{"id":21,"date":"2010-06-27T05:46:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T05:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2022-05-04T04:06:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:06:42","slug":"mechanism-of-act","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/?page_id=21","title":{"rendered":"Prolotherapy &#8211; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<strong>Are you a candidate for Prolotherapy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are three indicators, that if present, are strong support for Prolotherapy offering help to patients suffering from chronic pain.<strong> &nbsp;First-<\/strong> if there is a history of injury, even years before the onset of pain; <strong>Second- <\/strong>joint manipulation provides temporary relief of pain, even if only for a few hours; <strong>Third- <\/strong>a positive examination by a trained Prolotherapist.&nbsp; If these three criteria are met there is a very high probability that Prolotherapy will result in a significant reduction or elimination of chronic pain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What kind of chronic pain can be treated?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Practically, wherever a joint can be injured, it can be treated with Prolotherapy.&nbsp; However, common problem areas treated are; <strong>whiplash injury, chronic low back pain, shoulder pain, arthritis, tennis elbow, plantar fasciitis, chronic knee, &nbsp;ankle pain, and TMJ dysfunction <\/strong>to name a few.&nbsp; The patients that I see for these complaints have generally seen many other doctors and on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being severe pain, they are all above a 5.&nbsp; Yet, with that history, most see significant improvement from Prolotherapy.&nbsp; Also, the length of time since the injury is not a limiting factor to restarting the healing process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mechanism of Action<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Multiple injections are given in and around the injury site with a very safe solution of dextrose and lidocaine.&nbsp; The solution at the injury site causes a low-grade inflammation to occur which the body recognizes as a new injury.&nbsp; This inflammation re-starts the healing process that initially was halted by anti-inflammatory medication or when not enough time was given for adequate healing at the time of injury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/?page_id=34\">More on Prolotherapy<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Are you a candidate for Prolotherapy? There are three indicators, that if present, are strong support for Prolotherapy offering help to patients suffering from chronic pain. &nbsp;First- if there is a history of injury, even years before the onset of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/?page_id=21\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132,"parent":19,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/164"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaeladamsdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}