No Pain No Cane
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Most readers of this newsletter are familiar with the great power of Prolotherapy to eliminate chronic pain, and I think you all also enjoy hearing about successful case reports. Here’s one for you. Last summer I treated a frisky 78 year old woman who came in with her son, and walked with the help of a cane. She had severe osteoarthritis and pain in the right knee, and was afraid of losing her independence and mobility. But she was also determined to avoid knee replacement surgery. Thus, when she found out about the Prolotherapy alternative, it made sense to her and she asked her son to get her over to Caring Medical for treatment.
She had a series of 6 prolo treatments to her knee with the addition of Human Growth Hormone inside the joint to help regenerate the missing cushion of cartilage at the end of the femur and tibia bones that comprise the knee joint.
She made steady progress each time, but then she stopped coming in. I did not get any feedback about her for several months. At that time I also saw a young man with knee pain who turned out to be the nephew of my missing patient. The story that he told me really made my day. He had gone to visit his aunt, and when he entered the living room of her home she said “Watch this!” She proceeded to get up out of her chair, and without her cane to support her, did a lively little dance number for the young man. He was amazed, since he knew how disabled she had been just months before. Because of Prolotherapy she lost her pain and lost her cane.
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