healingways
Prolotherapy
To ease Chronic Pain | by Brigit Ingram
T
he practice of stimulating the body to mend itself by generating a
healing response from the immune system is an ancient one. In many
modern integrative health therapies, some old ways from the days of Hip-
pocrates have been made new again, often with a fresh twist of technique
or technology.
The concept of prolotherapy, the ist, assumed the practice of Dr. Gustav inflammatory methods such as rest, ice,
latest approach to pain management, is Hemwall, prolotherapy’s leading physi- elevation and compression (RICE), anti-
traceable to one used by Hippocrates cian expert and proponent at the time. inflammatory medications or cortisone
(460-370 BCE), renowned as the “father Hemwall treated more than 10,000 shots to heal injury is totally flawed,”
of medicine,” on Greek soldiers with patients worldwide and collected data declares Hauser. “Regeneration and
dislocated or torn shoulder joints. on 8,000. According to Hemwall, in healing are pretty simple. No inflamma-
Today, it comes served up in a dextrose a study of 1,871 of his patients, 75 tion, no healing.”
solution, injected into the ligament percent of those who completed treat- Hauser explains why prolotherapy
or tendon attached to the bone. The ments found complete relief from their is so effective in easing pain. “Prolo is
body’s response, a localized inflam- chronic pain. derived from the word proliferate, or
mation in the weak area, increases the Hauser subsequently founded Car- grow. Prolotherapy injections proliferate,
blood supply and flow of nutrients, thus ing Medical & Rehabilitation Services, or stimulate the growth of new, normal
encouraging the tissue to repair itself. in Oak Park, Illinois, and over a period ligament and tendon tissue,” he advises.
Although patient response var- of 16 years has written seven books “The cause of most chronic mus-
ies depending on an individual’s own on the topic of prolotherapy. Adamant culoskeletal pain is ligament and/or
healing ability, the average number of that the fundamental process by which tendon weakness.” He explains that
prolotherapy treatments is four. Severe the human body heals and strengthens ligaments connect bones together to
cases may need 10 or more. itself is inflammation, Ross relishes his provide stability for joints. Tendons
In 1992, Dr. Ross Hauser, a physi- role as medical myth-buster. connect muscles to bones, providing
cal medicine and rehabilitation special- “The traditional philosophy of anti- movement of joints. Weakened liga-
Prolotherapy
Get your life back with this “miracle cure” for pain.
• Arthritis pain • Migraines • Neck pain • Sports injuries • Sciatica
• Back pain • TMJ • Fibromyalgia • Loose joints • Herniated discs
Treat your chronic pain with a simple and safe natural injection without
resorting to dangerous drugs and surgery. Prolotherapy stimulates
your body’s healing mechanisms to grow new ligament,
tendon, and cartilage tissues.
It can cure even decades-old chronic pain.
Dr. Alfred Cormier Elizabeth Eun-jung
Acupuncture Physician Permanent Cosmetics,
A.P. • D.O.M. • M.T.O.M Esthetics and Laser Therapy
239-530-3997
4760 Tamiami Trail N., Suite 21
Naples
2 Collier / Lee Counties
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