[caption id="attachment_201" align="alignright" width="221" caption="PRP at Advanced Wellness Center."][/caption] Comment: Public awareness of PRP or Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy has been increasing this year following the news of Pittsburgh Steelers Hines Ward receiving an injection which allowed him to play in the super bowl with an MCL...
A Promising Treatment for Athletes in Their Own Blood. By ALAN SCHWARZ Published: February 16, 2009 Two of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ biggest stars, Hines Ward and Troy Polamalu, used their own blood in an innovative injury treatment before winning the Super Bowl. At least one major league pitcher,...
Pittsburgh Steeler wide receiver Hines Ward did in fact have a platelet rich plasma (PRP) treatment. This was confirmed by BloodCure.com late Monday. He was apparently treated with PRP for a medial collateral ligament (MCL) sprain. The specific form of PRP has yet to be...
[caption id="attachment_181" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="We use the Class 4 laser because it is supperior to other classes!"][/caption] Spinal Cord Injury and Laser Therapy Light Therapy alters gene expression after acute spinal cord injury K.R. Byrnes1, R.W. Waynant2, I.K. Ilev2, B. Johnson1, Pollard H. 1, Srivastava M.1, Eidelman O.1, Huang,...
Prolotherapy is injection of any substance that acts as a ‘growth factor,’ that is, which promotes growth of normal cells, tissues, or organs...
At the time of his first visit what was most bothersome was low back and hip pain, right greater than left near the SI joint. This increased with prolonged standing and sitting. Secondly, his work as a dentist required him to be twisted in a...
On average 18 months following their last Prolotherapy session, patients were contacted and asked numerous questions in regard to their levels of pain and a variety of physical and psychological symptoms, as well as activities of daily living, before and after their last Prolotherapy treatment....
PROLOTHERAPY RESEARCH Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Hooper RA, Ding M. Retrospective case series on patients with chronic spinal pain treated with dextrose prolotherapy. J Altern Complement Med. 2004 Aug;10(4):670-4. Advanced Spinal Care Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. OBJECTIVES: To determine the clinical benefits of dextrose prolotherapy in...
PROLOTHERAPY RESEARCH Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine Reeves KD, Hassanein KM. Long-term effects of dextrose prolotherapy for anterior cruciate ligament laxity. Altern Ther Health Med. 2003 May-Jun;9(3):58-62. CONTEXT: Use of dextrose prolotherapy. Prolotherapy is defined as injection that causes growth of normal cells or tissue. OBJECTIVE: Determine...
[caption id="attachment_42" align="alignright" width="103" caption="Wellington Chen, M.D."][/caption] The patient is a 45-year-old female with complaints of right shoulder pain for three weeks after bench pressing and feeling a crunch. An MRI demonstrated a tear of the middle supraspinatus (rotator cuff) along with bursitis (fluid build up around...