{"id":19,"date":"2010-06-27T05:44:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T05:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2022-05-04T04:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:07:18","slug":"prolotherapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Prolotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prolotherapy is a method of treatment for chronic pain that occurs as a result of looseness in the supporting ligaments and tendons around joints of the body.&nbsp; This is not a new treatment method.&nbsp; The reference textbook was published by Dr. Hackett of Canton, Ohio in 1956.&nbsp; My personal training was obtained by another patriarch of Prolotherapy, Dr. Gus Hemwall, a contemporary and friend of Dr. Hackett.&nbsp; I have been doing Prolotherapy since 1990.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In actuality, Prolotherapy is the only true treatment for damaged ligaments and tendons.&nbsp; When a ligament is loose, generally as a result of injury, the muscle contracts to make up for the lack of support that comes from the damaged ligaments.&nbsp; This contraction is really a muscle spasm and causes pain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prolotherapy consists of an injection series that&nbsp;initiates the healing process resulting in the stabilization of the joint.&nbsp; This of course markedly reduces or eliminates chronic pain.&nbsp; Generally, the need for Prolotherapy comes as a result of the lack of proper healing of a joint after injury.&nbsp; Either the patient does not allow an adequate time for the ligaments to heal after injury, which may take up to 6-8 weeks, or following an injury, an anti-inflammatory medication like Aleve or Motrin&nbsp;was used.&nbsp; Inflammation is part of the natural healing process and when anti-inflammatory medications are used following a musculoskeletal injury, this healing process is diminished or eliminated.&nbsp; Thus, we are left with loose ligaments, instability, and pain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/?page_id=21\">More on Prolotherapy<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Prolotherapy is a method of treatment for chronic pain that occurs as a result of looseness in the supporting ligaments and tendons around joints of the body.&nbsp; This is not a new treatment method.&nbsp; The reference textbook was published &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/?page_id=19\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}