THE WHOLE BODY CAN BE TREATED WITH PROLOTHERAPY!
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Amanda has Ehlers-Danlos Syndorme (EDS). This is a syndrome that can affect every joint and ligament in the body. People with EDS like Amanda’s are typically in a wheelchair by the early 20's! Amanda had been a person in a wheelchair in the past, but she certainly was not when I first saw her. She had been receiving yearly Prolotherapy from Dr. Gustav Hemwall, and then started to see me when Dr. Hemwall retired. She received Prolotherapy to just about all of the joints of her body over a two day period. It really helped her. She was able to work part-time and have a much more enjoyable life that others with her condition.
The more common case that we see for whole body Prolotherapy is in a patient with benign congenital hypermobility or BCH. BCH occurs in about 5% of the population, typically in women. The condition is characterized by loose joints due to loose collagen. The joints are loose with BCH, but not nearly as loose as they are in EDS. A typical scenario for a BCH patient is complaints of pain in multiple joints with those joints unstable on physical exam. The person has often tried extensive chiropractic treatments, but the pain relief lasts shorter and shorter periods of time. We have heard patients say that by the time they checked out of the chiropractor’s office and got in the car, the joints had moved again! Prolotherapy is done to the areas of pain and, in some folks, it can be a lot of areas!
Renea has BCH. Though she has not yet received Prolotherapy to her whole body at one time, over the course of time she has had most of the joints of her body treated with Prolotherapy. She now has no lower back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, elbow pain, or knee pain and we are currently working on her elbows.
What about the pain of the injections? What about fibromyalgia?
What about the pain of the injections? Can something be done to deaden the pain? Absolutely. For extensive Prolotherapy cases like this, we use intravenous pain control also called conscious sedation. The patient is not completely “knocked out,” but made “woozy” with intravenous Demerol, morphine, or Versed (valium like). This typically puts a person in a twilight state, making the shots very tolerable.
In regard to Fibromyalgia, sometimes the patient may require whole body Prolotherapy. As you may or may not know, Fibromyalgia is a syndrome that means “pain all over the body,” That’s all it is. More often than not, however, the Fibromyalgia patient at Caring Medical receives Prolotherapy to the worst areas and then receives comprehensive natural medicine treatments to put the body in the healing mode. The combination of balancing body chemistry and the Prolotherapy helps a person with Fibromyalgia overcome the condition. Perhaps a better way to put it is the condition goes into remission. With the remission of the Fibromyalgia comes an accompanied remission of the pain. In summary, Caring Medical sees the difficult cases. We help the people who are supposed to be in wheelchairs or destined to a life-time of pain, or even worse-yet, destined to long-term drug addiction to pain killers. We work to keep everyone active for life – even the “difficult cases!”
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