What is the cost of Bone Marrow Prolotherapy Or Stem Cell Prolotherapy

What is the cost of Bone Marrow Prolotherapy or Stem Cell Prolotherapy? Because Caring Medical does in situ which is Bone Marrow Prolotherapy or Stem Cell Prolotherapy in its natural environment and because we do it immediately, we can keep the cost way down. Our type of Bone Marrow Prolotherapy or Stem Cell Prolotherapy is magnitudes less than the traditional harvesting of the cells that type of Bone Marrow Prolotherapy. I would just refer people to the link that is on this video (http://www.caringmedical.com/about/patientinfo/pricingpayment.asp).

What is the cost of Bone Marrow Prolotherapy – Dr. Hauser For Your Specific Condition

I am a firm believer in keeping things simple, keeping the cost down, and then not doing Bone Marrow Prolotherapy on everybody that wants it. Let’s only do Bone Marrow Prolotherapy if you need Bone Marrow Prolotherapy. I try to treat people as if they are a relative or I am treating you. In other words, would Dr. Hauser for your specific condition get Bone Marrow Prolotherapy? If the answer is “no” we can just do normal Prolotherapy, normal Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy, which is a fraction of the cost of Bone Marrow Prolotherapy. If that is the case then let’s do that and keep the cost down. For more info, please visit the link (What is the cost of Bone Marrow Prolotherapy).

Do stem cells need to be harvested and grown for injection? I don’t believe so. I think the body knows best. What we do at Caring Medical is in situ Prolotherapy, in other words we do in situ Stem Cell or Bone Marrow Prolotherapy. What this means is that we take out the stem cells directly from the bone marrow because that is the main center of stem cells in the body. Bone marrow cells, it appears, have the most potential to differentiate into cartilage cells compared to other stem cells. That is another reason we might use bone marrow versus other cells as far as stimulating or hopefully stimulating the repair of articular cartilage.

Do Stem Cells Need To Be Harvested And Grown For Injection – The Situ Prolotherapy

We do in situ Prolotherapy which means we take the bone marrow obviously cells directly out of the bone marrow, which is inside the bones, and then we inject it directly into the knee. So, that’s called in situ Prolotherapy. We don’t harvest the cells. Harvesting the cells is done outside the body. What some centers do, including the hospitals, they either take the bone marrow cells or they get stem cells from fat or bone marrow and then they harvest them, which means they grow them in a lab. Or they take cartilage cells from surgery, like arthroscopic surgery and they grow them in a lab. Because it is done outside the body, it is called in vitro. They do use whole cells. When you use whole cells it is called in vivo but, again they are doing it outside the body. I don’t know about you but, I don’t want my cells being harvested and grown all over here because I just think the body knows best. Are the cells going to be healthy? What exactly are they doing? What are they putting in there? What’s happening? Just logically, cells that are outside the body cannot be the same as the ones inside the body, you can never duplicate what happens inside the body.

 Do Stem Cells Need To Be Harvested And Grown For Injection – The Best Example Come Up

The best example I can come up with is breast feeding. Everybody knows breast feeding is best. Breast feeding is in situ. In other words, the baby suckles to the mother’s breast and the mother’s body will make the right kind of milk for the baby. No matter how much medicine tries to get the right formula to feed the baby instead of breast milk, breast milk is always going to be best. So, I think it is best if you take the bone marrow cells, you put them into the joint, no harvesting. You just put them directly into the joint, then the body will do what the body was meant to do to heal that joint.

People forget that bone marrow cells are self renewing. In other words, theoretically, if you have one good bone marrow cell and it is in the right environment in the body, it is going to have a greater potential to live. Basically, if you harvest cells or you take your cells directly out of your bone marrow, the cells still have to live in your joint. What has the greater potential to live, some cell that is completely healthy inside your bone marrow and we inject them directly into the knee or some cell that again is take from your bone marrow but is grown for several weeks or months and then injected into your knee? I would say that healthiest one is just one that is fresh.

