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Prolo Your Back Pain Away! Curing Chronic Back Pain with Prolotherapy

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Largely as a result of reading this informative book, I undertook prolotherapy for "severe degenerative disc disease" in in the L5-S1 area. It was a last ditch effort to head off a spinal fusion operation.

This book and the glowing preface by Dr. C. Everett Koop gave me the courage to persist through early weeks of an 8-treatment, 6-mos process--which turned out to be minimally painful after the first session or so. So far, four months into treatment, I am very much improved. I am lucky to live near Santa Barbara, home of the offices of one of the researchers cited in the book.

I learned a great deal from the book about the nature of the healing process--a lot of which is counter to popular opinion.

To anyone considering prolo-therapy: read this book and go to someone who practices the procedures all day long.

Prolo-therapy is certainly a viable option. The concern should be to find a skilled practitioner.

This book opened my eyes to a whole new world of back pain treatment. After 15 years of chronic back pain ranging from mild to incapacitating, I was running out of options. Back bracing, ice, anti-inflamatories, and cortisone shots only left me in worse shape. After reading this book, I had a consultation for Prolotherapy. Immediate relief was forthcoming after the first treatment. After receiving 4 treatments of prolotherapy, I am 90% free of back pain.

Read this book and get yourself educated in how to take charge of your back pain.

I had Prolo Therapy done on my neck. I suffered from pain 24/7 from 5 flattened vertabrae in my neck. I never thought I would be able to do anything for the pain. I spent a fortune on chiropractors, and quack cures. I was tremendously blessed to find out about Prolo Therapy. Within four months of treatment I was pain free, and that was 5 years ago. I am so greatful for this treatment that words fail me. I went on to have it done on my rotator cuffs and got the same great result. It's a miracle and blessing.

This book had some valuable information on the subject, however, I was offended and appalled by the religious propaganda and shameless self promotion contained within. It made me wonder how helpful prolotherapy REALLY is, or if the authors are just trying to convince people to get business.

I struggled with major chronic back pain for 2+ years. I went to numerous doctors and tried physical therapy (2 different therapists), massage therapy, chiropractic care (2 different chiropractors), and even accupuncture. Nothing worked. I thought I was doomed until prolotherapy.

The book is an okay read. I think the author goes a little over the top. But it gives you a basic understanding of what prolotherapy is, why it works, why other things might not work or make things worse. It is written with a lay person in mind rather than a doctor, so don't be afraid of a bunch of mumble-jumble.

Prolotherapy itself gets 5 stars (or more), but I downgraded because much of the information in the book can be found on the web. I still bought the book and read it. If you are unsure or curious about prolotherapy, it is worth the read.

I have had back problems for ten years now. The pain has often been incapacitating. During that whole time, the only real diagnosis I've ever received was "low back pain" - not particularly elucidating. Then last year, after surgery for an unrelated condition, my back got worse than ever. Rather than abating after a week or two as had been the case previously, the pain raged. It never went away and was now much worse than anything I'd ever had and included sciatic type pains down my legs which were nearly unbearable. I couldn't walk more than a few steps before the pain stopped me. Compounding the situation was the fact that I was unable to take any pain medication.

In my search for healing, I went to a massage therapist who recommended my considering prolotherapy. Having never heard of it, I checked and found this book.

This book is most informative. I now have a diagnosis - SI joint instability - after ten years and even better than that, I have a treatment plan. So far, I have undergone the first prolo treatment. Trust me, the treatments can hurt but it isn't any where near as bad as the back pain I've endured. And the best part is that I am beginning to walk again, something I could barely do just a month ago.

Dr. Hauser explains the history of prolotherapy and the actual prolo session in detail. There are also diagrams of the referral patterns caused by weak ligaments. Often what is thought to be sciatic pain is merely referral pain from an injured ligament. Dr. Hauser also explains why typical treatments (ice, anti-inflammatories, rest) actually cause MORE problems and what should be done instead. This is a real cure, not just a treatment that will have to be done over and over again.

IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO CONSIDER SURGERY FOR YOUR BACK, PLEASE READ THIS BOOK FIRST.

Don't go through this painful series of injections before ruling out the numerous causes of back and lower extremity pain that it simply won't touch. The prolo doctors don't turn many people away - after all, it "might" work! Right! This is a hundred painful shots in the dark. Sometimes it works for people, and of course they give glowing reviews. Not me. I have arachnoiditis and this type of stuff is not a good idea - maybe no direct harm, but that's not 100% clear either.