Overuse injury - consider Prolotherapy
Overuse Injury?
Perhaps you just completed the Chicago marathon or are in the middle of training for a distance event. Or perhaps you are a weekend warrior who just played your first game of flag football in years. Each of these scenarios sets the stage for an overuse injury, one in which conventional medicine says you need rest, ice, compression and elevation (RICE) and anti-inflammatories. Unfortunately, if you have an injury, these treatments are not going to help you heal. In the long run both the use of NSAIDS and RICE do more damage than good. 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 anti-inflammatories can lead to other sources of chronic pain, allergies and leaky gut syndrome, as well as other GI issues such as ulcers and bleeding. Prolotherapy is a much better option!
Everyone is familiar with the experience of sore muscles after intense physical activity. The same degeneration and disruption of tissues that occurs in muscles after strenuous exercise is also occurs in tendons. Sports injuries that linger for more than a couple of weeks may well have a connective tissue deficiency component. The pain experienced by the overuse or injury as well as its duration may be due to a deficiency in the amount of collagen and proteoglycans being made, both of which are needed to rebuild injured tissue.
Caring Medical's approach to overuse injuries is to use Prolotherapy, which stimulates tissues to make more collagen and proteoglycans, which in turn will rebuild the injured tissue, resulting in a stronger, thicker ligament or tendon. Prolotherapy is administered directly to the injured areas in order to stimulate the fibroblasts that make the new connective tissue. Once an individual’s ligaments and tendons are stronger and thicker, activity can actually be increased rather restricted, as is usually the case with the traditional modern medicine approach.
Each patient that visits Caring Medical receives a thorough examination by our Prolotherapy physician, Dr. Ross Hauser. After listening to the patient and carefully considering all factors, Dr. Hauser is able to recommend the best course of treatment. 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!
If you have a nagging injury, don’t delay, contact us today to get on the path to healing.
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