 Do Stem Cells Need To Be Harvested And Grown For Injection – Fresh Best Or Fresh Healthier

Is fresh best? Is fresh healthiest? When you catch fish and it is a fresh fish and then you eat, it is that healthier? Or is it better to catch it, freeze it in your freezer for a month and then eat it? Which one is healthier? I just believe that the body knows best. Having said that though there are not any studies that I know of that say that one kind is better than another, as far as scientific studies.

As far as this office, we are not doing anything patented. We are just going to take bone marrow cells and are going to inject them. We are going to inject them into the various joints. We are going to study it, do questionnaires and a lot of the folks we are going to have before and after X-rays. I think like a lot of centers we are just going to do good documentation and we are just going to find out: Does Bone Marrow Prolotherapy, or Stem Cell Prolotherapy, add to the healing effects of procedures like Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy? I think that in some specific clients the answer definitely will be “yes.”

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Situ Bone Marrow Prolotherapy

Situ Bone Marrow Prolotherapy – The Type Of Prolotherapy

A great question that I am asked is: what is the difference between in vivo, in vitro, and in situ? The type of Prolotherapy that Caring Medical does whether it is Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy, Bone Marrow Prolotherapy, Stem Cell Prolotherapy, PRP Prolotherapy, is always in situ. In other words, we always do it in the natural environment.

Situ Bone Marrow Prolotherapy – Natural Medicine

Natural medicine is all about the philosophy of the body knows best. The body knows how to heal its self. The body knows specifically what cells are needed and what growth factors are needed. So, let’s just provide the body the tissues, the substances that it needs to heal. We don’t need to grow stuff outside the body. When you grow cells outside the body, when it is outside the body that is called in vitro. In situ is in its natural environment like the knee joint, in vitro is outside the body. In vivo means that you are using whole cells, but again, most clinics that do different types of cartilage implantation are using whole cells but they are growing them outside the body. The problem is that the longer those cells are outside the body the less healthy they are.

 Situ Bone Marrow Prolotherapy – The Best Things To Do

Again, I just believe the body knows best so, it just makes the most amount of sense to me. What would I want done on me? Would I want somebody to take some cells, do something in some lab for weeks, months, days, whatever, do a bunch of processing, then it is injected back into me? Or would I rather have a doctor take some bone marrow cells, they’re fresh, they are literally taken out of my bone marrow then they are put in here within seconds? It goes from here, then it goes into here. (Points from top of tibia to the knee joint.) To me, this way you know the cells are really, really healthy and that is called “in situ.” In situ means in its natural environment and the theory anyway is that the body knows best. The body doesn’t need just stem cells, it needs a whole bunch of cells and a whole bunch of growth factors to get repair. So, let’s put the stuff in the knee that is needed for the body to repair, the body will do the rest.

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Bone Marrow Prolotherapy At Caring Medical

Prolotherapy? That is what we do at Caring Medical. Caring Medical, being a comprehensive natural medicine clinic, believes that the body knows best. I just want to give you an example of what in situ means. We all know that the best milk for a baby is going to be breast milk. In other words, when the baby suckles on the breast they are getting milk in its natural environment right from the mother. Modern medicine, no matter how good these pharmaceutical companies are trying to get formula milk healthy, you know as well as I do it is never going to be equal to what normally happens when the mother feeds the baby. It is never going to be as good because every time an infant suckles the breast milk changes. I think that most people do not realize that. If the baby is getting sick, the way the baby suckles is different and then the breast milk will have more immune components so, the baby doesn’t get sick.

Bone Marrow Prolotherapy For Modern Medicine

Every person that gets Bone Marrow Prolotherapy their body is a little bit different. Modern medicine is always trying to do some patented procedure, autologous chondrocyte implantation where they’re taking your cells out, putting them in a lab, and doing some patented procedure. Which thank God for that, in the sense that they do make discoveries with that but, I am just a firm believer like Dr. Hemwall before me that simple is best. Let’s just keep it simple, and the body knows best. If you were to take bone marrow out of a person and you were to inject it in situ, in situ means in its natural environment. If you have a cartilage problem in your knee, in situ means we are going to do the whole procedure in your knee. We are not going to take some cells out of your bone marrow then harvest them for weeks or months over here and then inject them. We are going to take your healthy bone marrow cells, then we are going to inject them into your knee, and your knee in situ, in its natural environment, will do the healing that it wants.

