Back Pain After Surgery Is Prolotherapy Still an Option?
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Many people only become aware of Prolotherapy after they have undergone a surgical procedure for Back Pain" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102762945546&s=28374&e=001q_sRA8zo1w63TERQsiQ3jafmbw2qQC6H3EYJNC-6VEooh758pLhzbUPx9uG6RZuSQF-KwRn90ongvHqImb8ZLd7zthj089suztsqlmOoMo1Mv3QefcTdLKFpjegpIFm-Ba8SiwXmbl4ZjpjdAQnFNkktH7RZ0UTZ9SfGLxLkrty_rW8AezaRn6aF3hhqDXsA">back pain. Although the pain may not be as severe as it was before the surgery, most people continue to experience significant back pain after surgery. Why? Because the back surgery involved removing supporting structures, such as a lamina, facet, or disc, thus weakening surrounding segments.
Prolotherapy injections to the weakened segments in the lumbar vertebrae often result in definitive pain relief in post-surgery pain syndromes. Back pain is commonly due to several factors and surgery may have eliminated only one. It is possible, for example, to have back pain from a lumbar herniated disc and a sacroiliac joint problem. Surgery may address the herniated disc problem but not the sacroiliac problem. In this example, Prolotherapy injections to the sacroiliac joint would cure the chronic pain problem.
Unfortunately, it is common for a person to have lumbar spine surgery for a sciatica complaint diagnosed from an abnormality on an MRI scan. The sciatica complaint was a simple ligament problem in the sacroiliac joint and the MRI scan finding was not clinically relevantit had nothing to do with the pain problem. For the majority of people who experience pain radiating down the leg, even in cases where numbness is present, the cause of the problem is not a pinched nerve but sacroiliac ligaments" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102762945546&s=28374&e=001q_sRA8zo1w79KN78XoRIj0ZJ_ZepesdY8SvODaIhGEBvdD4S0ndeBwyF-Z_YZeQCjaR6sHdojqlUX7eshphpyX-CgM8vamBWh3ktwg3wti5HMgUbYR_G6ZFtxSaDJt_sXlxWIZN35nA=">sacroiliac ligament weakness.
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