About Prolotherapy and pain from damaged ligaments, tendons, etc

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Reconstructive Therapy, or Proliferative therapy, or Sclerotherapy,

as has been stated, stimulates the body to repair itself.

 

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When should “proliferative†therapy be considered?

 

According to Faber, under the following conditions.

 

1. When ligaments are either lax or torn, then the ligaments can

be strengthened.

 

2. When any joint has pain lasting longer than six weeks. A

healthy body should be able to heal torn or lax ligaments within six

weeks. If joint pain persists beyond six weeks, it is an indication that

the body has not been able to handle it on its own and that the joint

is unstable from lax or torn ligaments.

 

3. Any joint that is helped by a support or brace. A brace or

support functions as ligaments do. That is, they function to stabilize

the joint. If a support brace helps, proliferative therapy is indicated as

it strengthens the ligaments, enabling the necessary support.

 

4. Any joint that fails to respond to manipulation or adjustments.

Many joint problems can be resolved with manipulations/adjustments

and often manipulation/adjustment is the treatment of choice. Manipulation

is highly effective when bones are out of alignment as a

result of bad posture or injury. When manipulation or adjustment

doesn’t provide lasting relief it is because the ligaments are lax or

torn and can’t hold the joint in place.

 

5. Any joint that is worse after surgery. When injured joint

spacers are removed in surgery (discs, cartilage) this causes the

ligaments to become lax. This laxity causes the joint to become

unstable and eventually form arthritis.

 

6. Any joint that is better with rest and worse with exercise. Rest

allows the body to heal itself and also reduces friction which is

caused by a torn or lax ligament in a weakened joint. Exercise of an

unstable joint makes it hurt more as it creates increased friction.

Because of the decreased blood supply in ligaments, rest alone is often

not sufficient for the body to heal itself. And, because ligaments and

tendons do not contain muscle fiber, exercise will not heal an injured

ligament or tendon.

 

7. Any popping, snapping or clicking joint. A joint that is

unstable snaps, clicks or pops. Proliferative therapy causes

strengthening of the ligaments and thus stabilizes the joint thus

eliminating the popping, snapping and/or clicking.

 

8. Any torn tendon or tendonitis that does not resolve after six

weeks. Tendons are like ligaments in that they are fibrous tissue and

they attach to the bone. They also have a lack of blood supply like

ligaments, and therefore have a poor healing ability. Proliferative

therapy causes a permanent strengthening of torn or lax tendons just

as it does for torn or lax ligaments.

 

In this form of treatment, medical specialists (M.D. or D.O.) often utilize

x-ray, photographs, blood tests and thermography (infrared mapping of body

inflammation through heat sources). Such practitioners become very skilled at

locating hot spots (inflammation and pain) by sense of touch, to confirm

results of other tests, such as stress analysis, that are correlated.

 

After locating all the body points that require this form of

treatment, a fine needle that does not convey a great deal of pain is

used to insert close to the bursar sacs (at the joints at the junction of

bones and ligament) a combination mixture of procaine and sodium

morrhuate, or similar substances that create localized irritation.

 

The procaine acts as an immediate pain desensitizer (as it also

does in intra-neural therapy) and the body eventually converts it to a

form of Vitamin B which is then easily utilized to good purpose. The

sodium morrhuate is a natural body substance -- a derivative of

Vitamin D -- which the body uses to promote the growth of

fibroblasts and collagen tissue, both necessary to reattach and/or

strengthen tendons and ligaments to the bone. Fibroblasts are cells

or tissues from which connective tissue is grown. Collagen is a fibrous

insoluble protein found in connective tissue, including skin, bone,

ligaments.

 

Whether or not these substances do as described is no longer

under scientific question, as at the University of Iowa, and at other

locations, more than 45 years ago, tests were performed on animals

presumably not subject to human placebo effects. The treatment

worked on them, promoting the growth of fibroblasts and collagen

tissue at the sites of injection, tightening up tendons and ligaments.

The treatment is taught only in a post-doctoral course, however,

and it is unlikely that the average family physician, or even that the

average osteopath, would know its benefits, or how to perform the

tasks.

 

With some patients there have been remarkable improvements

after a single treatment, unless the individual does not have good

healing abilities (poor metabolism) in which case many of the this

Foundation’s recommended foregoing treatments (and perhaps

others) should be considered such as for improved metabolism,

proper nutrition and other good health habits.

 

It usually takes 6 to 15 sessions to fully strengthen a small joint

in most cases. While relief may come early, correction comes only

after the joint is fully strengthened. Large joints such as the hip or back

usually require 12 to 30 sessions for correction. The elbow and wrist

about 12 to 30 sessions as these are high stress areas. Treatment times

vary and may take longer if the patient previously received cortisone

or in case of severe injury or re-injury. Each session increases

strength.

 

The therapy is safe, natural and effective in experienced hands.

Lessening of pain should result as well as strengthening of joints.

The treatment should be considered as an adjunct to other

treatments for Osteoarthritis, compression fractures, rotator cuff

tears, unstable knees, backs, neck, shoulders, hips, wrists and elbows

that have been operated on unsuccessfully, and certainly if possible,

to do this treatment before operations are even considered.

 

Reconstructive Therapy, or Proliferative therapy, or Sclerotherapy,

as has been stated, stimulates the body to repair itself.