Treatment of Sacroiliac Joint Injury:

The Response of Modern Medicine
The traditional modern medical treatment for sacroiliac inflammation and/or injury usually involves stopping whatever activity may have led to the injury and pain, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications such as ibuprofen and physical therapy. If these treatments fail to bring relief, cortisone injections are prescribed. The problem with these treatment approaches is that they do nothing to repair the injured ligaments and cartilage that may be involved and, thus, do not alleviate the chronic pain that people with this condition experience.

Stopping an activity, or rest, is just one of the components of RICE, a treatment approach commonly used for many sport-related injuries. Unfortunately, all the components of RICE – rest, ice, compression and elevation – hinder rather than help ligament and cartilage healing. Similarly, the use of steroids and anti-inflammatories actually does more damage than good. 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.
When all else fails, patients who experience chronic joint pain that fails to respond to other treatments may be referred to a surgeon. In fact, studies are currently being conducted to explore the advantages of surgically fusing a sacroiliac joint that has not benefited from conventional treatment. 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 removal of cartilage tissue is involved in the surgery, arthritis is the likely result.

The Natural Medicine Approach to a Sacroiliac Injury
A better approach is to stimulate ligament and/or cartilage repair with Prolotherapy and herbal supplements. The sacroiliac ligament responds very well to Prolotherapy treatment. In fact, Prolotherapy stimulates the growth of the sacroiliac ligament, which helps the bony alignments in the area stay in place, resulting in healing. In addition, it has been found that if the sacroiliac joint is weakened or injured, there is a good chance the pubic symphysis is weakened as well. Both result in pain, especially in the low back. As a result, the pubic symphysis may be treated with Prolotherapy in tandem with the sacroiliac joint.

Chronic pain is most commonly due to tendon, cartilage and ligament damage or weakness. The safest and most effective natural medicine treatment for repairing tendon, ligament and cartilage damage. 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:
Click here to read Prolotherapy research by Dr. Ross Hauser and his team on Prolotherapy injections for low back pain.

Click here to read Prolotherapy research by Dr. Ross Hauser and his team on Prolotherapy injections for knee pain and degeneration.

Click here to read Prolotherapy research by Dr. Ross Hauser and his team on Prolotherapy injections for hip pain and degeneration.

Click here to read a patient’s story of Prolotherapy injection treatment saving him from bilateral knee replacements. This story was published in the Journal of Prolotherapy.

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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.