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Football and Rugby Hand injuries: Interphalangeal dislocations are common injuries in these sports, which are often reduced (set back into place) on the sidelines and then taped and splinted. The player goes back out on the playing field with the splinted hand. Any athlete who has sustained an injury with a force significant enough to cause a fracture or joint dislocation knows that some of the joint ligaments are most assuredly injured or torn.
Hand pain: These structures are often the culprits for the athlete who has residual pain in the fingers or whatever joint was fractured, since ligaments have a much poorer blood supply than the bones. Degenerative arthritis forms in the knuckles with aging because of the collateral ligament injuries sustained in the fingers when the athletes jammed or dislocated their fingers. The athlete usually knows this is present by the pain felt with every cold front or temperature change. Receiving Prolotherapy to the collateral ligaments after they are injured will help prevent future degenerative arthritis.
Alternative Treatment for football and rugby hand pain: Because the fingers and hands are often treated lightly or seem less important, we make sure these areas are completely treated and followed by our Prolotherapy doctor Ross Hauser until the injuries are fully healed. Absence of pain is not the only indication of healing. Ask yourself these questions: Does the finger or joint have any clicking, weakness, or numbness? These are signs of continued weakness in the soft tissues. If you experience pain or swelling with weather changes, you may need more treatments. Can a positive jump sign be elicited? We at Caring Medical try to objectively measure the treated ligaments and tendons to check your progress, often with a dolorimeter that measures the amount of pressure required to elicit pain. A healthy ligament and tendon can typically tolerate at least four pounds of pressure before it experiences pain. When a treated ligament or tendon can tolerate that amount of force, which is equal to or greater than the uninjured side, and all other signs and symptoms of joint/ligament weakness are gone, the athlete is then discharged and told to have a wonderful life and career.
The choice is yours! Think about these statistics: The success rate of Prolotherapy in curing sports injuries and chronic pain is on average 85 percent (by most practitioners and research studies) and over 90 percent obtain significant help. What would you rather do?
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