 Bone Marrow Prolotherapy – Different Kind Of Cells

Your knee might need different cells than my knee and it is not just cartilage cells, it is immune cells. Prolotherapy is proliferative therapy so; it takes a lot of different kinds of cells to get healing. If you have a meniscus in there that also need to be repaired, you need synovial cells. Why do you need synovial cells? Well synovial cell make the joint fluid. If you just take cartilage cells, lets inject a bunch of cartilage cells in there, well there are just cartilage cells. The cartilage are only nourished by the joint fluid, and maybe your knee needs some more joint fluid so, maybe you need the replication of some synovial cells. You see the body knows best.

As far as my knee, I have what I consider a pretty healthy knee. I have a little bit of chondromalacia so, do I need ten million cartilage cells injected into my knee for healing? No! Take a little bit of bone marrow and inject it in there. Perhaps I just need a little bit of cartilage regeneration and I will be fine. So, in my knee the body knows best. Hopefully it will form a little bit of cartilage cells and get some cartilage growth. Somebody else’s knee, perhaps they don’t have any joint fluid, meaning they don’t have a lot of synovial cells which are the cells that make the joint fluid, the hyaluronic acid. What I think happens, when I take bone marrow out of them and I inject into their knee and their knee needs a lot of joint fluid, that their knee compared to my knee, because their knee needs a bunch of joint fluid, that those stem cells and those other cells will form perhaps for them a lot of synovial cells. Those synovial cells will then make joint fluid.

A patient may say to me “Dr. Hauser you don’t have any proof of that.” In one way the person is right in saying that because I am not going to autopsy them and sacrifice them and see what’s going on in their knee. But me as a doctor I can tell you what a patient tells me. They tell me “Doc, I have less stiffness.” Ok, so how do they have less stiffness? It could be that their joint has more joint fluid. When your joint is all constricted and you don’t have any joint fluid, it is hard for me to push three cc’s of fluid in there. Then when that patient comes in for their forth or fifth visit I can put 10 cc’s of Bone Marrow Prolotherapy or another Prolotherapy solution in their knee. So, obviously something happened and if you have less clicking, less grinding, less stiffness, less pain. At minimum, lets at least agree that there has been some repair in there. Do I really care if it is more joint fluid, more cartilage calls, it is more meniscus? All you really care about is you got back to your activity level and me as a doctor that I have met your expectations.

 Bone Marrow Prolotherapy - Did Prolotherapy Meet Your Expectations

This is one of the questions we ask, especially when we do our studies. Did Prolotherapy meet your expectations? And the resounding answer is “yes.” In over 90% the resounding thing folks say is “yes.” If on a first visit if I think someone is kind of an iffy case I will tell them “I think you are kind of an iffy case.” If somebody is an iffy case, it is a guarded prognosis meaning the joint is so far gone that they are a candidate for joint replacement, but they want to try Prolotherapy then we have an agreement. We are going to try Prolotherapy because in some instances it really still does great work, but if the prognosis is guarded and we tried a few injections and it just didn’t do anything, let’s agree to not try anymore and the person has to get a joint replacement.

I am not against joint replacements. I am not against orthopedic surgery. Let’s try conservative care first because if we can eliminate ninety percent of orthopedic surgeries for just arthritis and other diagnosis that have to do with degeneration, degenerated meniscus, degenerated cartilage, then we should do so. We have an obligation to do so. I think the treatment that has the most promise for the future as far as eliminating orthopedic surgeries is Prolotherapy and I have tried to be one of the doctors to document that in studies that we have published. Prolotherapy has about a 90% success rate, when somebody is a good candidate for Prolotherapy, to eliminate the need for orthopedic surgery.

