Questions About Arthritis

From our Radio Show:

Caller: I have osteoarthritis of the shoulders.

Dr. Darrow: If you can lift your arm straight up in the air there is a good chance you can be healed without surgery. So don’t think because you have arthritis that surgery is the only option.

Every single day I have people come in with arthritis. Very
often people come in with arthritis of the right hip which is not as bad as the arthritis in the left hip, but the right
hip hurts, the left one does not.

So get this picture – arthritis in both hips – the hip that
doesn’t have any pain can have worse arthritis. But because of a diagnosis they are going to have surgery on it even though they do not have pain.

And I say to them, “why would you have surgery on the hip that is not painful even with worse arthritis than the other hip with less arthritis that is painful? What does that tell you about pain and arthritis?

Then a lot bulb goes off in their head, it may not be the
arthritis causing them pain.

Every joint has a lot of soft tissue around it, ligaments,
tendons, so pain can come from any of this tissue it may or may not be the arthritis.

So that you say you have arthritis, that may not be the cause of pain and the reason to have a surgery.

Caller: It is too late for me, I already had surgery to my
knees and hips and now it is in my shoulder. My son suggested I listen to your program and talk to you about it.

Dr. Darrow: I think before you have another surgery, you should consider Prolotherapy which is going to stimulate more tissue growth and hopefully get rid of your pain, whether you call it arthritis, or tendonitis, or tendinosis, etc. I really don’t even want to know the diagnosis other than for medical/legal reasons because a diagnosis I believe, often blocks people from healing
by being labeled – they don’t think they can heal because they have arthritis.

So don’t let the diagnosis fool you, don’t let your MRI, your CT Scan, your X-rays fool you, those thing that show up in tests may not be the cause of your pain

Caller:But I have seen X-rays on my knees and there is nothing there.

Dr. Darrow: That is what Prolotherapy does, it stimulates tissue growth.