Modern Medicine’s Response to Post-Fracture Pain
Cortisone and anti-inflammatories: A common practice of modern medicine is to inject steroids into the painful area or to prescribe anti-inflammatory medications. However, in the long run, these treatments do more damage than good. Although cortisone shots and anti-inflammatory drugs have been shown to produce short-term pain benefit, but 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.
Surgery: When all else fails, patients who experience chronic pain 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 if the surgery involves removing cartilage tissue, it will usually result in arthritis.
The Natural Medicine Approach to Post-Fracture Pain
Prolotherapy for post-fracture pain: A better approach is to stimulate ligament and tendon strengthening and repair with Prolotherapy once the cast has been removed. This will help ensure the complete healing of the injury so there are no long-term sequelae such as arthritis. If post-fracture pain is due to the outside of the bone not having completely healed, Prolotherapy can be used to strengthen the fibro-osseous junction near the source of the pain, which will cause the nerve endings in the periosteum to stop firing. Prolotherapy will also speed up the recovery process, and has even been known to make the injured side stronger than the uninjured one, a benefit highly valued by many athletes, who are always eager to return to their activities as soon as possible. Each Caring Medical patient receives a thorough examination to determine the root cause of pain and the correct course of treatment. Our Prolotherapy physician, Dr. Ross Hauser, is passionate about healing people of their pain and allowing them to return to a normal life.
Chronic pain is most commonly due to tendon and ligament weakness, as is the case for post-fracture pain, 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!
Prolotherapy research on Wrist Pain:
Click here to read Prolotherapy research by Dr. Ross Hauser and his team on Prolotherapy injections for wrist pain.
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