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What conditions can be treated with Bone Marrow Prolotherapy

What conditions can be treated with Bone Marrow Prolotherapy? It is the same conditions that normal Prolotherapy could used for. Traditionally Prolotherapy is used for ligament and tendon injuries; any kind of ligament sprain, tendon sprain, degenerated tendon, degenerated ligament, torn tendon, torn ligament. We are excited about Prolotherapy as it relates to articular cartilage injuries. There’s folks that have degeneration of the articular cartilage which typically is called chondromalacia. There are people, especially athletes, who have articular cartilage lesions. They will get an arthroscopy and basically a part of the articular cartilage is missing. A certain part of their knee, like the articular cartilage, looks good but because they had a fall or they had a trauma, there might be like a one centimeter part of their articular cartilage missing.

What conditions can be treated with Bone Marrow Prolotherapy – Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation

Traditionally what they have done is Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation, which is ACI. In other words, they would go to a surgeon who would do an arthroscopy. He would take out some cartilage cells, then grow those cartilage cells for a certain specific amount of time. Then the athlete would have a second surgery where they would plant those cartilage cells right on their lesion. The problem is if you look at the results of that procedure, it doesn’t work all that well. What do we see at Caring Medical? I see all the failures of that type of surgery. I know there are folks that procedure has helped and I am glad that the orthopedic surgeons are out there. But I really have a strong feeling that people should try Prolotherapy first. In other words I feel that when people have a musculoskeletal injury, when you have a cartilage injury, that you should try Prolotherapy first and it should be the Prolotherapy physicians referring you to the orthopedic surgeon (if needed). Not that someone should get one, two, three, orthopedic surgeries then we (the Prolotherapy doctors) are seeing them. So, if a person is going to get a meniscus surgery, cartilage surgery, ligament, tendon, arthritis surgery, I feel that they should get an evaluation from a Prolotherapy doctor.

What conditions can be treated with Bone Marrow Prolotherapy – A Study On Labral Tears

If you look at the studies we have published, we have about a ninety percent rate of helping resolve their pain complaints with Prolotherapy and them not needing the surgery. When we first did the analysis as far as meniscus tears and meniscus injuries and whenever we do a study, we hire somebody (to help with the study.) We will hire somebody to review the charts and then call the clients. I don’t know if the results are going to be good or not good. Eventually we are going to do a study on labral tears. Almost every patient that we see with a labral tear gets Prolotherapy and it gets resolved, but I don’t know the specific numbers. So, we will hire somebody like a college student or a pre-med student to look through our charts, review the patients that came here for labral tears, and call them with a specific questionnaire. Well imagine our shock when we did this for MRI-documented meniscal tears and 27 of 28 patients basically resolved their pain complaints with Prolotherapy, and only one out of twenty eight subsequently needed surgery for a meniscal tear. I mean imagine how this would revolutionize meniscal care. If you have a meniscus tear, clearly you should try Prolotherapy prior to getting a surgical procedure.

What conditions can be treated with Bone Marrow Prolotherapy – Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy

As it relates to Bone Marrow Prolotherapy, specifically a doctor like myself would use bone marrow generally only in severe cases like severe cases of articular cartilage injury, or severe degenerative arthritis, or if someone had already failed Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy, or Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy got them fifty percent better and then it seemed like they were not getting any better. Then we might switch to Bone Marrow Prolotherapy. Let me give you an example. I am thinking of a 44 year-old guy who is like six foot three and is an client of ours. He has really significant degenerative arthritis in his right hip. He is an candidate for a hip replacement but, do you really want a 44 year-old getting a hip replacement? He is strongly anti-hip replacement. He’s very much into alternative medicine. So, at his last visit, he has had eight visits so far, and he knew going into it that it was going to be a year’s worth of care. He is very happy, he is back to doing everything, but there is still some kind of hip discomfort. At the last visit we had talked about either going to go to Platelet Rich Plasma Prolotherapy or Bone Marrow Prolotherapy. That would be the sort of case where you would consider going to Bone Marrow Prolotherapy. For more info, please check the link now (What conditions can be treated with Bone Marrow Prolotherapy).

