Prolotherapy is key to healing
Relief of symptoms vs treatment of cause: The American medical care system is focused on providing relief of symptoms rather than prevention or dealing with underlying causes. Thus when a patient presents with an acute sports injury or chronic pain, the first thing they do is prescribe non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) under the assumption that halting inflammation assists recovery.
Mostly because of a lack of adequate information provided by the prescribing physician, many patients are under the mistaken impression that these drugs not only reduce pain, but also promote healing. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. As most Prolotherapy doctors, but apparently very few orthopedic and family physicians, know, inflammation resulting from injury is an integral part of the healing process. So we feel it is uswise to interfere with your body's natural healing response by using NSAIDs. We utilize natural pro-inflammatory supplements such as ProloMax and ProloSupport Pack from www.benuts.com that work together with your body to assist with healing.
 Furthermore, no available evidence suggests that NSAIDS are able to promote the healing process independent of the body’s inflammatory reaction.
A study in mice specifically compared the effect of NSAIDS with acetomenophen (which Tylenol and is not anti-inflammatory) on healing, and found there was no difference. Prolotherapy doctors like Dr. Hauser contend that the use of NSAIDS is actually counterproductive by virtue of their mechanism of action. Inflammation must not be surpressed, and the danger of doing so is incomplete healing, leading to further degeneration and arthritis.
Physicians have long been well aware of the significant side effect profile of the newer (and older) anti-inflammatory drugs. Recent publicity on the Vioxx and Bextra cases have ensured that everyone else is aware of this now as well, and that the side effects are now known to be as potentially serious as premature death.
An article in the June 2005 issue of The Physician and Sports Medicine concludes that it is rather clear that the benefits of these drugs do not outweigh their risks, and that physicians should be prescribing simple pain relieving drugs rather than NSAIDS for acute sports injuries. This affirms what Prolotherapy doctors like Dr. Hauser have been saying all along. Eventually the truth wins out. It may take them quite a while longer to realize that actually promoting the inflammatory process through Prolotherapy IS the way to get faster healing and recovery.
We encourage our readers who may be suffering from sports injuries or chronic pain not to wait the indefinite time that will be required for their family doctors or orthopedists to understand and accept this next logical conclusion in this matter.
Instead, review more revealing evidence:
Why We Don't Recommend NSAIDs
NSAIDS accelerate degneration and progression of arthritis
More about Prolotherapy
and then come in for an evaluation. We believe you will be very happy you did.
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