Have you heard of Prolotherapy? Unless you’ve been in the market for a knee or hip replacement, my guess is ‘no.’ But it’s a neat therapy option for folks wanting to avoid surgery – like my mum.
So I wrote about it for MN Good Age Magazine.
XRay of Knee, taken from MN Good Age Magazine article
Here’s a preview:
“Dr. Frank neufeld, a dentist from Hutchinson, MN, remembers the exact moment his favorite hobby sidelined him with searing pain. “The first time I hurt my knee I was running on the beach in the Cayman Islands,” says the 70-year-old avid runner. “That started all of my knee injuries.”
That was two-and-a-half years ago. Neufeld never got the initial injury diagnosed and had since battled through bouts of pain in his leg joints, mostly knees and hips. Then, last October, Neufeld injured his knee again and hamstring. “Going up and down steps bothered me,” he says. “I could not run on it all and had to take a few months off from tennis.”
Neufeld sought out a diagnosis and courses of treatment from his physician, chiropractor, and orthopedic specialist. “The orthopedic surgeon said it was partially bone on bone,” Neufeld explains. “There was no ligament damage but I evidently just irritated the heck out of it and [it] never got better.”
His knee was so bad, the orthopedic surgeon told Neufeld that he was on the road toward having a knee replacement. Not so fast, Neufeld responded. “I went online to find out if there was something else I could do to alleviate this thing.””
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