 

What is the goal of Bone Marrow and Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy?

What is the goal of Bone Marrow Prolotherapy? it’s just like any procedure we use Prolotherapy for. It’s just the repair of the injured tissue. The reason to do Bone Marrow Prolotherapy versus other kinds of Prolotherapy would be that you feel like it is going to speed the healing compared to other forms of Prolotherapy. The results with Hackett Hemwall Prolotherapy are phenomenal so, there are going to be a subset of folks, for instance, who have really advanced degenerative arthritis, or they have a specific legion of the articular cartilage, or perhaps they have not healed normally with Hackett Hemwall Prolotherapy. So, with one of those instances we might choose to do Bone Marrow Prolotherapy. I am excited about it, just to have another tool to stimulate healing.

What Is The Goal Of Bone Marrow and Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy – Prolotherapy Solutions

When someone comes in to get an assessment for whether or not they are a candidate for Prolotherapy, if I was a client, I would want to go to a place that does all of the different kinds of Prolotherapy. I feel the most compressive center in the United States to get Prolotherapy is Caring Medical because Caring Medical, from its inception, has basically been doing full time Prolotherapy. You Know Dr. Hauser, which is me, I took over the practice of Dr. Hemwall who, at the time, was considered the world expert in Prolotherapy. Dr. Hemwall had a myriad of Prolotherapy solutions that he used. Obviously he taught me, then we have expanded those Prolotherapy solutions.

What Is The Goal Of Bone Marrow and Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy – Platelet Rich Plasma Treatment

The problem is if you go to a place and all they do is platelet rich plasma treatment, well that’s all they use. With platelet rich plasma it’s only one shot, or two shots. If you have chronic pain, do you think one or two shots of something is going to get rid of your pain when you have a diffuse kind of back pain, or an diffuse kind of shoulder pain or neck pain? One or two shots is not going to do it. I mean Hackett Hemwall Prolotherapy is the most thorough kind of Prolotherapy. When you go to a center like Caring Medical that does it full time, that’s what we do every day. I have been doing it since 1993, treated probably an excess of fifteen thousand patients. I love doing Prolotherapy. I am good at doing Prolotherapy. I study Prolotherapy. I write papers on Prolotherapy. I have written eight books on Prolotherapy. So, to me that would be the kind of center, the kind of place where you would want to get Prolotherapy.

What Is The Goal Of Bone Marrow and Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy – For Athlete

The other thing too is that I am an athlete and I have had basically every injury the patients come in for. You’ve got pelvic problems? I’ve had that. You’ve got TMJ syndrome? I’ve had that. You’ve got a pinched nerve in your neck? I’ve had that. You’ve got SI instability? I’ve had that. You’ve got planter fascia problems? I’ve had that. You’ve got bunion pain? I’ve had that. Almost every pain that I have had, that I have ever had I have used Prolotherapy to resolve it. The proof that I have resolved it is what? you know I have done five IronMan races, a bunch of ultra marathons, two 50 mile ultra marathons, and still work out, swim, bike, run. I can definitely tell you as a client of Prolotherapy, as well as someone who has used Prolotherapy for seventeen years, that Prolotherapy works. Now what Prolotherapy solution specifically do you need for your specific problem? Well you should go to a comprehensive center that does Prolotherapy and it might be what works best for you is Bone Marrow therapy, in other words use the bone marrow cells to stimulate healing for your specific injury.

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How does Caring Medical obtain bone marrow and is it painful?

That’s a great question. How is bone marrow obtained? There are lots of ways to obtain bone marrow but, specifically you are piercing the periosteum, or the outside of the bone, by some method and then you are aspirating, or extracting, the bone marrow from inside the cell. Bone marrow specifically is the spongy material that is inside the bones. Typically, doctors get the bone marrow from either the pelvis, which is near the back, or the tibia bone. Specifically the tibia bone is this long bone that’s the shin bone.

