anyone heard of Dr. Dunn- cartilage replacement?

[Guest guest]

Hello - My name is Christine. I'm new to this group.

 

I've had arthritis since age 2. I had a thr in 04. Now, it's being recommended

that I have a total knee replacement & a r hip as well. I'm only 40. I don't

want to spend the rest of my life in surgery.

However, I also can't bear the pain much longer as it's draining my spirit &

limiting my activity a lot.

 

I am very active when I can be. I love to ski & bike. I have a 3yo son that I

want to be able to do these things with.

 

My rheumatologist recently put me on Enbrel. Don't feel any better yet. Dr.

Dunn in Fla (iagh.com) says he can regrow cartilage & fix me without surgery.

However, I'd have to feel confident it could work to go there, because I live

out west. I'd have to give up my job & relocate for 2 months, plus find

childcare & transportation to appointments. It would be a huge expense &

committment, but worth it if it works.

 

He seems really professional & smart. My only frustration Is that he doesn't

seem to have much time to answer my questions & this is one of the biggest

decisions of my life -

 

anyone have any info or advice

 

thank you - peace

Christine

[Guest guest]

Before you do anything radical, please try taking a few heaping

tablespoons full of MSM/day for a few months... worked for me and I

had your problems. And drop the drugs!

 

 

>..Hello - My name is Christine. I'm new to this group.

 

I've had arthritis since age 2. I had a thr in 04. Now, it's being

recommended that I have a total knee replacement & a r hip as well. I'm

only 40. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in surgery.

However, I also can't bear the pain much longer as it's draining my

spirit & limiting my activity a lot.

 

I am very active when I can be. I love to ski & bike. I have a 3yo son

that I want to be able to do these things with.

 

My rheumatologist recently put me on Enbrel. Don't feel any better yet.

Dr. Dunn in Fla (iagh.com) says he can regrow cartilage & fix me without

surgery. However, I'd have to feel confident it could work to go there,

because I live out west. I'd have to give up my job & relocate for 2

months, plus find childcare & transportation to appointments. It would

be a huge expense & committment, but worth it if it works.

 

He seems really professional & smart. My only frustration Is that he

doesn't seem to have much time to answer my questions & this is one of

the biggest decisions of my life -

 

anyone have any info or advice

 

thank you - peace

Christine

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I haven't heard of Dr Dunn, but have heard of an treatment that causes the

cartilage to grow back. It is called Prolotherapy and I understood that Dr Faber

was the expert on this in the States. There are quite a few doctors in the

States though that practise this - I think the number was 250.

I have posted a few articles here recently about Prolotherapy. Below is also a

url to find a doctor whom practises this. I have the article below by Dr Faber

on 'biological reconstruction' on a Word document too - email me at

>surpriseshan2< if you would like it.

 

biological reconstruction - alternative to hip prosthesis

by Dr. William J. Faber

http://www.prolotherapy.com/articles/faberbr.htm

 

Resolve Joint Pain Without Surgery

Reconstructive Therapy Prevents Injury And Increases Endurance

By Dr. William J. Faber

http://www.prolotherapy.com/articles/faberrjpws.htm

 

Non-Surgical Tendon, Ligament and Joint Reconstruction

by William J. Faber, D.O.

http://www.prolotherapy.com/articles/fabernstljr.htm

 

A RATIONALE FOR PROLOTHERAPY

by ALLEN R BANKS Ph.D.

http://www.prolotherapy.com/articles/banks.htm

 

Connective Tissue Damage

The Underlying Culprit of Chronic Pain

Ross Hauser, M.D.

http://www.prolonews.com/connective_tissue_damage

http://www.prolonews.com/connective_tissue_damage_the_underlying_culprit_of_chro\

nic_pain.htm

 

 

PROLOTHERAPY FIVE YEAR STUDY

Kent L. Pomeroy, M.D.

http://www.drpomeroy.com/pages/documents/prolo_study.pdf

 

SEVEN YEAR PROLOTHERAPY OUTCOME STUDY

Kent L. Pomeroy, M.D.---- 4/5/2008

http://www.drpomeroy.com/pages/documents/7year.pdf

 

About Dr Faber

http://www.milwaukeepainclinic.com/drFaber_DoctorOfOsteopathicMedicine.asp

 

Where Can I Find a Doctor Experienced with Reconstructive Therapy

(Prolotherapy)?

