Prolotherapy Injections to the Pubic Symphysis

Prolotherapy Injections to the Pubic Symphysis – Dr. Huaser At Caring Medical and Rehabilitation Services

My name is Ross Hauser. I am a Medical Doctor and have been utilizing Prolotherapy in the treatment and cure of chronic pain and sports injuries since 1993 here at Caring Medical and Rehabilitation Services. You are about to watch a Prolotherapy procedure being done. During the procedure I am going to do the voice over and explain the actual procedure. Prolotherapy is utilized in the treatment of ligament injuries, tendon injuries, joint degeneration, and meniscus injuries. Though I am using the knee as a model the actual procedure you may be watching may be another area of the body. If you have any questions concerning this video or any of the other Prolotherapy videos please email me at drhauser@caringmedical.com.

Prolotherapy Injections to the Pubic Symphysis – Common Area Treated With Prolotherapy

A common area treated with Prolotherapy is the pubis symphysis. Her you saw me cleaning the area. The pubic symphysis injuries respond very well to Prolotherapy. You can see here that I am doing the pubic symphysis as well as the various ligaments around the pubic symphysis such as the superior pubic ligament and the arcuate pubic ligament. As you probably know the abdominal muscles attach to the pubic symphysis so folks sometimes not only have groin pain but have a little bit of abdominal pain when they have an injury to the pubic symphysis.

Prolotherapy Injections to the Pubic Symphysis – More Condition Respond Well To Prolotherapy

Conditions such as pubalgia, osteitis pubis respond very well to Prolotherapy to the pubic symphysis. Most folks with pelvic floor dysfunction also need Prolotherapy to the pubic symphysis to stabilize the pubic symphysis. Even some cases of low back pain and sacroiliitis problems need stabilization of the pubic symphysis. You can see here that the treatment of the pubic symphysis with Prolotherapy just takes 1 to 1 ½ minutes. The client is not flinching that much because we used an anesthetic cream on the skin to anesthetize the area prior to Prolotherapy. All of the shots go down to the fibro osseous junction onto the pubic symphysis area, pubic tubercles, and there the treatment is done. After the treatment we will clean the area also. For more info, feel free to check out the link (Prolotherapy Injections to the Pubic Symphysis).

Prolotherapy for Runners with Foot and Ankle Injuries

Prolotherapy for Runners with Foot and Ankle Injuries – Most Common Foot Problem

It’s very common for runners or athletes to call us, who are involved with running sports, because they have a foot problem. The most common foot problem we see is either ligament injury around the ankle because that is the most common ligament injury when you sprain your ankle and often ligament injuries don’t heal. About half of ankle sprains, give or take about ten percent, don’t actually heal completely. You might get pain free but, now all of a sudden you have got excessive joint mobility. That excessive joint mobility makes it more likely what? For you to get an ankle sprain in the future. So, you know if the ligament heals completely you wouldn’t have an increased rate of getting a second ankle sprain.

Prolotherapy for Runners with Foot and Ankle Injuries – Reason Why Sports Injuries Often Occur

The reason why sports injuries often occur again and again in athletes is because the tissue wasn’t completely healed. Why wasn’t the tissue completely healed? Because the athlete did RICE: rest, ice, compression, elevation. Taking anti-inflammatories is a big one. Your ankle is hurting and you want to run tomorrow so you take an anti-inflammatory. You would be amazed how often we here of athletes who before they play tennis or whatever, take an anti-inflammatory because their body hurts. Your body is hurting for a reason. Your body is hurting because some tissue is injured. So, the treatment should be, as an athlete, is to get the tissue healed. If you continue to play athletics on an injured joint, even if you can’t feel it because you have taken an anti-inflammatory, its going to further injury, and need further treatments. Eventually, needing more invasive treatments, and is a joint replacement what you want as an athlete?

 Prolotherapy for Runners with Foot and Ankle Injuries – Another Common Injury

Another common injury that we see in runners is plantar fasciitis. But let me say one thing from the get go. Most cases of plantar fasciitis is not true plantar fasciitis. In other words, it is not an inflamed planter fascia. You can touch the planter fascia, and it’s not hot, or inflamed. It’s a degenerated planter fascia. So, right from the get go, it’s not plantar fasciitis. It doesn’t make any sense to be injecting steroids in there, which is just going to further degenerate the planter fascia. What a degenerated planter fascia needs is Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy stimulates the regeneration of the degenerated planter fascia. Generally after one to four visits, the runner is back to running.

