Thank you for your interest in the Natural Medicine approach to treating disease and healthy living! Caring Medical is currently a full time Prolotherapy doctor's office, headed by Ross Hauser, MD and we are blessed to fill the needs of patients seeking an alternative to surgery. We are accepting new patients and athletes suffering from chronic pain, sports injuries, and arthritis for treatment with Prolotherapy. Due to this large demand in Prolotherapy, we are not currently accepting new patients for natural medicine conditions, this includes autoimmune conditions, weight loss, menopause, hormones, or cancer. Through the years, we have seen so many lives turn around for the better with some of the methods discussed on this page, and encourage you to seek a Natural Medicine practitioner at www.acam.org.
The Response of Traditional Medicine
Since connective tissue deficiency syndrome involves chronic pain and stiffness, a standard practice of traditional medicine includes steroids and other anti-inflammatory medications. However, in the long run, these treatments do more damage than good. In fact, they contribute to the condition! And although cortisone shots and anti-inflammatory drugs have been shown to produce short-term pain benefit, both result in long-term loss of function and even more chronic pain by actually inhibiting the healing process of soft tissues and accelerating cartilage degeneration. Plus, long-term use of these drugs can lead to other sources of chronic pain, allergies and leaky gut syndrome. Furthermore, this approach does nothing to heal the connective tissue and reverse the destructive catabolic process of this syndrome.
Many other treatment approaches, including electrical stimulation, massage and physiotherapy, may also be tried by modern medical practitioners. And if the chronic pain interferes with sleep, anti-depressants may be prescribed. And when all else fails, and especially in the case of localized connective tissue deficiency syndrome, patients may be referred to a surgeon. Unfortunately, surgery often makes the problem worse. Surgeons will use x-ray technology as a diagnostic tool, which does not always properly diagnose the pain source. And decisions to remove cartilage tissue will most commonly result in arthritis.
Caring Medical's Natural Medicine Approach to Connective Tissue Deficiency Syndrome
A better approach, in our opinion, is to stop using anti-inflammatory medications and cortisone shots, as well as to determine the root cause of the connective tissue deficiency. Since individuals with CTDS are in a catabolic metabolic state, that is, one of destruction or breaking down of materials, anabolic hormone levels are checked. Anabolic refers to the constructive part of metabolism that involves building up, regenerating and repairing. Anabolic hormones, which include growth hormone, DHEA, testosterone and progesterone, help stimulate connective tissue growth. Interestingly enough, the hormone estradiol, an excess of which is involved in a number of female reproductive disorders such as PMS, also has catabolic or destructive effects on connective tissue. This could, in fact, be one of the reasons why women are much more likely to suffer from connective tissue deficiency syndrome than men. If an individual's anabolic hormone levels are low, natural hormone supplements are prescribed. In addition, it would be strongly recommended that neither oral contraceptives nor other synthetic forms of estrogen be taken. Dietary adjustments would be made and supplements would also be taken to help regulate estradiol levels.
Other tests would include vitamin and amino acid levels, Diet Typing, pH testing, allergy testing, fatty acid analysis and malabsorption studies. Results would determine what dietary changes, if any, would need to be made and what natural supplements would be appropriate.
Connective tissue such as ligaments and tendons are made out of collagen, which is responsible for their strength, and which is weak in connective tissue deficiency syndrome. Because Prolotherapy stimulates cells to make good collagen, repairing the damage of the catabolic processes, it is an excellent complement to the other natural treatments mentioned above. Prolotherapy is the ultimate connective tissue proliferant, and the more anabolic the patient’s hormonal milieu, the more response he or she will be to treatments, and the more likely the chronic pain will be cured permanently.
Chronic pain is most commonly due to tendon weakness, ligament weakness or cartilage deterioration. The safest and most effective natural medicine treatment for repairing tendon, ligament and cartilage damage is Prolotherapy. In simple terms, Prolotherapy stimulates the body to repair painful areas. It does so by inducing a mild inflammatory reaction in the weakened ligaments and cartilage. Since the body heals by inflammation, Prolotherapy stimulates healing.
Prolotherapy offers the most curative results in treating chronic pain. It effectively eliminates pain because it attacks the source: the fibro-osseous junction, an area rich in sensory nerves. What’s more, the tissue strengthening and pain relief stimulated by Prolotherapy is permanent!
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Caring Medical is a full time Prolotherapy doctor’s office. We have successfully treated all of the conditions we write about. This is why patients travel from across the country and internationally to be treated by our Prolotherapy physician Dr. Ross Hauser. The difference is in the care, technique, and experience you get with Dr. Hauser and team at Caring Medical
