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Partial
list of treatable conditions |
It is important to understand that this is only a partial list! The best
way to determine if prolotherapy can help is to register
for an evaluation with Dr. Thomashefsky or other trained prolotherapist.
- Lower Back Pain
Low back pain can be due to relaxation or looseness in the ligaments
surrounding the lower vertebral segments and/or in the sacroiliac
joint. This is often not a pinched nerve. Prolotherapy can help
to tighten the ligaments and stabilize the lower back.
- Neck Pain
In a whiplash injury from an automobile accident or a fall, ligaments
can be torn and not heal back to their normal length and strength.
The neck gets "out of adjustment". Then, muscles go into
spasm to support the loose vertebrae. The patient experiences a
chronic low grade, nagging pain and muscle tightness. Prolotherapy
can help tighten the ligaments and allow the muscles to relax.
- Shoulder
Pain
Shoulder pain, especially rotator cuff strains, tears or dislocations,
can easily be treated by prolotherapy. This strengthens the tendinous
or ligamentous attachments to improve the function of the shoulder
joint and decrease pain.
- Wrist Pain
Wrist ligaments can be torn. The wrist is very much like the ankle.
If one sprains the ankle or sprains the wrist and the ligaments
don't heal back to their normal length and strength, joint dysfunction
will result. People will have trouble with grip and with the strength
of their wrist and hand. Prolotherapy can help to restore the normal
function of the wrist joint.
- Knee Pain
- Hip Pain
Hip arthritis is quite common. What comes first is a relaxation
of the ligaments around the hip, allowing too much "rock and
roll" in the joint. The joint wears away more quickly. Prolotherapy,
especially with the addition of Glucosamine and other growth factors
can help grow new hip ligaments and cartilage.
- Foot Pain
- Sciatica
Sciatica is due to a pinched nerve from a herniated disc or a bone
spur. This may require surgery. Often, however, relaxation of the
lumbar ligaments allow too much motion in the lumbar segments, which
can "tweak" the nerve and cause pain down the leg. This
can very easily be treated by prolotherapy to tighten the ligaments
and stabilize the vertebral segments.
- Tennis Elbow/Tendonitis
In the first six weeks of an overuse injury, like tennis elbow or
tendinitis, Cortisone can be used to decrease inflammation. After
six weeks, however, the process turns from an inflammatory process
to a "degeneration" of the tendon attachment known as
"tendinosis". This cannot be successfully treated with
Cortisone. Cortisone may reduce pain for a week or two and then
the pain will return. Tendinosis can easily be treated by prolotherapy
to strengthen and tighten the tendon attachment.
- TMJ
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction is the same as any other joint
dysfunction. When ligaments are torn either from an injury or from
an automobile accident, the joint can be loose. The looseness allows
too much "rock and roll" in the joint, allowing the cartilage
to wear away resulting in arthritis in the jaw joints (TMJ). Prolotherapy
can help tighten the TMJ ligaments to restore normal function to
that joint. Sometimes, however, after an automobile accident the
cartilage in the TMJ joint is disrupted. An MRI scan may need to
be done to evaluate the joint function.
- Sprains
- Strains
- Whiplash from falls or automobile accidents
Whiplash is tearing of the muscle and ligament attachments. Whiplash
does not refer to a fracture. After a whiplash, eighty percent of
people are completely pain free in three months. "Mother Nature"
is done healing these muscle and ligament tears after three months.
If the patient continues to have dysfunction in their joints (neck,
low back, shoulder, etc. from a whiplash) there will be no more
growth and chronic pain will continue. These tears can be easily
treated with prolotherapy. About 80% of people get at least 80-100%
better after a course of prolotherapy.
- Headaches
Headaches are very often due to muscle tension. The high neck ligaments
are loose when those joints are unstable. The muscles will tighten
causing tightness up into the crown of the head and temples. This
muscle spasm results from the instability in the neck. This can
be treated with prolotherapy to restore joint function to the vertebral
joints of the upper neck.
- Painful
joints
- Torn ligaments and cartilage
- Degenerative arthritis
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