Through the years I have encountered many patients who have been diagnosed with Degenerative Disc Disease. One treatment that by far help correct the origins of the problem is Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy addresses the ligament instabilities that lead to conditions like degenerative disc disease and ultimately help to correct such problems and pain.
Here is brief description from prolotherapy.com:
"Many patients are distressed at being told that they are suffering from one or more degenerated discs. This suggests an irreversible and crippling phenomenon. The term "degenerated" should be discarded because disc degeneration is universal as age advances, and often causes no symptoms. There must be other structures in the back that are causing the symptoms. The structures causing back pain are most often the ligaments.
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The low back is composed of muscles and ligaments. The posture is held erect by four sets of muscles. There are also strong ligaments that go from the vertebrae to the ilium (iliolumbar ligaments), along with the ilium to sacrum (the sacroiliac ligaments).
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Cumulative trauma either by sports participation or heavy labor vocations over the course of years can result in small tears of these ligaments. One major trauma or injury can also be of such severity that healing never occurred. Since the ligaments do not heal, the intervertebral discs do not have the support that they need. This is why there is such a high degree of degenerative disc disease in the lower back, which is essentially 100 percent by age 46. Degenerative discs are the result of ligament laxity or instability in the lumbar vertebral segments. The instability and ligament laxity cause the chronic low back pain and send patients by the droves to chiropractors. Manipulation is helpful to realign the vertebrae, but does nothing to regenerate the damaged ligament. Prolotherapy must be given to repair the ligament tissue to allow the vertebrae to stay in place permanently.
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Prolotherapy can be the treatment of choice for treating low back pain. Injections are typically given into the ligaments connecting the vertebra, along with injections into the ligaments between the ilium and sacrum. This helps to tighten the connections between the pelvis and lumbar spine and assists the muscles in providing stability to the back. It is amazing how many people end up avoiding surgery once they have Prolotherapy because Prolotherapy gets rid of the pain and stabilizes the back. Unfortunately, back surgery usually causes the muscles and ligaments to become even weaker. A surgery that was supposed to strengthen the area actually ends up weakening it to the point that the non-surgerized back is stronger than the back that was surgically repaired."
For more information on prolotherapy and to find a doctor in your area:
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Through the years I have encountered many patients who have been diagnosed with Degenerative Disc Disease. One treatment that by far help correct the origins of the problem is Prolotherapy. Prolotherapy addresses the ligament instabilities that lead to conditions like degenerative disc disease and ultimately help to correct such problems and pain.
Here is brief description from prolotherapy.com:
"Many patients are distressed at being told that they are suffering from one or more degenerated discs. This suggests an irreversible and crippling phenomenon. The term "degenerated" should be discarded because disc degeneration is universal as age advances, and often causes no symptoms. There must be other structures in the back that are causing the symptoms. The structures causing back pain are most often the ligaments.
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The low back is composed of muscles and ligaments. The posture is held erect by four sets of muscles. There are also strong ligaments that go from the vertebrae to the ilium (iliolumbar ligaments), along with the ilium to sacrum (the sacroiliac ligaments).
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Cumulative trauma either by sports participation or heavy labor vocations over the course of years can result in small tears of these ligaments. One major trauma or injury can also be of such severity that healing never occurred. Since the ligaments do not heal, the intervertebral discs do not have the support that they need. This is why there is such a high degree of degenerative disc disease in the lower back, which is essentially 100 percent by age 46. Degenerative discs are the result of ligament laxity or instability in the lumbar vertebral segments. The instability and ligament laxity cause the chronic low back pain and send patients by the droves to chiropractors. Manipulation is helpful to realign the vertebrae, but does nothing to regenerate the damaged ligament. Prolotherapy must be given to repair the ligament tissue to allow the vertebrae to stay in place permanently.
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Prolotherapy can be the treatment of choice for treating low back pain. Injections are typically given into the ligaments connecting the vertebra, along with injections into the ligaments between the ilium and sacrum. This helps to tighten the connections between the pelvis and lumbar spine and assists the muscles in providing stability to the back. It is amazing how many people end up avoiding surgery once they have Prolotherapy because Prolotherapy gets rid of the pain and stabilizes the back. Unfortunately, back surgery usually causes the muscles and ligaments to become even weaker. A surgery that was supposed to strengthen the area actually ends up weakening it to the point that the non-surgerized back is stronger than the back that was surgically repaired."
For more information on prolotherapy and to find a doctor in your area:
http://www.getprolo.com
Dr.Susan
September 24, 2008 - 6:04amhttp://www.lakeshorewellnesscenter.com
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