Nutritional Deficiency and Prolotherapy
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The body has tremendous regenerative capabilities but one must never forget the fact that many different factors affect connective tissue healing. Perhaps, the most overlooked factor in healing is nutritional.
By definition, pain means something is weak or injured, assuming a musculoskeletal cause for the pain. Most people can tell the date and time when their pain started. "I was in a car accident on….I fell down the stairs on….I was playing a lot of golf when…" Most people with pain know what started the pain they just want to find out how to end it! The first place to start is to look at what you are putting in your mouth to nourish your body.
In just about every nutritional study on Americans, nutritional deficiencies are found. To grow ligaments, tendons, or for that matter to heal any bodily structure, it is safe to say that the whole gamut of essential nutrients are needed. This means the spectrum of amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and trace elements that are supposed to be consumed in a healthy diet. Unfortunately the average person in America gouges on fried fatty foods in between the nutrient-deficiency binges of bread and pasta, which are helped down the old windpipe with sugar-ladened soft drinks.
It wouldn’t be a bad idea for the person in chronic pain to get some nutritional testing done to look for nutrient deficiencies. For the person with chronic pain, perhaps the main reason you don’t heal is because you don’t eat right! Too many carbohydrates is the number one reason people are overweight. The more weight you have the stronger your joints and ligaments have to be to support the weight. So weight loss is a part of curing chronic pain. What you don’t know is that one sugar load hampers immune function for four hours! So the person that has a soda every few hours is suppressing their immune system all day. This is the same immune system that heals your connective tissues. If you want to heal, cut out the sugar and take control of your diet.
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