Healing Versus Anti-Healing
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Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘crux’ as an essential point requiring resolution. In regard to the whole health care debate this should be the central focus. Is our health care system going to Healing or Anti-Healing?
There is much debate over prescription drug coverage for the elderly. Currently 13% of the Gross National Product of the United States goes for health care coverage. It is a misnomer, the coverage is for sickness not health care. Most of the health care given under this coverage goes for sickness care that physiologically is anti-healing and thus making the person sicker.
Let me give you just one simple case that represents what is happening in the health care cosmos in the United States. About 10 days ago my mother-in-law gets admitted by her primary care physician to the hospital with terrible pain.
Immediately they give her a morphine I.V. drip.
This causes her respiratory system to shut down. She develops a pneumonia requiring antibiotics and thorocentesis (a large needle is placed by her lungs to remove fluid). The morphine causes her bowels to shut down so she doesn’t have a bowel movement in about five days necessitating more medicines to be given. The morphine causes her to have a diminished appetite (along with the constipation) so her albumin plummets (sign of immune suppression). She gets horribly weak so she can no longer walk and will need to go to a rehabilitation hospital. The morphine also causes diminished sensation, hallucinations, depression, so she basically doesn’t move and gets a bed sore. The morphine suppresses urination, necessitating a catheter be placed. The catheter causes blood in the urine so she is soon to get scoped up the bladder to ‘make sure it isn’t anything else”. The doctors in the hospital are also considering doing a brochonscopy (tube down the lungs) and endoscopy (tube down the stomach).
When I saw her I felt confident that she had a simple herniated disc.
After about a week in the hospital and multiple consults (she has about 5 physicians on her case now) the consensus was herniated disc. The one medicine that helps this initially is a steroid they would not give to her. I ended up speaking to two of her physicians and multiple hospital administrators including the president of the hospital to get her this and other care. She received the medicine and two days later she was pain free. The other procedure she is to get soon.
What is her outlook? Guarded.
She went into the hospital totally independent
and will come out of the hospital totally dependent.
We hope and pray that she will recover from this ordeal but she may not. She is in such a weakened state from the supposed ‘health care’ that she received. Her care had nothing to do with health but everything to do with making her sicker. In other words it was anti-healing. Her doctors have no idea that morphine and its derivatives suppress all cells of the immune system. In regard to the rest of her hospital care I have not mentioned the lack of physical mobility, physical therapy, aggressive nutrition, and social support that was not done.
Natural Medicine Is About Healing
Natural Medicine seeks to correct the underlying physiology that led to the illness, symptom or condition. It is about helping the body to heal so the person is cured of the condition. Treatments are given that help the body heal and get stronger. Natural Medicine helps keep the patient out of the doctors offices. It is about changing a person from a patient to a person. Yes you had chronic back so instead of chronic pain patient you are John the tennis player. Instead of being the lady with chronic fatigue you are Mrs. Jenson who helps out at the school lunch program. Yes, instead of being the poor lady with cancer you are Irene the triathlete.
This country and specifically those in health care have to wake up. Health care is about healing. Let’s get back to the basics.
PROLOTHERAPY IN CHILDREN
Ross A. Hauser, M.D.
I am frequently asked in person and via email “What about Prolotherapy in children?” Plain and simple, Prolotherapy works great in children. Children heal great. They are much like animals. Yes I know they sometimes act like animals but what I am referring to is they heal like animals. I have taught two veterinarians to do Prolotherapy. Most of the animals they treat are better in just one treatment, whereas humans take three to six visits. Why is this so? The vets believe it is the outstanding nutrition that the animals have. Animals eat animal food. Dogs eat dog food, they do not eat hot fudge brownie treats. Most of what humans eat is not food. It is processed chemicals. The poor nutrition in humans most likely accounts for the majority of the delays in healing even with Prolotherapy.
Marion and I wrote a whole chapter on treating children with Prolotherapy in the book Prolo Your Sports Injuries Away! This is because most of the children we see come for treatment because their pain and injury is keeping them from doing some athletic event they desire to do.
Some of the more common child/adolescent conditions that are successfully treated with Prolotherapy include:
Tendon/Ligament Sports Injuries
Recurrent Joint Dislocations
Osgood-Schlatters Disease
Little league Elbow
What is the protocol. Every patient is an individual but in general for children/adolescents desiring to return to a sport we do Prolotherapy every one to three weeks. If they had a recent joint dislocation we would do the treatment once a week and limit activity while they were doing Prolotherapy. Most children/adolescents need three sessions of Prolotherapy.
Prolotherapy stimulates the body to repair painful areas. It doesn’t matter whether a person is four years old or ninety-nine. So make sure the kids eat healthy and if they have an injury that isn’t healing you know where to turn….Prolotherapy.
CARING MEDICAL SPORTS CENTER
SPORTS SHOULDER INJURY
Ross A. Hauser, M.D.
Shoulder pain is a common problem amongst both serious and recreational athletes. Chronic instability, rotator cuff tendinitis, impingement syndrome, AC joint separations, and arthritis can each be effectively treated by Prolotherapy.
Prolotherapy has many advantages over surgery, including less rehabilitation time, cost, and the fact that it gets at the root cause of the athlete's problem, which is tendon or ligament weakness.
Flaws with Rotator Cuff Surgery A study done at the Mayo Clinic in 1997 by Dr. Mansat and colleagues reported a complication rate of 38 percent in shoulders undergoing rotator cuff repair. In order of frequency, the complications of the surgery were frozen shoulder, deep infection, and dislocation. Many of these patients who developed frozen shoulder had undergone a second surgical procedure to remove the adhesions.
Rotator Cuff Tendinitis and Impingement Syndrome Rotator cuff tendinitis occurs when the small muscles of the rotator cuff become strained causing weakness of these structures and subsequent tendinitis. Pitchers, quarterbacks, tennis players (serving), and swimmers are prone to rotator cuff tendinitis and impingement syndrome because they perform a lot of overhead movements which is when the rotator cuff is in its most vulnerable in this position.
Impingement syndrome occurs when the rotator cuff tendon becomes pinched between the humeral head and the overhanging acromion process when the arm is raised above the head. This happens when the space becomes narrowed, as occurs when the rotator cuff muscles weaken and the humeral head rides high in the socket or when bone spurs and calcium deposits narrow the space. Impingement also occurs when the contents of the subacromial space increase in size, most often due to a swollen rotator cuff tendon or bursa, which is painfully squeezed between the humeral head and the acromion process.
Common treatment for rotator cuff tendinitis and impingement syndrome by traditional medical doctors includes rest, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), physical therapy, and cortisone injections into the subacromial space. Because a cortisone injection has very strong anti-inflammatory properties, it may reduce the swelling in the tendon and bursa, relieving the symptoms. These treatments may temporarily help, but since the underlying cause has not been addressed the problem invariably returns. Degenerative fraying and tearing of the tendon may occur if constant irritation of the tendon occurs from the impingement process over time. The best way to treat this unresolved process is with Prolotherapy injections to the ligaments and tendinous insertions of the rotator cuff and deltoid. This, combined with gradual re-strengthening of the rotator cuff muscles, give an excellent chance for a full recovery and performance.
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