Caring Medical again for the ease of getting the bone marrow we like to use the tibia. The tibia is a very thin bone compared to the back. So, the actual process of obtaining the bone marrow from the tibia is less painful, it can be done within seconds and it actually doesn’t feel much different from normal Prolotherapy and we have been very happy with this method as far as obtaining the bone marrow.

How does Caring Medical Obtain Bone Marrow – Is Prolotherapy Painful

Is the process of obtaining bone marrow painful? People laugh because in the office it is very common for people to ask “Is Prolotherapy painful?” Absolutely Prolotherapy is painful. Is the process of obtaining bone marrow painful? Absolutely it is painful, but I have had bone marrow obtained from me for Bone Marrow Prolotherapy three times actually. Within an hour of this video session I am going to get my fourth bone marrow procedure. I don’t feel like it is fair for me to do a procedure on somebody when I myself have not had the procedure.

How does Caring Medical Obtain Bone Marrow – Why Did You Get The Procedure?

People often ask me “Why did you get the procedure?” Folks don’t realize even though I have done five Iron Man Triathlons I was born with a crooked right foot. So, my right foot turns out and because of that I have some chondromalacia patella, I have a little bit of cartilage wear beneath my knee cap. Having said that, I still run and I have done numerous marathons and ultra marathons. But again, I am trying to be preventative so I can run the rest of my life and be active. I have chosen to get Bone Marrow Prolotherapy because I believe in the procedure. If it were not for the sound of the drill I would not even notice that they were obtaining bone marrow.

How does Caring Medical Obtain Bone Marrow -Prolotherapy For The Bone Marrow

If you have had normal Prolotherapy obtaining the bone marrow feels just like normal Prolotherapy. In other words, you feel a little prick of the skin and the whole process of obtaining the bone marrow the way that we do it literally takes a few seconds. For one second you feel a little pinch when the drill goes through the periosteum, but it does not feel any different than if somebody had regular Prolotherapy. I should say that the area is anesthetized. We use procaine but can use any type of anesthetic. To me I did not really feel it and when I have done it on folks they were astonished on how little pain there actually was. To answer the question, it does hurt but just for a second and for me it hurt a lot less then I thought it would, and it really was not any big deal.

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Why use Bone Marrow Prolotherapy

Why use Bone Marrow Prolotherapy – Know What Prolotherapy Is

A lot of folks have never herd the term Prolotherapy. Just to make it clear, Prolotherapy is a treatment that stimulates the repair injured tissue such as musculoskeletal tissue like ligaments, tendons, cartilage, by inducing the proliferation of cells. So, when we talk about Prolotherapy, we are specifically talking about an injection procedure using substances that stimulates the proliferation of cells to repair tissues like ligaments, tendons, meniscus, or cartilage.

Why use Bone Marrow Prolotherapy – The Most Common Solution

There’s lots of different solution ingredients that are used in Prolotherapy. The most common solution, believe it or not, is just a concentrated amount of dextrose or sugar. That’s the Prolotherapy solution that is most commonly used in Hackett Hemwall Prolotherapy. I was Dr. Hemwall’s associate, so obviously I use Hackett Hemwall Prolotherapy. However, we can use a lot of different Prolotherapy solutions. Some of the solutions that are used in Prolotherapy are combinations of various hormones in them like testosterone or growth hormone. Why would we use those solutions? It’s because ligaments, tendons, cartilage, have receptors for hormones such as testosterone. So, if you inject testosterone or other hormones, it will stimulate those receptors and it causes the proliferation of ligament tissue, tendon tissue, cartilage tissue.

Now we are progressing to the point where now we can inject directly into ligaments, tendons, cartilage tissue cells like stem cells from bone marrow to hopefully speed up the healing process and get even better results. You have to realize that traditional Hackett Hemwall Prolotherapy already gets great results.