William J. Faber is the best known Doctor in the field, and author of 3 books on

this form of medical therapy. He is the Director of the Milwaukee Pain Clinic,

and has taught his methods to many physicians currently employing RT. Dr. Faber

will send a current list of Doctors employing Reconstructive Therapy to you, if

you will send him your request along with a SASEnvelope. This webpage also has a

list of doctors from Dr Faber's list.

http://www.nutriteam.com/doctor.htm

 

What Is Prolotherapy

http://www.prolonews.com/what_is_prolotherapy.htm

 

What Is Prolotheray

http://www.chicagosportsmedicine.com/prolotherapy.htm

 

 

What is Prolotherapy and What are the Indications and Contraindications for it?

K. Dean Reeves, MD

http://www.getprolo.com/contraindications_and_prolotherapy.htm

 

 

ACUPUNCTURE, TRIGGER POINTS & PROLOTHERAPY: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

by MARC DARROW, M.D.,J.D.

http://www.getprolo.com/prolotherapy_acupuncture_trigger_points_marc_darrow.htm

 

PROLIFERATIVE THERAPY

By Norman Zale

http://www.prolotherapy.com/articles/zale.htm

 

STAYING HEALTHY

Surgery to relieve back pain is often unnecessary and unsuccessful.

Below, some questions to ask and some alternatives to the surgeon's knife.

" Doc, do something--fast! "

By Katarzyna Wandycz

http://www.prolotherapy.com/articles/wandycz.htm

 

blessings

Shan

 

 

 

 

, " activegirl1968 "

<activegirl1968 wrote:

>

> Hello - My name is Christine. I'm new to this group.

>

> I've had arthritis since age 2. I had a thr in 04. Now, it's being

recommended that I have a total knee replacement & a r hip as well. I'm only

40. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in surgery.

> However, I also can't bear the pain much longer as it's draining my spirit &

limiting my activity a lot.

>

> I am very active when I can be. I love to ski & bike. I have a 3yo son that

I want to be able to do these things with.

>

> My rheumatologist recently put me on Enbrel. Don't feel any better yet. Dr.

Dunn in Fla (iagh.com) says he can regrow cartilage & fix me without surgery.

However, I'd have to feel confident it could work to go there, because I live

out west. I'd have to give up my job & relocate for 2 months, plus find

childcare & transportation to appointments. It would be a huge expense &

committment, but worth it if it works.

>

> He seems really professional & smart. My only frustration Is that he doesn't

seem to have much time to answer my questions & this is one of the biggest

decisions of my life -

>

> anyone have any info or advice

>

> thank you - peace

> Christine

>

[Guest guest]

Christine

 

There is a very good website for arthritis. They are dedicated to finding true

treatments and a cure for all forms of arthritis. My environmental doctor has

been using their protocol for at least 10 years to successfully treat and cure

all forms of arthritis. I also have a friend whom this doctor treated 10 years

ago using this treatment and she has not had any pain nor arthritis since. Her

hands were so bad that there were like claws. She was only in her late 30s at

the time. It is actually at this website that I first heard of Prolotherapy. I

had been looking for information on how to grow back hip and knee cartilage for

over a year.

Good luck!

blessings

Shan

 

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from this retrospective study of 98 patients with definite or classical RA, who

were treated with antibiotic therapy, suggests better than expected outcomes

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Rheumatoid Arthritis Early With Antibiotics

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Candidiasis: Scourge of Arthritics

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albicans spreads with a weakening

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produce similar symptoms in many bodily tissues. Both diseases are systemic in

nature. A Candidiasis victim does not necessarily have Rheumatoid Disease, but a

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Hormone Balancing:Natural Treatment and Cure for Arthritis

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because the causes are not known. " If the cause is an imbalance in the normal

hormones of adaptation and resistance, then eliminating the cause by restoring

this balance will produce a true cure. Informed patients who suspect that their

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Sclerotherapy, Proliferative Therapy, Reconstructive Therapy: Treatment of First

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Landmark Work on Niacinimide and Arthritis

Exclusive interview of William Kaufman, Ph.D., M.D. by Jonathan Wright, M.D.

Nutrition & Healing, August 1997, p.5-6

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Bee Pollen: The Perfect Food

Royden Brown has studied bees and their products personally, and also has had

translated virtually all of the important scientific papers from every country

in the world. I highly recommend that you purchase a copy of How To Live

The Millennium, available through C.C. Pollen Company1. for a more thorough

reading. This chapter, therefore, will be limited to a generalized summary of

Royden Brown's book -- of what I didn't know about bees and their products, and

how those products can influence our health. The content herein and all quotes

are used by permission of Royden Brown who also owns the copyright.

