Prolotherapy and Stem Cells
As I have commented on before, joint pain is almost always multifactorial. While there may be arthritis or cartilage loss, such as knee meniscus tears, these problems are often worsened by, or even blamed for pain caused by muscle and tendon/ligament problems.
An example that came through our Stem Cell treatment clinic recently illustrates this:
A 46 year old male with painful cartilage loss and meniscus tears on his knee MRI. When time was taken to examine him, his leg muscles had trigger points, which we treated with IMS. His lateral collateral ligament (LCL) was also tender. This was treated with prolotherapy injection. Prolotherapy involves injecting an injured ligament or tendon with a substance that triggers inflammation. The patient’s painful ligament has a chronic low level of inflammation that causes pain, but does not heal the problem. The increased inflammation from the prolo “tips the scales”, so to speak, and causes the body to trigger it’s healing mechanism.
Our patient returned three weeks after prolo with a significant decrease in his outer knee pain. The stem cell injections he’ll receive as an alternative to knee meniscus surgery, will have a significantly better chance to heal his cartilage defects as a result.
This makes sense, that your own body can heals itself if the brain gets the (Right) signal to repair itself. With stem cells the body responds is to heal, so that the pain will decrease and return to normal, and not chase ghost pain signals.
I have degenerative arthritis and a bone spur, so now the doctor wants to do a hip replacement–and I am frightened.
Can this procedure help me in any way?
Thanks so much,
Patti Pfister
pattipfister@gmail.com
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