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Prolotherapy For Chronic Pain Or Sports Injuries

  Qualified physicians perform prolotherapy by injecting mildly irritating substances directly into injured tissue, which stimulates regeneration. Individuals having arthritis, sports or work related injuries, or chronic pain may benefit from this type of treatment. Therapists use the treatment method for encouraging healing of ailing ligaments, joints, muscles and tendons in many different regions of the body. The number of treatments each patient requires varies according to individual circumstances. After enduring injury, patients often receive over-the-counter or prescribed anti-inflammatory medications along with hot/cold treatments and possibly physical therapy. Some require surgical interventions. Even with extensive treatment, patients may not escape experiencing pain or decreased mobility. The alternative treatment sometimes called Regenerative Injection Therapy, often remedies these situations and provides long-term relief. If you need to Prolotherapy doctors near m ...

Stem Cell Therapy For The Heart - Hype or Hope?

  The stem cell therapy is constantly emerging and there are newer studies every day. Let's familiarize ourselves with it. What are stem cells? Stem cells are a unique type of cells which can cater to treating various diseases. They also have the ability to differentiate themselves into one or more types of cells. While treating an injury or a disease, stem cell undergoes cell division and gives rise to one daughter stem cell and one progenitor cell. A progenitor cell form itself into a fully differentiated state, before that it's just an intermediate cell type. Stem cells have different types based on their origin such as embryonic stem cells (ESCs) or as adult stem cells (ASCs). How is a normal heart cell? A human heart has the tendency to grow or renew itself. The number of hearing cells keeps on increasing while the baby is still located in the womb only. Along with the increase in our age the size of heart cells increases which becomes a deciding factor in determining the ...

What is Prolotherapy?

"When I was forty years old, I was diagnosed in two separate neurological clinics as having intractable [incurable] pain... It was by chance (later) I learned that Gustav A. Hemwall, M.D., a practitioner in the suburbs of Chicago, was an expert in prolotherapy. When I asked him if he could cure my pain, he asked me to describe it. When I had done the best I could, he replied, 'There is no such pain. Do you mean a pain...?' Then he continued to describe my pain much better than I could. When I said, 'That's it exactly,' he said, 'I can fix you.' To make a long story short, my intractable pain was not intractable and I was remarkably improved to the point where my pain ceased to be a problem," reports C. Everett Koop, MD, former US Surgeon General. Do you suffer from the pain of arthritis, sports injury, and other joint problems? Did your doctors tell you, "There is nothing more we can do; you have to learn to manage your pain?" If they did...