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You would be shocked on how many times we do Prolotherapy for stress fractures. I personally think part of the pathophysiology of a stress fracture is that where the stress fracture is there are structures that are pulling on the bone there. Prolotherapy strengthens that part of the stress fracture. We still might modify activities and I am still going to look at why did a person get a stress fracture. I am going to be honest, a lot of times it is nutritional. Its not over training, I don’t normally see that. Normally the person was training fine but the structures are not strong enough. The bone wasn’t strong enough. The periosteum wasn’t strong enough, and then the structures that were attaching to the bone were not strong enough. So when we strengthen the periosteum, or the cover of the bone, by Prolotherapy. When we strengthen that: the structures, the tendons, the ligaments that are attaching to that area, we get at the root cause of the stress fracture. Often is the blood is to acidic, so at Caring Medical, we check the pH of the blood. Sometimes there is a hormonal component. If somebody’s hormone levels are low, we might give them natural hormones. So in that sense we get people back to their activities much quicker than if they just rest and rehab it. Where if we just go right away, we do some Prolotherapy, we get at the root cause of the stress fracture and then we get the people back in a fraction of the time, and they get back to their sports.