The good thing as it relates to sports and Prolotherapy, Prolotherapy doesn’t interfere in the training of the athlete. You can still train while getting Prolotherapy. For more info, feel free to visit the link (Prolotherapy for Runners with Foot and Ankle Injuries).

 

Prolotherapy for Meniscus Injuries

Prolotherapy for Meniscus Injuries – Understand What Is Meniscus

Often I get asked questions in regard to the meniscus. First of all, a lot of athletes don’t even know what the meniscus does for the knee joint. There is a medial meniscus and then there is a lateral meniscus as you can see from this knee model. You can see the knee cartilage and this is the meniscus. The meniscus increases the surface area upon which the femur bone attaches to the joint, so that helps disseminates the pressure on the articular cartilage.

 Prolotherapy for Meniscus Injuries – What Repairs Meniscus?

Most athletes who have a meniscus tear and go through knee surgery, the surgeon will end up taking out the part of the meniscus where the tear is. The reason they take that part out, is the meniscus repairs terribly by itself. But the meniscus repairs great with Prolotherapy. If I was going to say anything in regard to meniscus degeneration or meniscus tears is that you need to induce the torn meniscus to repair. The way you induce the repair is with Prolotherapy.

 Prolotherapy for Meniscus Injuries – The Effectiveness Of Prolotherapy

Prolotherapy is a series of injections that can replace the need for surgery. The injections contain natural substances which accelerate healing and tissue repair. We inject these Prolotherapy solutions into the joint which goes to the meniscus to stimulate the repair. Prolotherapy is very effective at eliminating the pain and disabilities associated with meniscus tears and meniscus degeneration. Caring Medical and I recently published a paper where out of 28 patients who had the meniscus causing pain, 27 of the patients had their pain resolved with Prolotherapy and then got back to there athletic activities and only one out of the 28 actually needed knee surgery.

For more further info, please head over to the following link (Prolotherapy for Meniscus Injuries).

When To Use PRP Injections For Sports Injury Treatment

When To Use PRP Injections For Sports Injury Treatment- One Type Of Prolotherapy

Often I get asked questions in regard to Platelet Rich Plasma because its getting a lot of press. Doctors who do a lot of Prolotherapy, who are experts in Prolotherapy can get almost every condition better by other Prolotherapy solutions. The times that we have to use Platelet Rich Plasma are actually not many. If you don’t do Prolotherapy, you just have Platelet Rich Plasma as one type of injection therapy that you can do, you don’t do the full gamut of Prolotherapy solutions, then you are just going to use Platelet Rich Plasma on everybody. Platelet Rich Plasma is a great tool to have and it’s a vast improvement over cortisone, but a Prolotherapy doctor, who has a lot of experience, will use a lot of different Prolotherapy solutions.

When To Use PRP Injections For Sports Injury Treatment-  What Pain Needs Platelet Rich Plasma?

Traditionally, Platelet Rich Plasma has been used for tendinopathy. Just so you know, before there was Platelet Rich Plasma, I can’t even remember one patient that we couldn’t get better with tendinos is with the normal Prolotherapy solution. I’m happy to use Platelet Rich Plasma and I do use Platelet Rich Plasma regularly. I probably have about as much experience as anybody in the country using Platelet Rich Plasma. But, it’s only a small segment of the chronic pain or acute pain population that needs Platelet Rich Plasma.

I want to talk about the shortcomings of Platelet Rich Plasma because a lot of people don’t realize it. First of all, most pain is not very localized. Most people who have pain have a very big diffused area of pain. Here, I’m just going to show for a model (pulls out model of pelvis), let’s just say somebody has back pain. You have low back pain, the disk area is over here (gesture to top) and this is the sacroiliac. This is a big body area. My entire hand can cover it. If you have pain up here, it’s a humongous area. Normally, the amount of Prolotherapy solution that I would inject into this area as a Hemwall-Hackett Prolotherapy doctor would be on the order of 80 to 100cc’s of solution. Most PRP kits give you about 40cc’s of solution. If an athlete, or a person with chronic pain needs 100cc’s of solution injected into them, Platelet Rich Plasma isn’t going to be enough.

