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Can someone get Prolotherapy after surgery if they have continued pain complaints?

Absolutely. Almost every day in the office I’m seeing clients who have had surgery. They haven’t seen the results they thought they would and we’re helping them get better with Prolotherapy. Here’s a very good example, you have low back pain. You try some massage, you try some chiropractic methods. Eventually you get an MRI and it shows a lot of degeneration in the discs and a lot of arthritis in the back. Then you get orthopedic surgery and for the most part the surgery goes well, but in a very short period of time, whether it’s six months, a year, two years, it’s like you are back to square one. Typically that means that there is something else causing your pain and the something else is usually the sacroiliac joints and the sacroiliac ligaments. So, in that case, I would just explain that the surgeon did a good surgery, in the sense that they treated the abnormality on the MRI. Whether or not that was causing some of your pain I can’t say for sure, but what I can say is that currently, right now, you have a sacroiliac problem that needs Prolotherapy. Three to six visits of Prolotherapy injections to the sacroiliac ligaments, those ligaments get stronger, there’s more stability in the lower back. Typically this would then resolve the pain.

Even if someone has had a hip replacement or a knee replacement and then has continued pain afterwards, assuming that the joint replacement isn’t loose, occasionally we’ll order a bone scan to make sure that is not the problem. If a joint replacement is loose, the treatment is simply replacing the replacement. However, if you have continued pain after a joint replacement surgery, it typically means that the structures around the replacement, the ligaments and tendons are causing the pain and those respond phenomenally to Prolotherapy.