Spinal Fusion Surgery and Prolotherapy
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I had fusion surgery and now live on pain pills. Can this procedure help with scar tissue pushing on a nerve and causing chronic pain in the buttock, leg, and knee?
Many people believe their pain is from scar tissue and nerve injuries but we don't. Please get an EMG/NCV test. NCV means nerve conduction test. This is the test you need to see if you truly have nerve injury. If it is a lot of nerve injury then you will need a treatment beside Prolotherapy. If you have mild nerve injury or your nerves are deemed fine, then by all means get an evaluation for Prolotherapy.
In situations such as these, Prolotherapy has a high cure rate. Generally 3-8 treatments of Prolotherapy are needed. Remember any ligament can give you referral pain at a distance sight. So yes your burning pains down your leg can be coming from your lower back.
I had spinal fusion following a car accident, I am still in pain. Can Prolotherapy help me I am also a diabetic?
When someone has a surgery like yourself and has continued pain after the surgery, the most logical explanation is that the surgery did not address the cause of your pain (or least their are other causes that it didn't address). For you this could be the area above or below the fusion or the sacroiliac joints. In our experience Prolotherapy to these additional areas typically resolves the pain. Remember it takes generally three to six visits of Prolotherapy and sometimes more. But don't fear, just get a Prolotherapy evaluation.
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