care professionals, as well as the lay public. We hope to hear from folks involved from all over the world! If you would like to volunteer your time to help us educate the world on the life-changing effects of Prolotherapy, please drop us a line!
FANTASTIC FINDINGS
There is much to report on the results of Prolotherapy. Because Prolotherapy stimulates the body to repair painful areas, it can be used in just about every painful condition. What the world needs to hear is that Prolotherapy really does work! We need to publish the results of Prolotherapy for a wide variety of painful conditions—many fantastic findings! With each issue of JOP we hope to add to the ever-growing mountain of published reports that it is possible to get out of chronic pain with Prolotherapy.
While original research is always needed to show that a particular procedure is beneficial, a fantastic finding could represent just one case. This is especially true when Prolotherapy was used instead of surgery for a particular condition. If you have made a fantastic finding with Prolotherapy, we hope that you will write it up and send it to us for publication.
REMARKABLE RECOVERIES
Imagine yourself being in chronic pain for over ten years. You undergo numerous treatments, including several surgeries. The cost of the care along basically bankrupts you. Your life is on the verge ruin and you are in deep despair. You hear about “another” pain therapy and decide to give it a try. After several months of receiving the therapy you start to feel better. Your hope is returning. As you receive more Prolotherapy, not only does your pain go away, but your function starts to return. You start telling everyone, but not many people are listening. What you want to do is tell the whole world your story! You want to shout, “Hey people, you can get your life back! You need to get Prolotherapy for your pain! I have had a remarkable recovery and so can you!”
If the above represents your sentiments, then by all means, let the world know your story! Write up your story. Send us a picture of yourself doing something that you love to do along with a short biography (one to two paragraphs) along with your remarkable horror story turned remarkable recovery with Prolotherapy. We hope you are one of the remarkable recovery stories we share in JOP to encourage others. If you are not a writer, we can interview you and help you tell your story.
TEACHING TECHNIQUES
To encourage doctors to utilize Prolotherapy in all of the conditions it can help, we hope to illustrate and explain the technique of Prolotherapy. By doing this, as well as educating doctors on all the places where further Prolotherapy technique training is available, we hope that Prolotherapy will be utilized to its fullest capacity.
An example of this is the anterior cruciate ligament. Not all doctors inject this ligament. By illustrating the technique of Prolotherapy for the anterior cruciate ligament, we hope that more doctors doing Prolotherapy, will utilize Prolotherapy for anterior cruciate ligament injuries. Ultimately, this will help people with this injury, especially athletes, get back to health quicker!
WONDER WHY?
JOP believes that for most chronic painful conditions, Prolotherapy is one of the treatments that should be seriously considered. In this section of JOP, we will tell you why! We believe that if utilized to its fullest, Prolotherapy can eliminate the need for most surgical procedures for chronic musculoskeletal pain. If utilized early in the degenerative process, we believe Prolotherapy can subsequently reduce the number of future orthopedic surgeries that are needed.
If you agree, then why not write an article on why Prolotherapy should be used for a particular condition. Why does it make the most sense? What has been your experience with the condition? Give a series of cases, for example.
FOUR-LEGGED PROLOTHERAPY
Prolotherapy use continues to grow not only in human, but also in veterinary medicine. While it is important to help people eliminate their pain, it is equally important to show mainstream veterinary doctors that Prolotherapy should be considered a good treatment option for many of the chronic musculoskeletal conditions that animals experience. As in humans, if most veterinarians provided Prolotherapy, a lot of needless animal suffering could be avoided.
NEWS FROM OUR READERS
To have JOP be fully successful, we need to hear from our readers. Do you have questions that you would like us to answer? Did we print something that really helped you? Was there some information that was incorrect? We need your help. Please let us hear from you!
IT’S A WIDE WIDE WORLD: LITERATURE REVIEW
Besides our authors and readers commenting on their experiences with Prolotherapy, we hope to notify our readership about some of the more interesting articles published around the globe on Prolotherapy and painful conditions. Ultimately, we all benefit by continuing to educate ourselves on the latest research and publications regarding chronic pain.
Besides letting readers know where to find the noteworthy article on the internet, we hope to publish the article summary and/or abstract. We will also comment on why this article should be of interest to everyone. Please let us know if you have read a good article and it applies to those interested in helping people get out of chronic pain! We may use it in this section of JOP. We know it is a wide, wide, world out there and we can’t know of all the articles! JOP’s mission is to educate the world on the life-changing effects of Prolotherapy. If other therapies or knowledge that will help us in our quest to rid the planet of musculoskeletal pain (as much as we can) is available, then we need to get the word out!
SKILL ENHANCEMENT
In this section we list current Prolotherapy seminars and training events. If you are sponsoring a Prolotherapy meeting or training session, please email: bairdn@journalofprolotherapy.com for a free listing of your meeting.
SPECIFIC PROLOTHERAPY SECTION
This section is designed to help our readers find abstracts and articles on specific Prolotherapy conditions that were published in the Journal of Prolotherapy®.
PROLOTHERAPY IN VARIOUS BODY PARTS
This section will help our readers find published abstracts and/or articles in JOP on the use of Prolotherapy in particular structures on the body.