Journal of Prolotherapy
By Peter J. Blakemore, DO The American Academy of Osteopathy presented a Prolotherapy weekend at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNECOM) in Biddeford, Maine from October 7th-9th 2010. The location in southern Maine, right on the Atlantic coast in early autumn, could not have been more beautiful. The course was presented by more »
By Joseph J. Cukla, LPN The Age Management Medicine Group (AMMG) held their annual conference in Las Vegas, November 11-14, 2010. The conference was held at the beautiful M Resort & Spa. AMMG was founded five years ago to provide education and information to healthcare professionals. Their mission statement explains, “The basic tenets of age management more »
By Gary B. Clark, MD, MPA To establish a clinical plan Ask the right question. Identify the right premises. Minimize the variables. And test the outcome. Part II of a series of four1 explains how one may apply scientific reasoning to the daily practice of Prolotherapy in an Orthopedic Medical Clinic. In doing so, this article focuses more »
By David De La Mora, MD Everything started about five years ago, when a patient came to my office in Guadalajara, Mexico with a severe knee pain. She was overweight, which made the problem even worse. Her pain would not let her stand for a long period of time, in her hard work of selling orange juice more »
By Rick Marinelli, ND, MACOM On the idyllic island of Maui, the main attractions are the beautiful surroundings. Majestic Haleakala and the west Maui mountains reaching for the sky, the incredible white and sunny beaches of the south side, the dramatic wind and waves of the north shore, and the distant, mysterious beauty of Hana. People more »
By Mark L. Johnson, MD, FACS The annual teaching conference of the American College of Osteopathic Sclerotheraputic Pain Management (ACOSPM) was held April 8-11 at the beautiful Rancho Bernardo Inn facility in San Diego. As always, this was a very valuable training and education experience. Entitled “Prolotherapy, a Comprehensive Approach,” the conference focused on teaching basic more »
By Gary B. Clark, MD, MPA To make the most appropriate medical decisions, Ask the right questions. To validate the appropriateness of those general decisions, Collect specific confirmatory outcome data. In this first of a four-part series, I outline the logical reasoning behind medical decision making, including Prolotherapy. Part II will explain how to apply such more »
By Wanona Wellspring, DN ABSTRACT Essential oils of Peppermint, Eucalyptus, Lavender and Myrrh contain neuro-depressive qualities for blocking pain as suggested by several studies in recent years. Also unique in their pain-relieving properties are Helichrysum, White Fir, and Douglas Fir. There are several factors in pain sensation resulting from trauma (both physical and emotional), nerve damage, more »
By Gary B. Clark, MD, MPA BEFORE PROLOTHERAPY…THERE WAS SCLEROTHERAPY Case Study: A 52-year-old white male initially presented with an acute, complex tear of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus, confirmed by MRI. Physical therapy and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) treatment suppressed neither his pain nor disability. Then, over the next 2 years, a posterior right more »
By J.V.A. Humphreys, MD In January 2009, I introduced Prolotherapy in the twin island state of Antigua and Barbuda. Optimum Health Clinic Ltd. (my private practice), situated at Belmont (Surgical and Medical) Complex was the site where this dynamic and extremely effective therapy was birthed for the first time in the West Indies. (See Figure 1.) more »
By Gary B. Clark, MD, MPA PROLOTHERAPY OF SPORTS INJURIES Case Study: Roy was the stellar center and captain for the local University ice hockey team. During the third period of a particularly important intercollegiate game, Roy was forcibly body checked by an opposing player and sent crashing into the boards. The result was immediate, excruciating pain more »
By Gary B. Clark, MD, MPA Cervical Spine Whiplash Injuries and Prolotherapy Case Study: On 9 December 1945, General George S. Patton and his chief of staff were being driven in a sedan near Mannheim, Germany, with Patton sitting on the right side of the back seat. A US Army 2½-ton truck, traveling in the opposite more »
By Jörn Funck, MD The journey In 1975, after I finished my clinical education as an orthopedic surgeon, I opened my private office as an orthopedist in Luebeck, Germany. In those days the possibilities to operate were not so good for young orthopedic surgeons. Big operations, like hip replacements, were done only in the large public more »
By Gary B. Clark, MD, MPA ABSTRACT The Hackett-Hemwall Foundation organizes a medical mission training course every March. JOP columnist and Prolotherapist, Gary B. Clark, MD, MPA, reviews the fortieth anniversary of the Hemwall Honduran program, which occurred in March 2009. The HHF course is the largest Prolotherapy training program of its kind. This physician group more »
By Gary B. Clark, MD, MPA Visions of Regenerations to Come “Sometime between the years 1934 and 1936, a random patient with a random disease visited a random doctor and for the first time in recorded human history had a better than 50:50 chance of benefiting from the encounter.” –Anonymous The above-cited quotation still lies sequestered more »
By Gary B. Clark, MD, MPA Chronic elbow pain is of interest to many patients and prolotherapists—basically because it seems so often to resist classic forms of treatment. Chronic elbow pain often comes on slowly as an insidious but, eventually, disabling musculoskeletal malady that plagues the elbows of many individuals from all walks of life. As more »
By Cathy A. Skinkis, MA & Ross A. Hauser, MD Besides our authors and readers commenting on their experiences with Prolotherapy, we hope to notify our readership about some of the more interesting articles published around the globe on Prolotherapy and painful conditions. Ultimately, we all benefit by continuing to educate ourselves on the latest research and publications regarding more »