When To Use PRP Injections For Sports Injury Treatment – Platelet Rich Plasma Prolotherapy

Now, if you have a very small discreet area of tendon degeneration, like in your Achilles, yeah, you could do regular Prolotherapy or you could do Platelet Rich Plasma Prolotherapy. But, there are very few people who, even in the shoulder, aren’t going to say their whole shoulder hurts. The person needs the back of the shoulder treated, the top of the shoulder treated, and the front of the shoulder. So in Hemwall-Hackett Prolotherapy, this might be 40cc’s of solution. Most PRP systems give you about 4cc’s. Some of them will give you around 12cc’s of solution. Even for a shoulder, which is a much smaller joint than the whole neck, or the whole back, or the whole knee, it’s not enough solution.

Platelet Rich Plasma is good for very localized, discreet injuries like in a tendon. However, if a person has joint instability, which typically means the person has knee pain and the knee joint is loose, or the sacroiliac joint is loose. For joint instability, you have to use solutions that are very good for the ligaments and I haven’t seen Platelet Rich Plasma be that great for the ligaments. For ligament injuries, I would definitely recommend Hemwall-Hackett Prolotherapy.  For more further info, feel free to visit the link (When To Use PRP Injections For Sports Injury Treatment).

 

How Often and How Many Prolotherapy Treatments Are Needed

How Often and How Many Prolotherapy Treatments Are Needed – How Often Do Patients Get Treated With Prolotherapy?

The typical person gets treated about once a month. When you sprain your ankle, tear a tendon, injure a tendon, and stretch a tendon, the body heals that tendon or ligament over a four to six week period. So the normal inflammatory healing reaction in the body occurs over a four to six week period. So we chose to give a good, aggressive, thorough, Prolotherapy treatment and let the body heal over a four to six week period.

Now there are definitely situations where it is prudent to treat the person once a week once every two week or there even are times where we should treat the person less frequently. But the average person that we see gets Prolotherapy preformed on them every four to six weeks and most people come in every four or five weeks that means about once a month.

How Often and How Many Prolotherapy Treatments Are Needed – How Many Treatment Sessions Of Prolotherapy Injections Does The Average Person Need?

We found over the years, being a Prolotherapy doctor since 1993 and seeing thousands and thousands of clients, plus the experience of Doctor Hemwall over forty years, the average person needs three to six visits to get them over their chronic pain. If somebody comes in with acute pain, such as a sports injury or an injury that just recently happened, typically one to three visits Prolotherapy injection visits are needed. But for the average person that comes in, it is three to six visits. Now if somebody has bone on bone arthritis or a really degenerated joint, that is likely going to take a year worth of care. This means that they are going to be seen once a month for twelve months. I can say that when someone comes in to see me in Oak Park at Caring Medical, I generally tell them on the first visit about the number of Prolotherapy sessions that they should expect to get them to their goals.

How Often and How Many Prolotherapy Treatments Are Needed – Goals Of Prolotherapy

In other words, on the first visit we would discus what are their goals are with Prolotherapy: is it just to get out of pain, is it to get back to running, is it to do a marathon, is it just to do shopping. Depending on their goals and type of sports injury or state of chronic pain, typically I can tell them about the number of sessions they will likely need of Prolotherapy. For more info concerning Prolotherapy, head over to the next link (How Often and How Many Prolotherapy Treatments Are Needed).

 

Prolotherapy Injections to the Shoulder

Dr. Hauser Illustrate  Prolotherapy Injections to the Shoulder

Here we are going to illustrate Prolotherapy of the shoulder. We are first going to do an intra-articular shoulder joint injection and sometimes we will do that with the client sitting up. Here the client is lying down on the table. As you can see, the client is very relaxed and the procedure itself will take about 1 min and 30 seconds. The client and will commonly get into conversation. Intra-articular joint injections are very important when there is joint degeneration or a labral tear. Here I am treating the acromiolclavicular ligament and the acromioclavicular joint and this is needed in folks who have pain in the shoulder or they have clicking in the shoulder. This is common is swimmers. Even I get that condition sometimes.

