Wednesday, August 22, 2007

neural therapy and prolotherapy

i recently learned that neural therapy is used in germany to tend to the nerve pains brought about by ap. i know they use a special approach with the neural therapy, but i am not sure how that differs from the neural therapy i have read about online.

from what i have learned, the dreaded sh injury can cause your body to go into all kinds of musculoskeltal imbalnces (which also can be a predisposition to ap). the si joint can go out of whack, which in itself is very painful (take it from me).

prolotherapy is commonly used for strengthening up the connective tissues at problem areas/joints such as a hypermobile si joint. it is also used for relieving pain from such injuries.
neural therapy is used for pain via a neuropathy of sorts as well as nerve pain from scar tissue. injections are both placed into scar tissue and also into the nerve root. apparently it is great for chronic pain such as with a long-standing ap injury.

not too many doctors do these therapies. in fact it is very hard to find good ones with experience. but if you suffer from lingering nerve pain then it might be worth it to find one or two docs to choose from.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

http://www.acopms.com/

The American Osteopathic Association of Prolotherapy Regenerative Medicine
303 S. Ingram Ct.
Middletown, DE 19709
Telephone:(302) 530-2489
Email: admin@acopms.com