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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...