Caring Medical
& Rehabilitation Services
715 Lake Street, Suite 600
Oak Park, Illinois 60301
708.848.7789 Phone
708.848.7763 Fax

WHY WE DON'T RELY ON MRIs

It is prudent for a patient to consider why he or she is getting an MRI. If a patient wants to get surgery then go ahead and get an MRI. There is almost no other reason to get one. MRI’s cannot tell a person what is causing their pain, it only confirms what is known by the history and physical examination.

Most MRI findings have nothing to do with why the person has pain and is thus the reason for most ‘failed surgery syndromes.’ Almost all people even after surgery are not pain free. Surgery for pain in the best case scenario should be done only after all of the conservative treatments have been tried and failed. This includes Prolotherapy!

Degenerated joints, including degenerated or herniated discs, signify ligament laxity. Ligament laxity or vertebral instabilities are the reason that discs become degenerated. A herniated disc by definition means the nucleus pulposis (gelatin part of the disc) has herniated through the annulus fibrosis, which is ligamentous tissue. Caring Medical has an 80%+ success rate of helping people with acute and chronic disc herniations and degenerated discs resolve their pain and disability without surgery. For a person in relatively good shape and immune function (good healing ability) the likelihood of success is even higher. Prolotherapy by stimulating the ligaments to heal, helps the vertebral segment become stabilized and thus eliminates the reason for the degenerated disc.

The patient with an ‘MRI finding’ is at great risk for getting offered the ‘knife treatment.’ Once an athlete receives the ‘knife treatment’ the anatomy in that particular region will never be the same. Arthroscopy, in particular, is one of the fastest way an athlete can get arthritis. By shaving away cartilage and meniscal tissue during the arthroscopy, the arthritic process is accelerated. Likewise, when a surgeon removes disc tissue the segments above and below that area are at risk to undergo proliferative arthritis

WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MY MRI
SHOWS A HERNIATED DISC?
Ross Hauser, M.D.

Run, do not walk to a Prolotherapist. It is prudent for a patient to consider why he or she is getting an MRI. Does Caring Medical order MRIs? Of course, but almost never. Most MRI findings have nothing to do with why the person has pain and is thus the reason for most ‘failed surgery syndromes.’ Almost all people even after surgery are not pain free. Surgery for pain in the best case scenario should be done only after all of the conservative treatments have been tried and failed. This includes Prolotherapy!

Degenerated joints, including degenerated or herniated discs, signify ligament laxity. Ligament laxity or vertebral instabilities are the reason that discs become degenerated. A herniated disc by definition means the nucleus pulposis (gelatin part of the disc) has herniated through the annulus fibrosis, which is ligamentous tissue. Caring Medical has an 80%+ success rate of helping people with acute and chronic disc herniations and degenerated discs resolve their pain and disability without surgery. For a person in relatively good shape and immune function (good healing ability) the likelihood of success is even higher. Prolotherapy by stimulating the ligaments to heal, helps the vertebral segment become stabilized and thus eliminates the reason for the degenerated disc.

The patient with an ‘MRI finding’ is at great risk for getting offered the ‘knife treatment.’ Once an athlete receives the ‘knife treatment’ the anatomy in that particular region will never be the same. Arthroscopy, in particular, is one of the fastest way an athlete can get arthritis. By shaving away cartilage and meniscal tissue during the arthroscopy, the arthritic process is accelerated. Likewise, when a surgeon removes disc tissue the segments above and below that area are at risk to undergo proliferative arthritis.