PROLOTHERAPY CAN HELP PEOPLE WITH ARTIFICIAL KNEES & HIP REPLACEMENT

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PROLOTHERAPY CAN HELP PEOPLE WITH ARTIFICIAL KNEES

Ross Hauser, M.D.

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Yes, Prolotherapy can help people with artificial knees and hips, assuming

the knees and hips are aligned in the proper position. Most of the pain after

an artificial knee or hip relates to the structures around the joint. For

the knees, it is the pes anserina tendons. These are stretched during the

surgery and often when a person rehabs after a knee replacement these tendons

and

their muscles are not strengthened. Most likely this area had degenerated

along with the knees prior to the surgery and nothing had been done to

strengthen it. So when the knee joint is strong and the tendons and muscles

are not

strong, pain inevitably develops. By strengthening the tendon attachments of

the pes anserina around the knee with Prolotherapy, the knee pain typically

resolves and walking improves dramatically.

 

When a person gets a knee or hip replacement there is a lot of stretching of

normal anatomical structures during the surgery. So residual pain after the

surgery can be ligament or tendon laxity (weakness/tearing). Typically three

to six visits of Prolotherapy can help alleviate the pain.

 

Prolotherapy Following Hip Replacement

 

Q. I have several friends who have had a hip replacement (THR) or a hip

resurfacing. That has helped with the walking and getting around, but my

friends

still complain about groin pain. Is it possible to have Prolotherapy

following hip surgery?

 

A. Many people who have continued pain after a surgery benefit from

Prolotherapy. The reasoning is simple, the surgery did not address whatever

pain

remains. In other words, something besides the hip is causing the continued

groin

pain. This could be a referral pain pattern from the pubis, lower back or

tendon/ligaments that go to the greater trochanter (side of the hip).

 

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