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Boron and Arthritis

http://www.arthritistrust.org/Articles/Boron%20and%20Arthritis.pdf

 

Arthritis and Strontium

http://www.arthritistrust.org/Articles/Osteoporosis%20And%20Strontium.pdf

 

Treatment and Prevention of Osteoporosis

Supplement to The Art of Getting Well. Most of the calcium preparations that are

touted through news media do not work on many women, mainly because for the most

part they are calcium carbonate or some calcium compound of equal difficulty to

absorb. According to Pizzarno and Murray's Textbook of Natural Medicine2,

" Recently there has been an incredible push for supplementing calcium in an

effort to halt bone loss. While this appears to be sound medical advice,

osteoporosis is much more than a lack of dietary calcium. It is a complex

condition involving hormonal, lifestyle, nutritional, and environmental

factors. " According to William Campbell Douglass1, M.D., as reported in " Death,

Taxes and Osteoporosis " , over forty percent of women over [the age of] fifty

produce less stomach acid than normal. Without stomach acid, calcium carbonate,

and like compounds, cannot be utilized. Therefore they do not solve the

osteoporotic problem.

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Arthritics and Osteoporosis

Anthony di Fabio

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Lymphatic Detoxification

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LYMPH DRAINAGE THERAPY

Three main actions of lymphatic drainage are:

1) Stimulation of body fluid circulation. It activates lymph

function and lymph circulation. Indirectly stimulate the blood circulation

of the Body (enhance blood capillaries resorption, increase

pulsation of capillaries, activate venous circulation, . . .).

2) Stimulation of the immune system: the passage of

lymph in the lymph nodes stimulate the immune system (the humoral

as much as well as the cellular immunity). The stimulation

of lymph circulation activate antigen/antibody presentation and

immune reactions.

3) Nervous sytem: stimulate the parasympathetic nervous

system (relaxation effect, antispastic effects -- muscle tonus -- ,

etc). The constant stimulation of the C-fiber mechanoreceptors has

inhibitory effects (analgesic -anti-pain-action).

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OSTEOARTHRITIS: LITTLE KNOWN TREATMENTS

by ANTHONY DI FABIO AND PAUL JACONELLO, M.D. Osteoarthritis involves loss of

joint cartilage, death of cells beneath the cartilage and also cartilage and

bone proliferation at the joint margins with bony growth formations.

Osteoarthritis often includes inflammation of the tissue around the fluid-filled

sacs (bursae) surrounding joints -- which would otherwise be subject to friction

without these sacs -- and tendon sheaths (synovium). As Osteoarthritis appears

to be caused by a combination of factors -- hormonal deficiencies, faulty

nutrition, stress, deficient enzymes --

each of these should be attended to. More accurately, each individual's problem

must be studied and evaluated for characteristic uniqueness, that breakthrough

treatment modality.

http://www.arthritistrust.org/Articles/Osteoarthritis%20Little%20Known%20Treatme\

nts.pdf

 

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One-to-One Correspondence May Not Exist Between Causation and Symptoms; Two

Traditional Accepted Medical Hypotheses; Systems Affected by Arthritis

2. Table of Arthritides Symptoms and Their Classifications

Table I: Collagen Tissue Diseases (Rheumatoid Diseases) and Associated Rheumatic

Disease Conditions

Table II: Arthritis (Rheumatic Diseases) and Related Diseases Caused or

Suspected of Being Caused by

Bacterial, Mycoplasmic, or Viral Infections.

Table III: Osteoarthritis and Degenerative joint Diseases

Table IV: Rheumatic Diseases Known or Suspected to be Biochemical or Endocrine

Abnormalities

Table V: Other Rheumatic Diseases

3. Rheumatoid Disease: Classified by Symptom

4. Rheumatic Diseases and Microorganisms: Classified by Symptom

5. Osteoarthritis and Degenerative Diseases: Classified by Symptom

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Osteoarthritis and Degenerative Diseases: Classified by Symptom

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, " activegirl1968 "

<activegirl1968 wrote:

>

> Hello - My name is Christine. I'm new to this group.

>

> I've had arthritis since age 2. I had a thr in 04. Now, it's being

recommended that I have a total knee replacement & a r hip as well. I'm only

40. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in surgery.

> However, I also can't bear the pain much longer as it's draining my spirit &

limiting my activity a lot.

>

> I am very active when I can be. I love to ski & bike. I have a 3yo son that

I want to be able to do these things with.

>

> My rheumatologist recently put me on Enbrel. Don't feel any better yet. Dr.

Dunn in Fla (iagh.com) says he can regrow cartilage & fix me without surgery.

However, I'd have to feel confident it could work to go there, because I live

out west. I'd have to give up my job & relocate for 2 months, plus find

childcare & transportation to appointments. It would be a huge expense &

committment, but worth it if it works.

>

> He seems really professional & smart. My only frustration Is that he doesn't

seem to have much time to answer my questions & this is one of the biggest

decisions of my life -

>

> anyone have any info or advice

>

> thank you - peace

> Christine

>