Why use Bone Marrow Prolotherapy – The Bone Marrow

At Caring Medical we’re starting to use actual bone marrow to hopefully even improve on the results that we have already gotten. Specifically, bone marrow had a lot of cells that stimulate healing the proliferation of cells. The most common cell that people know is stem cells. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells they are called primitive cells. So, you have this one cell, and the stem cell specifically is a self-renewing cell. It just means that it can keep replicating itself. Just one cell can form hundreds of cells of itself. But specifically, this cell can change into a muscle cell, this cell can change into a ligament cell, cartilage cell, tendon cell. So, just by one cell it can form all these other cells.

Specifically as it relates to Prolotherapy, when we say Bone Marrow Prolotherapy, it means that we are going to use bone marrow cells to stimulate a musculoskeletal tissue to repair. Generally we are talking about cartilage cells. So we would take the bone marrow and inject it into a joint, like the knee joint, to hopefully stimulate the repair of the degenerated cartilage. Then you get new cartilage forming and hopefully that would have a great result for the patient where the patient gets back to all their activities like running, jumping, hiking, and everything else they want.

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Growth Factors

Growth Factors – Know What It Is?

What are growth factors?Why are growth factors important?

What are growth factors? Well in regard to healing, growth factors are the directors. When we talk about Prolotherapy, again Prolotherapy is an injection technique that stimulates the repair of injured musculoskeletal tissue, like ligaments, tendons, cartilage. So, when we inject various substances into these injured areas it is actually the growth factors that come to the area or are injected into the area that actually direct the healing.

Growth Factors – Different Kinds Of Initials

So think of growth factors, like platelet derived growth factor, fibroblastic growth factor, vascular growth factor, BMP, there is all the different kinds of initials and names but, specifically what they do is they direct the healing process. When doctors use bone marrow cells for instance, in Bone Marrow Prolotherapy, stem cells, platelet rich plasma, these solutions have various growth factors in them like platelet derived growth factors. These growth factors speed up the healing process and can stimulate the repair of ligament, tendon, and hopefully cartilage tissue by the induced proliferation of cells. Basically, that is Prolotherapy.

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Do Prolotherapy results last?

Do Prolotherapy Results Last – It’s Ok To Get Booster Treatments?

A common question that I am asked is does the effect of Prolotherapy last. So, in other words, you have some knee arthritis, a little bit of knee arthritis. You get some Prolotherapy and now you are pain free. Patients ask “Doc, am I going to have to get booster treatments?”

Well, typically the answer is “no” but, once the Prolotherapy healing stops in the joint, the joint will start to degenerate at the rate of the rest of your body right? Prolotherapy doesn’t eliminate the aging process. So the point is why don’t you age well? Normally, while you’re getting Prolotherapy, it is a good time to start getting healthy. You start eating right, taking some supplements, exercise. So, generally we just let folks know that you’ve just got to age well.

Do Prolotherapy Results Last – The Best Things To Do

So, if you age well, the pain typically won’t come back and you won’t need further Prolotherapy. But that’s dependent on you doing everything you need to do to age well, which is eating well, getting good sleep, taking some supplements, and regularly exercising. As a person ages, the very best exercise is exercise that has to do with range of motion. Because when you have good range of motion of your joints, it means that the body producing a lot of joint fluid.

Only with motion do you produce joint fluid, for instance, in the shoulder. The joint fluid nourishes the cartilage and often you have to protect the cartilage as you age. Exercises such as bicycle riding, for the lower extremities, is non-pounding and has a lot to do with range of motion of the lower extremities. This also goes for swimming I am a very strong advocate of swimming because swimming you use all the joints.

Do Prolotherapy Results Last – It Is Need To Do Different Activities?

It is non-pounding and you can do it the rest of your life. It doesn’t preclude running, or doing all the other activities. But really, as you age, most people are going to have to cross train a little bit. So, even if they don’t know how to swim, I leaned how to swim as an adult. I would just really encourage people to learn to swim. As long as they do those actives and maintain their range of motion, they typically won’t need Prolotherapy in the future.

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