Prolotherapy for injuries - does it work?

[Grahf1]

Anyone here try it or know someone who tried it? What was your/his/her experience?

 

[Delinquent]

Zyglamail has been preaching the healing abilities of that for a while. He had some great results from what I remember him saying.

 

[Grahf1]

Yeah I remember reading about zygmail's experiences with it, but I want some more stories.

I mean, you never know when some one person might just be working in it and wants to promote it everywhere.

 

[Zyglamail]

I had ever worsening tendonits in my left elbow and just a generally achy left shoulder. I had seen the normal doc about but she was of no help, suggested I quite lifting but told her it wasnt going to happen. It was so bad simply pushing open a door at a store or something left my elbow throbbing for hours. I took a couple weeks off lifting and took tons of ibuprofin and naproxin in hopes of helping it but within a week of going back to training I was in agony again.

I went in for prolo and would take the end of the week of that I got treatment, usually a wed or thursday. You need a couple days to rest after treatment cause it does leave you quite sore. Then the following week I was back in the gym. The whole time my elbow and to a lesser degree my shoulder just kept getting better. Now I would say its at 99% after I think it was 5 treatments. Treatments are about 4 weeks apart so its not a quick fix, but it is a fix and I would do it again if need be.

 

[Grahf1]

A fix? I read that its just something that triggers a natural healing process.

 

[deanosig]

PROLO

i'VE HAD SOME SOME IN MY LEFT LEG, RIGHT SHOULDER.
IT SEEMED TO HELP GET RIDE OF THE PAIN. IT IS WHAT THE ABOVE SAID AFTER 5 TREATMENTS IT GETS BETTER. A PHYSIATRIST
INJECTS AROUND THE LIAGMENTS AND TENDONS WITH A SUGAR SOLUTION. FAKES AN INJURY. THE BODY LAYS DOWN MAST CELLS WHICH CONVERT TO WHAT EVER TISSUE YOU NEED. IE LIAGMENT
THE JOINT GETS STRONGER. I AM WONDERING IF SOMEONE HAS DONE GEAR AS WELL,AND HAS IT HELPED.

 

[40butpumpin]

It definitely works, I've had it done. In fact, for many injuries/problems it's the ONLY thing that really works. The tough part is finding a doc in your area that does it.

 

[Grahf1]

After 5 treatments it gets better? Thats 5 months at the earliest! How serious was your injury?

My injury is nothing that gets in the way too much in my normal life, I just can't use much strength in my left arm. I don't feel pain unless I move my arm near its flexibility limit.

 

[Grahf1]

ttt

 

[Zyglamail]

After 5 treatments it gets better? Thats 5 months at the earliest! How serious was your injury?

My injury is nothing that gets in the way too much in my normal life, I just can't use much strength in my left arm. I don't feel pain unless I move my arm near its flexibility limit.

As you stated it triggers the bodies own healing and tendon/ligiment damage takes a long time to heal. On a scale of 1-10 on how I would rate my injury as far as pain and effect it had on my dialy life I would have rated it a 9+ (10 being worst). I couldnt even curl 20lbs the pain was so bad.

It seems like a long time, but what are your options? It slowly heals the whole time and improves week by week.

 

[40butpumpin]

After 5 treatments it gets better? Thats 5 months at the earliest! How serious was your injury?

My injury is nothing that gets in the way too much in my normal life, I just can't use much strength in my left arm. I don't feel pain unless I move my arm near its flexibility limit.

I had an noticible improvement after the very first treatment and a HUGE improvement after the second. I think I went 3 or 4 weeks between treatments. I continued to work out through treatments other then the first few days after treatment. So down time from bb'ing was minimal. As far as I'm concerned the stuff's like a miracle, as has already been stated I also couldn't lift anything without severe pain before the treatments.

 

[Grahf1]

Sounds good.

So how did you guys go about finding a real legit doctor for prolotherapy? From my experience, 90% of the doctors I go to are either quacks or just don't care. I'm really careful these days about which doctors i visit so I don't waste money.

I live in the South Bay(in LA county) in CA by the way, so any suggestions for doctors around that area would be much appreciated.

 

[Zyglamail]

start at prolotherapy.com I think they have a search engine, there are only 2 in my state that I know of, hopefully you will be as lucky. Additionally there are some books on prolo, one is called "prolo your pain away" which has a list of docs in it as well. Prolo docs usually think a bit outside the box and are more geared toward sports injuries and such.

 

[Grahf1]

DOH!

I looked at prolotherapy.com. they have 2 in CA. one is 6 hours away, the other is over and hour away.

I called this number listed on the site for more info, but they said there is a $10 charge just for if they tell you a list of prolo specialists around your area!!