RE: Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)?

[Guest guest]

There seems to be SO much in the way of treatments that just aren't

available here where I live. The docs here are just SO backward and do

not want to learn about new treatments for CP...very frustrating for those

of us that have to live with it.

Joi

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)?

I have had really good results by combining Prolo with PRP. Has anyone

else tried PRP and, if so, was it helpful?

Anne

[Guest guest]

Joi:

Sadly, its not just where you live, its everywhere! Although it appears that

you have a better shot of finding a good doc who provides prolotherapy nearer to

a major city than between two cities like you.

I can't totally blame the doctors for this. They have invested so much time,

energy and money in medical school, residency, etc. and only know what they are

taught.

And it seems that the medical schools teach that unless you have a torn meniscus

or something else very specific, you have Chondromalacia.

And what do they prescribe for Chondromalacia? Rest, ice, compression,

elevation (R.I.C.E.). Great, thanks. Oh... and strengthen your VMO. Thanks

doc. Very helpful.

What do they recommend? Surgeries that don't work and often make things worse.

Anything " new " or " not mainstream " is immediately thought to be dangerous or

quackery. " If it is so great, I would have learned about it in medical school. "

Sadly, that is incorrect. My doc didn't learn about prolotherapy until " way

after medical school " (his words) and only because he stumbled upon it and was

intellectually curious.

What to do about it? I don't know. Those of us who have discovered better

treatments need to keep spreading the word. Hopefully in 20 years or so,

Prolotherapy will be considered mainstream and we'll look back on treatment

protocols of today like we look at blood-letting and leaches.

Sorry... I ranted. Didn't mean to.

Take care,

Doug

>

> There seems to be SO much in the way of treatments that just aren't

> available here where I live. The docs here are just SO backward and do

> not want to learn about new treatments for CP...very frustrating for those

> of us that have to live with it.

>

> Joi

>

>

> Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)?

>

> I have had really good results by combining Prolo with PRP. Has anyone

> else tried PRP and, if so, was it helpful?

>

> Anne

>

[Guest guest]

Rant away! LOL You really hit the proverbial nail on the head. What I don't

" get " is don't docs have to have some kind of continuing education like

nurses do? You'd think with the leaps and bounds that medicine many times

makes, they'd want it regardless of whether of not they have to have it.

Even a doctor can't argue the fact that new information is being found all

the time...medicine is one of those professions where it's always a learning

process. It just doesn't stay stagnant and won't until we (AKA the doctors)

know everything, which will never be possible.

Joi

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)?

>

> I have had really good results by combining Prolo with PRP. Has anyone

> else tried PRP and, if so, was it helpful?

>

> Anne

>

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[Guest guest]

I will also rant!  Prolotherapy will take patients away from orthop. surgeons

and cure them (about 80 to 90%) rather than have them coming back and getting

drugs, and surgery after surgery.  And there is no money to be made for the

drug companies in sugar water!  PRP needs equipment so that will be promoted

and will grow since the companies can make big bucks!  The status quo of health

care (docs and corporations) in the US have a financial stake in prolo NOT

becoming known.  Think how it could revolutionize medicine - taking people's

pain away, healing nerves (look up Dr Lyftogt's groundbreaking work in NZ - my

prolo doc thinks he'll get a Nobel Prize for healing neuropathies).

 

Anyway, I had to do a LOT of research and emailing to find my doc in Mexico. 

My husband and I get all our care there because it's cheap and accessible and

there is no " attitude " or hustle like many in the US.  But, prolo is slowly

becoming known. Perhaps better known abroad. Currently in Honduras there is a

medical mission happening, prolo docs from a round the world, sponsored by the

Hackett-Hemwall Foundation (the guys who pioneered prolo), and they'll treat

about 4,000 people. 

 

I am glad to hear of other prolo successes, from Anne and Doug. To have an

alternative to surgery, hi-tech cartilage replacement, braces, drugs etc - it is

so worth looking into it!!  Don't believe everything from the medical

establishment....

 

Sally

 

From: West <wildwest@...>

Subject: RE: Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)?

chondromalacia treatment

Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 6:02 PM

 

Rant away! LOL You really hit the proverbial nail on the head. What I don't

" get " is don't docs have to have some kind of continuing education like

nurses do? You'd think with the leaps and bounds that medicine many times

makes, they'd want it regardless of whether of not they have to have it.

Even a doctor can't argue the fact that new information is being found all

the time...medicine is one of those professions where it's always a learning

process. It just doesn't stay stagnant and won't until we (AKA the doctors)

know everything, which will never be possible.

Joi

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)?

>

> I have had really good results by combining Prolo with PRP. Has anyone

> else tried PRP and, if so, was it helpful?

>

> Anne

>

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