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Prolo Your Pain Away! Curing Chronic Pain with Prolotherapy

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After spending a lot of money on visiting dentists, oral surgeons, and purchasing a dental appliance that was supposed to allow the joint to heal and fix the problem (which it didn't), I decided to try prolo. After three treatments I could open my jaw far enough to actually be able to yawn again! I have become a firm believer in natural medicine and helping your body heal itself, and prolotherapy does just that. Prolo doesn't involve surgery, which means that you can walk out of the office that day and not be laid up for weeks and months recuperating. Besides...prolo works! Read the book to find out why it works and how people are getting rid of their pain and are regaining their mobility. You'll be glad you did.

Being a musculoskeletal physician doing prolotherapy in my daily practice in Hong Kong, where prolotherapy is still fresh to the public, I give this book an excellent grade in terms of conveying the principles and answering the common questions about prolotherapy to my patients. I believe it will also be particularly useful for young doctors who want to start their prolotherapy practice

I looked at Dr. Hauser's website and watched the videos and read most of what I found there. Then I saw the book and ordered one, read it and ordered another to loan-out to our friends and family. All the information you need to evaluate whether you may be a good candidate for prolotherapy is right here.

The book has a lot information but it is so easy to get around in the book to find what you are looking for. You read a section that pertains to what you want to know and you learn that plus find more related info to lead you to another topic in another section of the book.

My wife and I have read two other older books this year on the same subject but those were nothing like this easy reading very informative book which covers more territory and has the subject much better presented.

My wife had prolotherapy over ten years ago on her elbow and it healed quickly and we had forgotten all about prolotherapy, not even remembering the name prolotherapy until I found Dr. Hauser's website. We we amazed at how many so-called chronic untreated conditions can be treated with very good results using prolotherapy instead of surgery. We have found a local MD who uses the therapy and are now seeing him.

I have had prolotherapy from a different doctor and I think it has helped me with my knees, but proved unhelpful on my shoulder. I wanted to learn more of it and my doc recommended the Hauser's book. I found it helpful but wished it had more science. As I looked into it more, and after having my insurance decline to pay for treatments, I realized there is very little scientific evidence to support prolotherapy.

This book could have done a LOT more to defend prolo if it focused on that issue. Instead, it demanded acceptance with little proof, and (therein not surprisingly) the book was replete with cheesy religious references crammed down your throat. I can forgive that, I have nothing but respect for people who have strength in their convictions, and I am a very spiritual person myself, but it crosses the line when you try to fill gaps in logic/proof with religion. I am told wife Marion injected those references (so says the doc who recommended the book) so I tried to focus on the passages I imagined (the legitimate) doctor (Mr.) Hauser wrote. What I mean by crossing the line is, there are so many dogmatic religious references (especially in comparison to the lack of scientific evidence) that it brings the whole book into question. As I argue with my health insurance provider about paying for prolo, it'd be great to hang my hat on this book to defend prolo, but the entire thing is in question because (at least one of) the authors loses their grasp on reality and logic. For example, how can you take a "scientific" book seriously when on page 281 when describing unknown explanations for pain it actually says "It could be God's purpose for your life at this particular moment to have pain because He wants you first and foremost to acknowledge Him in your life". I mean, really? I thought Dr's were logical and scientific, but to actually suggest that God wants you to be in pain so you can accept him, and to hint that if you don't, you deserve more pain - is ridiculous, closed minded, a cop out, and insulting. It removed most of my FAITH in this book. It hints that people who accept things only on faith with little proof, people easily fooled by snake oil salesmen, THOSE poor chaps are the same weak minded fools who believe prolo can actually induce your bones and ligaments to magically grow together again.

HOWEVER...because prolo did help my knees, and because there is SOME science in here, I still am trying hard to believe in prolo and actually would recommend reading this book. I just wish Ross would have kept Marion and her religious dogma away from the keyboard.

Excellent book on new treatment for arthritic necks, backs,
elbows and knees, etc. I have found a local MD who treats
people using it. Water and sweetening agent is injected into the painful area, and \
the body reacts with inflamation, which stops pain permanently in many cases.
Book states 85-90% success rate. Very little pain, if any, in treatment, and Dr. Ross Hauser, Chicago has thousands of persons who can testify to its success. Helps restore ligaments and tendons that have lost much of their strength over years.