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Why aren’t more double-blind studies done on Prolotherapy?

To be honest with you, there are very few double-blind studies on surgery. The reason is that you can’t double blind, because if you stick a needle into an area of the body, well, that’s called acupuncture. Sticking a needle into the skin, and not injecting something, is acupuncture. Acupuncture has a biological effect. It’s not like a sugar pill, where 30% of the people get better with a sugar pill. That’s called the placebo effect. When you stick a needle into a person, even if you are not injecting anything and it’s just the placebo, you have a biological effect. That means you are going to get a healing effect. The more invasive the procedure, the more there is a biological effect. You can never blind a Prolotherapy study. Thus, if you inject a known proliferate, like sodium morrhuate, which is an extract of cod liver oil, and then inject saline on the other knee, well all you have to do is research saline injections, and you’ll see that it will help 50-60% of the people. So, there isn’t such a thing as a double blind study as it relates to Prolotherapy. Occasionally you’ll see a study where it showed that the Prolotherapy didn’t reach statistical significance. The reason for this is that the “blind” isn’t just a 30% response; it’s a 50 to 60% response. If you research such a study, you’ll see that when they injected the biological agent, 75 to 80% of people had a good response. 75 to 80% in a “Prolotherapy” study, where it isn’t even aggressive Prolotherapy like I do, it’s just injecting a few shots vs. a lot of shots, is still a major response. You get a 75 to 80% response. So imagine if the patient worked on their health and received more aggressive Prolotherapy treatments with stronger Prolotherapy solutions. That response would then go up to 90 or 95%, which is what a Prolotherapy doctors practice should have. 90 to 95% of people improve with Prolotherapy.