"Three years ago my husband and I started ball room dancing.  Although
not ready for "Dancing with the Stars" we loved dancing and discovered
it not only built our poise and posture but was a serious workout.  When
pain in my hip could no longer be ignored, I panicked.  I was struggling
just getting through a 40 minute lesson let alone hours of additional
dancing each week that had become routine.  I tried all the conventional
treatments and only got worse.  My dance instructor’s wife is a massage
therapist and had told him about Prolotherapy.  I was willing to try
anything if it would allow me the ability to dance and exercise again.
Although the treatments are not for the weak of heart, mind or body I
kept my mind on the goal line.  I focused on re-establishing my dance
and exercise routines. I imagined myself no longer limping and viewing a
stair case as the enemy.  I stuck it out. I was determined to replace
pain with freedom. I have completed my treatments.  I actually achieved
victory ahead of schedule.  You can imagine my delight having arrived
for my forth series of injections only to hear Dr. Douglas say no shots
today!  I knew I was feeling better and stronger.  I knew I had returned
to my previous rigor of exercise.  My husband had commented that I was
walking without a limp.  Dr. Douglas confirmed what I believed.  I was
better! That night at the studio my swing was even swingier!"

C. L./Denver, CO                                                                                                 Oct. 2008

Prolotherapy (click on link)

T. F/Denver, CO                                                                                                   Sept. 2008

“I am a very active person. It's likely I injured my hip at some point because I had been experiencing pain in my right hip and low back for over a year.  After just one treatment in my hip, I felt that both my hip and back were more than 90% improved. I noticed that the treatment even helped other areas of my body that had been mildly painful for years.”

T.M./Edwards, CO                                                                                               June 2008

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"Dr. Douglas - Thanks to your Prolotherapy treatment of my left foot, I'm once again a runner! Prior to Prolotherapy, I was a non-runner and was only able to walk with discomfort due to a left foot injury on February 14, 2007. I had six months of conservative treatment from February through July of 2007, including many physical therapy sessions and a six-week walking cast, with zero healing progress. Then after an MRI, I was advised by my sports orthopedist that posterior tibialis tendon surgery would be necessary to regain my left foot function. I easily rejected the surgery option since I could not be assured that I would be able to return to running. 

I had heard of your Prolotherapy work by way of Tom Martino's Troubleshooter radio program so after researching, I made an appointment with your office in early August, 2007. Your thorough explanation of Prolotherapy and examination of my left foot convinced me to start the Prolotherapy injections. You explained that it would require 6 to 8 sets of injections at 4 to 8 week intervals to allow the healing to occur. Prolotherapy worked just as you described and by January 2008, I was walking without favoring my left foot. By February 2008, I was able to begin easy running and now in late May 2008 have returned to my previous training schedule of running 3-5 miles/day four times a week.
 
Thanks, Dr. Douglas! You and Prolotherapy saved me from an unnecessary surgery and have rescued a runner from being a non-runner!"
 
C. J. /Broomfield, CO                                                                May 2008
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Two years ago, I was barely able to walk when getting out of bed in the morning. I was always worried about making it past those first few steps. I went to see three doctors who each told me that I needed a total knee replacement. I found out about Prolotherapy through a friend. Now, after the prolo treatments, I jump out of bed.

K. M./Kersey, CO                                                                                                   April 2008

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I had chronic mid-back pain since I was rear-ended in a motor vehicle accident eight years ago. In an effort to alleviate the pain, I had tried massage, acupuncture, traction, physical therapy, and chiropractic. Unfortunately, I experienced only temporary relief from these efforts. After only two treatments from Dr. Douglas, I noticed significant improvement in my back pain. I just had my third treatment and I probably won’t need to have any more.

R.M./Arvada, CO                                                                                              January 2008

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I suffered from low back pain my entire life. It had become even more painful three weeks prior to seeing Dr. Douglas.  Additionally, my right sacroiliac ligament was extremely wobbly and unstable.  After just 2 prolo treatments, the pain was completely gone.  My back feels stable and I'm now totally functional.

B. W. /Highlands Ranch, CO                                                                         January 2008

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"I am a hiker. On steep inclines my hip would become quite painful. While hiking, I began to realize that I was falling to the back of the group and had never found myself in that position before. I had Prolotherapy on my hip, lower back and knee. After the
treatments, I found that my pain was completely gone while hiking. I am very happy with
the results."
C./Denver, CO                                                                                                January 2008
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Brian S. Tow,                                                                                                December 2007

"If I haven't mentioned before, I received Prolo from Dr. Douglas last year. I had only 2 treatments and I have no more back pain. I am not kidding. It really worked."