Prolotherapy Injections to the Shoulder – Treating The Anterior Shoulder

Here we are treating the anterior shoulder where such structures attach as the supraspinatus tendon. Commonly we see rotator cuff tears and rotator cuff degeneration and these conditions typically respond very quickly and very well to Prolotherapy. Here we are treating the medial part of the shoulder which is where such structures like the glenohumeral ligament attach. Anyone with shoulder instability or pain in that area typically needs this structure injected. As you can see the procedure goes very quickly and the client is very comfortable. The whole procedure is done. For more additional info about Prolotherapy, head over to the following link (Prolotherapy Injections to the Shoulder).

Prolotherapy Injections to the Ribs

Prolotherapy Injections to the Ribs – Know About Rib Pain

Rib pain is a very common condition that I see in the office. Most folks forget that we’re always breathing, so if you get a rib injury or you get an injury to one of the muscles attached onto the ribs, often it doesn’t heal well, because you’re breathing all the time, even during sleep. These injuries to the ribs or the muscle attachment of the ribs normally don’t heal very well. This particular client is prone, or facedown, on the table. As you can see, they’re tolerating the Prolotherapy procedure very well, often we’re talking during the procedure. Specifically, we’re treating the rib angles and where the erector spinae muscles attach to the ribs. Also, I could treat the facet joints or the areas where the ribs attach to the vertebrae.

Prolotherapy Injections to the Ribs – It Has Pain Or Symptoms?

This particular client didn’t have pain or symptoms that made me think that was part of the problem. This is probably her third or fourth visit. She’s responding very, very well. As you can see the procedure is done very quickly. I’m putting my fingers between the ribs which insures safety for the client. A lot of the attachments of the erector spinae muscles, including the iliocostalis thoracis and the longissimus thoracis are being treated here. As you can see, the procedure is done very quickly even though there are a lot of shots being done. Any muscle, tendon, or ligament attachment can be treated in the human body. Now this client is done. For more info about Prolotherapy, feel free to visit the link (Prolotherapy Injections to the Ribs).

 

Prolotherapy treatment to the Pubic Symphysis

Prolotherapy Treatment To The Pubic Symphysis – What Is Prolotherapy?

My name is Ross Hauser. I am a Medical Doctor and have been utilizing Prolotherapy in the treatment and cure of chronic pain and sports injuries since 1993 here at Caring Medical and Rehabilitation Services. You are about to watch a Prolotherapy procedure being done. During the procedure I am going to do the voice over and explain the actual procedure. Prolotherapy is utilized in the treatment of ligament injuries, tendon injuries, joint degeneration, and meniscus injuries. Though I am using the knee as a model the actual procedure you may be watching may be another area of the body. If you have any questions concerning this video or any of the other Prolotherapy videos please email me at drhauser@caringmedical.com.

 

Prolotherapy treatment to the Pubic Symphysis – Know More About The Pubic Sumphysis

A common area treated with Prolotherapy is the pubic symphysis. Her you saw me cleaning the area. The pubic symphysis injuries respond very well to Prolotherapy. You can see here that I am doing the pubic symphysis as well as the various ligaments around the pubic symphysis such as the superior pubic ligament and the arcuate pubic ligament. As you probably know the abdominal muscles attach to the pubic symphysis so folks sometimes not only have groin pain but have a little bit of abdominal pain when they have an injury to the pubic symphysis. Conditions such as pubalgia, osteitis pubis respond very well to Prolotherapy to the pubic symphysis. Most folks with pelvic floor dysfunction also need Prolotherapy to the pubic symphysis to stabilize the pubic symphysis. Even some cases of low back pain and sacroiliitis problems need stabilization of the pubic symphysis. You can see here that the treatment of the pubic symphysis with Prolotherapy just takes 1 to 1 ½ minutes. The client is not flinching that much because we used an anesthetic cream on the skin to anesthetize the area prior to Prolotherapy. All of the shots go down to the fibro osseous junction onto the pubic symphysis area, pubic tubercles, and there the treatment is done. After the treatment we will clean the area also. For more info, head over to the next link (Prolotherapy Treatment To The Pubic Symphysis).

