Archive for the 'Chronic Pain' Category
The fact that we call it pain “management” is very unfortunate. In short, most chronic pain is not just manageable, but can actually be totally alleviated using natural means. This will be a five-post series, in which the main treatment I will share with you is a technique known as prolotherapy. You are probably googling [...]
June 8th, 2009 | Posted in Chronic Pain, Natural Medicine, Prolotherapy | 12 Comments
Understanding inflammation is important in understanding how prolotherapy works. Prolotherapy actually intentionally causes inflammation around tendons and ligaments. Many have the idea that inflammation is a bad thing in every sense of the term. In fact, there is “good” inflammation, and there is “bad” inflammation. Good Inflammation Say you sprain something (like your ankle). You [...]
June 8th, 2009 | Posted in Chronic Pain, Inflammation, Natural Medicine, Prolotherapy | 5 Comments
Unfortunately, very few health care professionals are properly trained to diagnose the true causes of chronic pain. This results in many garbage can diagnoses. The true cause of the vast majority of chronic pain is tendon and ligament laxity. Garbage Can Diagnoses You may have heard of the term before. Basically, it means a doctor [...]
June 8th, 2009 | Posted in Chronic Pain, Natural Medicine, Prolotherapy, Trigger Points | 2 Comments
Prolotherapy can permanently remove ligament laxity, the most common cause of chronic pain. This results in amazing statistics on how effective prolotherapy can be. The Origins of Prolotherapy In 400 B.C. Hippocrates would treat pain in athletes by lancing their injured area with hot pins. Strangely enough, he reported success with this method. Today, our [...]
June 8th, 2009 | Posted in Chronic Pain, Natural Medicine, Prolotherapy | 1 Comment
Prolotherapy is in fact a tremendously effective treatment for chronic painful conditions. Working from that point of view, we must acknowledge that it has yet to become widely known. Difficulties with Researching Prolotherapy The gold standard in research is the double blind, placebo controlled study. This is simply impossible to do with prolotherapy. On one [...]
June 8th, 2009 | Posted in Chronic Pain, Natural Medicine, Prolotherapy | 1 Comment
Getting to the bottom of chronic pain requires and integrative outlook. There are many components involved in pain, and different supplements work towards addressing different components. Some of these are: Decreasing systemic inflammation Improving circulation Increasing body’s stress tolerance Strengthening the immune system Removing dead tissue Reversing free radical damage Inhibiting collagen destruction Stimulating collagen [...]
June 16th, 2010 | Posted in Chronic Pain, Inflammation, Natural Medicine, Prolotherapy, Supplements | 1 Comment
An estimated 26.2% of adults in the U.S. suffer from one or more “mental disorders”. Roughly 6% (1 in 17) suffer from a “serious mental illness”. Such epidemic rates of mental illness have already been well associated with chronic Lyme infections, which some Lyme experts estimate infect 1 in 17 Americans as well. Now another [...]
July 20th, 2010 | Posted in Chronic Pain, Lyme Disease, Natural Medicine, Research, cardiovascular disease | 1 Comment
Prolotherapy is a natural injection treatment given in the doctor’s office that has demonstrated potential to cure 100 percent of chronic pain in an appropriate candidate when given by an adequately skilled physician. (1) In 400 B.C. Hippocrates would lance the injuries of athletes with hot pins. Strangely enough, he claimed that this treatment worked [...]
July 20th, 2010 | Posted in Chronic Pain, Inflammation, Natural Medicine, Prolotherapy, Trigger Points | No Comments