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There are a lots of folks who have hypermobility. They might not even know it but, anyone who has like clicking or crunching in a lot of their joints and starts having pain, you can be guaranteed that they have hypermobility. Specifically, hypermobility is when the ligaments in the various joints become too stretched out. So, ligaments are what connect one bone to another bone. This is a model of the hip. (pulls out model of a hip) So, anytime a ligament gets stretched out it’s like a rubber band. It stays stretched out. What the person needs is they need that ligament tightened. So, the treatment to tighten ligaments is Prolotherapy. By far the best treatment to tight a ligament for a loose joint is Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy works great for any type of hypermobility or joint instability. Now if you have a hypermobile joint, it doesn’t necessarily mean you need Prolotherapy. It’s just when that hypermobile joint becomes painful, obviously the ligament is under too much tension. You have to tighten it up to relieve the tension, to get the ligament strong. Thus, the pain goes away then the person can get back to all of their activities. So, the treatment for hypermobility syndrome, which is basically when the ligaments get too stretched out all over the body, is Prolotherapy.
Often people who have hypermobility syndrome they actually have never been really diagnosed. All they know is they have got pain all over their body or they have pain in various joints. Sometimes they will give a history explaining they knew they were kind of hypermobile because as a kid they were gymnasts, or they could do all kinds of maneuvers, like they could hyperextend their knees, or they could bend their elbows back beyond neutral. So, that sort of gives you a clue that person probably have loose joints, and by loose joints, it means that the ligaments are stretched out. Ligaments are what connect the bones together. So, if you start having pain and you know you have loose joints, you can bet that most likely you have a ligament problem. Sometimes the patients are misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia diagnosis or myofascial pain syndrome. So, the person has had fibromialgia diagnosis or myofascial pain syndrome and has had a lot of physical therapy or different treatments and it hasn’t worked. They might consider getting an evaluation for Prolotherapy because technically if you have laxity of ligaments, the treatment of choice in my opinion, is Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy can tighten ligaments and it has been shown to do that it works great for that. Often it is curative. So if you have hypermobile joints, Prolotherapy tightens the ligaments to stabilize the joint. The joint is strong so the person gets back to their athletics or what ever other activities they need to do. Now normally it takes three to six visits. In some really severe cases may take more, and in less severe cases it may take fewer treatments. But over time, the ligaments tighten, then the person gets rid of their pain and the hypermobility in that joint stops and they get back to all their activities.
I have to smile a little bit because normally when I see somebody as a patient its like “John you are going to get three to six visits of Prolotherapy and that’s it.” If somebody is diagnosed with benign congenital hypermobility they come in the office and they have all these loose joints, I typically tell them “for the condition that you are seeing me for, like a loose joint, a hypermobile joint in the shoulder yes you’ll probably need three to six visits.” But, they should consider when they have pain in the future, if they have pain in another joint, that most likely it’s going to be a ligament injury and they should sooner rather than later get Prolotherapy. In other words, it is not like every injury Doctor Hauser gets, I’m running to get Prolotherapy. I mean who wants to get a bunch of shots? But if you have hypermobility, you have laxity of ligaments, you know that you’re a loose jointed person because things click and crack, lets be honest- it’s a ligament problem. So, if you have pain in an area, most likely it’s going to be a ligament problem. It’s not going to be a muscle problem or a tendon problem. So you, rather than someone else, should consider right away going to see a Prolotherapy doctor and going to get Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy compared to other treatments is very cost effective. Prolotherapy typically runs about the cost of one or two physical therapy sessions. So, in my experience it’s very cost effective and it gets the person with hypermobility syndrome back feeling good the quickest. So, cost effective, it works really quick, it’s often curative for the joint involved. It should be the treatment of choice in people with hypermobility syndrome.