Prolotherapy Long Term Results

It all started in 1964 when I was having back problems for a number of years with no help. Dr. Frank Mayfield, who was the president of the American Medical Association and developed all the instruments for brain surgery, recommended after a thorough examination that I try Prolotherapy, which I had never heard of. He gave me a list of the Prolotherapy doctors. On that list was Dr. Hemwall, and I found out that he was the one that taught all the other Prolotherapy doctors and I said “that’s the one for me.”

Prolotherapy Long Term Results – Dr. Hemwall

We immediately made an appointment with Dr. Hemwall to see him and the minute we did we were impressed. He was also Christian and that impressed us and prayed for us. At the same time he started giving me injections. The day I arrived for my first injection, I flew in a plane because I could not sit in a car. I was almost bed ridden when he did this. Since then I have had numerous Prolotherapy injections over the years with great results and it has been a wonderful change in my life. As a matter of fact, just recently at age eighty six I just fished for five hours wading across stream and climbed up sixty four flights of steps with no pain. It has been highly successful and I realize that it may not be for everyone, but it certainly was for me.

 Prolotherapy Long Term Results-Why Dr.Hauser Studied Prolotherapy?

My injuries probably started when I was weight lifting and ruined all those ligaments. Prolotherapy has changed my whole life, and today I am now with Dr. Hauser who studied under Dr. Hemwall. He has followed through with the same success rate so I feel that for anyone who has a back problem, surgery probably is not a good answer. As a matter of fact, Dr. Mayfield told me that he only had a fifty percent success rate with surgeries and he said “that is not good enough” and that is why he recommend Prolotherapy. I am sitting here right this minute with no pain and I can tell you without hesitation that Prolotherapy is not a one time treatment but neither is any other procedure a one time treatment. You may have to come back a number of occasions and in my case my neck was totally healed after three series of injections which can eliminate the pain that kept me awake for weeks. I was recommended to have surgery on my shoulder for my rotator cuff I canceled it and instead I had four injections to my shoulder and that was many years ago and I have had no problems.

 Prolotherapy Long Term Results- How Dr. Hauser Changed By Prolotherapy?

I am sold on Prolotherapy and you will be too. Be patient and pay attention to what the doctor tells you afterwards. Unfortunately, many doctors don’t know about this. I cannot understand it unless you look at the surgery bills and maybe that is the answer. Believe me, try Prolotherapy. It can change your whole life as it changed mine. It is wonderful I can do almost anything with very few restrictions and I am now eighty six years-old and people tell me that I look better today than I did twenty years ago. I have been married to a great gal for fifty nine years. There: I am Lyman Wine, born on April 1, 1923. I have watched my weight, I eat properly, and I take vitamin supplements. I am telling you try Prolotherapy and ninety percent of the time you will praise the Lord you did.

For more info about Prolotherapy, feel free to visit the link (Prolotherapy Long Term Results).

 

Prolotherapy Injections To The Chest

Dr. Hauser Illustrate Prolotherapy Injections To The Chest

Here I’m going to illustrate Prolotherapy to the chest, specifically to the ribs where the ribs attach to the sternum. This is a very common condition. The pain in this area that the person comes to our office with can be severe. Here, as you can see, I’m doing Prolotherapy injections where the ribs attach to the sternum. This particular client was tender on both sides, so we’ll do many of the rib attachments on the front, both on the left side and the right side. As you can see, the procedure is very well tolerated, and it goes very quickly. Most people don’t realize that the ribs have two attachments on the front of the chest, they attach to cartilage and that cartilage attaches to the sternum. Specifically here we’re treating the costosternal junctions.

Prolotherapy Injections To The Chest- It Is Done Quickly?

They can be done very safely and very quickly. Often clients will get this area manipulated (for instance, by a chiropractor or osteopathic doctor). If that doesn’t cause healing, then I think a good option for the client is Prolotherapy. We treat a lot of patients here with this kind of pain. As you can see, the person is tolerating this procedure well. We’re talking and they did great. For more info about Prolotherapy, please head over to the following link (Prolotherapy Injections To The Chest).