 Colorado Massage Therapist: What the heck is Prolotherapy?

Dr. Douglas responds to some bloggers questions about Prolotherapy

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Long article excerpt written by the former surgeon general, Dr. C. Everett Koop

Not many physicians are aware of Prolotherapy, and even fewer are adept at this form of treatment. One wonders why that is so. In my opinion, it is because medical folks are skeptical and Prolotherapy, unless you have tried it and proven its worth, seems to be too easy a solution to a series of complicated problems that afflict the human body and have been notoriously difficult to treat by any other method. Another reason is the simplicity of the therapy: Injecting an irritant solution, which may be something as simple as glucose, at the junction of a ligament with a bone to produce the rather dramatic therapeutic benefits that follow.

Another very practical reason is that many insurance companies do not pay for Prolotherapy, largely because their medical advisors do not understand it, have not practiced it, and therefore do not recommend it. Finally, Prolotherapy seems too simple a procedure for a very complicated series of musculoskeletal problems which affect huge numbers of patients.
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"I have been a patient who has
benefited from Prolotherapy."
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The reason why I consented to write the preface to this book is because I have been a patient who has benefited from Prolotherapy. Having been so remarkably relieved of my chronic disabling pain, I began to use it on some of my patients – but more on that later.


When I was 40 years old, I was diagnosed in two separate neurological clinics as having intractable (incurable) pain. My comment was that I was too young to have intractable pain. It was by chance that I learned that Gustav A. Hemwall, M.D., a practitioner in the suburbs of Chicago, was an expert in Prolotherapy. When I asked him if he could cure my pain, he asked me to describe it. When I had done the best that I could, he replied., "There is no such pain. Do you mean a pain" And then he continued to describe my pain much better than I could. When I said, "That’s it exactly," he said, "I can fix you."  
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"My intractable pain was not intractable
& I was remarkably improved."

To make a long story short, my intractable pain was not intractable and I was remarkably improved to the point where my pain ceased to be a problem. Much milder recurrences of that pain over the next 20 years were retreated the same way with equally beneficial results.

I was so impressed with what Dr. Hemwall had done for me that on several occasions, just to satisfy my curiosity, I watched him work in his clinic and witnessed the unbelievable variety of musculoskeletal problems he was able to treat successfully.

"I saw so many of them cured that
I could not help but become a "believer"
in Prolotherapy."

Many of his patients were people who had been treated for years by all sorts of methods, including major surgery, some of which had left them worse off than they were before. Many of his patients had the lack of confidence in further treatment and the low expectations that folks inflicted with chronic pain frequently exhibit. Yet I saw so many of them cured that I could not help but become a "believer" in Prolotherapy.

I was a pediatric surgeon, and there are not many times when Prolotherapy is needed in children because they just don’t suffer from the same relaxation of musculoskeletal connections that are so amenable to treatment by Prolotherapy. But I noticed frequently that the parents of my patients were having difficulty getting into their coats, or they walked with a limp, or they favored an arm. I would ask what the problem was and then, if it seemed suitable, offer my services in Prolotherapy at no expense, feeling that I was a pediatric surgeon and this was really not my line of work. The results I saw in those many patients were just as remarkable as was the relief I had received in the hands of Dr. Hemwall.


C. Everett Koop, M.D. & President Reagan

"the call of President Reagan to be
Surgeon General of the United States
interrupted any such plans."

I was so impressed with what Prolotherapy could do for musculoskeletal disease that I, at one time, thought that might be the way I would spend my years after formal retirement from the University of Pennsylvania. But the call of President Reagan to be Surgeon General of the United States interrupted any such plans.

The reader may wonder why, in spite of what I have said and what this book contains, there are still so many skeptics about Prolotherapy. I think it has to be admitted that those in the medical profession, once they have departed from their formal training and have established themselves in practice, are not the most open to innovative and new ideas.

"The nice thing about prolotherapy,
if properly done, is that it
cannot do any harm."

Prolotherapy is not a cure-all for all pain. Therefore, the diagnosis must be made accurately and the therapy must be done by someone who knows what he or she is doing. The nice thing about prolotherapy, if properly done, is that it cannot do any harm. How could placing a little sugar-water at the junction of a ligament with a bone be harmful to a patient?

I hope that Dr. Hauser’s book, written for laymen, will push them to inquire more about Prolotherapy and that it might receive the place in modern therapeutics that I think it really deserves.

C. Everett Koop, M.D., ScD
Former United States Surgeon General

Reprinted Excerpts from-Prolo Your Pain Away
Curing Chronic Pain with Prolotherapy
Beulah land Press, 2000
By Ross Hauser M.D. and Marion Hauser,M.S., R.D