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Ten million or more sports injuries are treated in the United States each year. Many musculoskeletal injuries can benefit from the application of sports medicine, even though they may have different causes. The resulting injuries in many cases are similar even though the activity that created them is different. Carrying a suitcase, for instance, can cause tennis elbow as well as turning a screw, or opening a sticky door. Similarly, an injury such as runner's knee is sometimes the result of excessive inward rolling of the foot (pronation) while walking.

How do sports injuries develop?
There are many reasons sports injuries occur, including faulty training methods, imbalanced stress on certain parts of the body that results from structural abnormalities, and weakness of the tendons, muscles and ligaments. Chronic wear and tear, which results from a repetitive motion stressing susceptible tissue leads to many of these injuries. Pain occurs when a small number of muscle or tendon fibers start to tear. Powerful pressure, greater than the inherent strength of the muscles, tendons and ligaments will often tear them. After a sprain, joints are more prone to injury, especially when the muscles and ligaments that support them are weak. Faulty training methods, however, is the most common cause of muscle and joint injuries. The individual often doesn't allow for an adequate post-workout recovery time or continues to exercise or play the sport even when pain has developed.

What are some common sports injuries?
• Patellar tendonitis (Jumper's Knee)
• Osgood-Schlatter's Disease
• Shoulder dislocation
• Iliotibial band syndrome
• Torn meniscus
• Whiplash
• Ischial tuberosity pain
• Post-fracture pain
• Pubic symphysis injury

Conventional medical treatments may help relieve the symptoms of sports injuries, but they do not address the root of the problem. By strengthening structural weaknesses in the body, as natural medicine treatments like Prolotherapy do, pain associated with sports injuries may be alleviated permanently.

Discover why we believe that natural medicine treatments are the best way to treat sports injuries.

Read Prolo Your Sports Injuries Away! and Learn:

Who would be a candidate for Prolotherapy?
Ross Hauser, MD is a full time Prolotherapy physician and Medical Director of Caring Medical in Chicago land. In this video, Dr. Hauser reviews some key indications where a person would know if he or she is a good Prolotherapy candidate, based on the thousands of patients he has treated over many years with Prolotherapy injections. Prolotherapy works to repair soft tissue, including ligaments and tendons. Good candidates for Prolotherapy include with degenerative arthritis, ligament injury, joint instability, meniscus tear, labral tear, tendon injury, cartilage injury, torn meniscus, torn labrum, or other stabilizing structure in the joint. In our practice, we also work to get the body healing optimally. This can includes getting patients off dangerous anti-inflammatory medications, as well as working with diet and supplements to promote healing. To learn more and become a patient, please visit: http://www.caringmedical.com/therapies/prolotherapy.asp

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Prolotherapy can get an athlete back in the game without surgery, cortisone, or NSAID treatments. http://www.prolonews.com/prolotherapy_with_platelet_rich_plasma_is_a_good_alternative
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Prolotherapy helps sports injuries of all kinds including labral tears, dislocation, and overuse-injury. http://www.caringmedical.com/therapies/prolotherapy.asp
 
Can Prolotherapy heal my sports injury? http://www.caringmedical.com/sports_injury/findinjury.asp
 
Non-surgical treatment option for tennis elbow and golfers elbow. http://www.prolonews.com/sports_injuries_in_the_older_athlete.htm
 
Prolotherapy helps athletes avoid meniscectomy surgical procedures. http://www.prolonews.com/meniscal_injury.htm
 
Alternative to shoulder surgery for rotator cuff tendonitis and impingement syndrome. http://www.chicagosportsmedicine.com/sports_shoulder_injury.html
 
Ankle bracing is out, Prolotherapy is in. http://www.chicagosportsmedicine.com/sports_shoulder_injury.html
 
Runners with plantar fasciitis or heel spurs. Repair the injury without cortisone! http://www.chicagosportsmedicine.com/achilles_tendon_heel_spurs.html
 
Older athletes should consider Prolotherapy for sports injuries to stay active. http://www.prolonews.com/sports_injuries_in_the_older_athlete.htm
 
ACL tear injuries heal using an alternative to steroid injections. http://www.caringmedical.com/sports_injury/knee_injury_and_cortisone.asp

Stem Cell Prolotherapy & Bone Marrow Prolotherapy. Like all injectable solutions used with Prolotherapy, we use them to aid in healing. Prolotherapy, whether traditional Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy (HHP), Stem Cell Prolotherapy (SCP), Platelet Rich Plasma Prolotherapy (PRPP), or Bone Marrow Prolotherapy (BMP), the goal is the same: to stimulate the repair of injured tissues. Bone Marrow Prolotherapy not only helps the fibroblastic proliferation where the following occurs: proliferation of cells, proteosynthesis, reparation, and the remodeling of tissues, but also chondrocyte proliferation. Typically the tissues that we are trying to stimulate to repair with BMP are articular cartilage, but it can be soft tissues structures such as ligament and tendons.

Marion A. Hauser, M.S., R.D. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER & REGISTERED DIETITIAN Ross A. Hauser, M.D. PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION SPECIALIST