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BULGING DISCS
Dr. Darrow frequently discusses
back pain
On His Radio Program
Here's
another excerpt:
CALLER:
I have baseball injury and I play golf at
least once a week, and once maybe twice a year I will aggravate this old
back injury, a bulging disc.
Anything that you can recommend?
Dr. Darrow: What happened with the
baseball how long ago was that?
CALLER: 8-9 years ago.
Dr. Darrow: And was that the same area of your back that
hurt when you play golf?
CALLER: Yes, lower right,
same injury
Dr. Darrow: At some point you
probably sprained the iliolumbar ligament. I am a little bit guessing
here because I can't touch you, but if you are sore, if you can press
your thumb right above your pelvis and that is the sore area, that is
where the iliolumbar ligament is and that is what attaches the pelvis to
the spine and for people, especially golfers where they make a big turn
and swinging their club at like 100 miles an hour and then torquing
their body's, it stretches their
ligaments
way out, it is like a rubber band that has been stretched too far and it
doesn't come back to its original size until we do
Prolotherapy
and it brings it back into alignment. DO you have any leg pain with your
back pain?
Caller:
No
Dr. Darrow: I am pretty sure if that
we palpitated the area for you it would be pretty sore and Prolotherapy
could help heal that right up.
DR. Gene:
Why don't some injuries heal?
Dr. Darrow: I mentioned before, the
areas that don't heal typically don't have a very good blood supply so
they don't have a chance to have the nutrients that they need to heal or
to have the cells, the chondroblasts or the fibroblasts come to the area
through the blood system to help grow more tissues, what happens is,
most injuries are what we call strains or sprains where the area is
stretched out. What happens is that they never grow back on their own,
so what we are left with is a constant pain generator until we can do
Prolotherapy to rejuvenate it and grow more tissue there and bring it
back to its pre-injury state.
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