Prolotherapy and Muscle Wasting?
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Prolotherapy and Muscle Wasting?
Q. When I went for my first prolotherapy treatment for my sacroiliac joint I had to sign a paper releasing the doctor for the responsibility if I had any muscle wasting as a result of the therapy.
He said in his experiences he has seen one that had muscle wasting. Is it possible that Prolotherapy can cause muscle wasting? I am wondering because I have had 3 prolo treatments and my buttock muscles are smaller and my chiropractor said one of them is shrinking.
A. In the forty years Dr. Hemwall (my mentor) had done Prolotherapy and the 15 years I have done it, we have had no muscle wasting. If a muscle is tense because it is trying to stabilize a joint like the sacroiliac joint and the person gets Prolotherapy which stabilizes it, the muscle spasms stop. In this case the pain would go away and I suppose the muscle could look less 'tense'. That is the only explanation I can think of. We have never had a case where the needle was stuck into the nerve and then injured the nerve causing muscle wasting.
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