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Controlled trials of inositol in psychiatry
Abstract: Inositol is a simple polyol precursor in a second messenger system important in the brain. Cerebrospinal fluid inositol has been reported as decreased in depression. A double-blind controlled trial of 12 g daily of inositol in 28 depressed patients for four...
ACell: Revolutionary New Treatments
"Whenever there is a significant loss of soft tissue due to trauma, disease or surgery, only a regenerative medicine approach can help the body replace what was lost. ACell Vet’s extracellular matrix (ECM) is comprised of a combination of multiple growth factors and...
Cell phone radiation causes brain cancer
After decades of denials and attacks by the media which called people concerned about cell phone radiation “tin foil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists,” a massive, multi-year study funded by the federal government now concludes that yes, cell phone radiation causes...
Vaxxed
The scientist, Dr. William Thompson, confessed that the CDC had omitted crucial data in their final report that revealed a causal relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism. Over several months, Dr. Hooker records the phone calls made to him by Dr. Thompson who...
KSNO Reports “Super Wellness ‘Spaceship Sauna’”
The Mammoth’s Elizabeth Drolet recently got heated in the test-sweat of a lifetime. Drolet tried out the “mac daddy of saunas” at Aspen Integrative Medicine located in Basalt. The HOCATT Sauna, which stands for Hyperthermic Ozone and Carbonic Acid Transdermal...
Dr. Hauser Explains Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis.
In this article, Ross Hauser MD discusses the use of Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis, also known as PRP Knee Injections. In November 2015, research appeared in the medical journal Arthroscopy, the Journal of Arthroscopic and...
Platelet-rich Plasma (PRP) Treatment Shows Potential for Knee Osteoarthritis
A study by researchers from Hospital for Special Surgery has shown that platelet-rich plasma (PRP) holds great promise for treating patients with knee osteoarthritis. The treatment improved pain and function, and in up to 73% of patients, appeared to delay the...
Intradiscal Injection of Autologous Platelet-Rich-Plasma for the Treatment of Lumbar Disc Degeneration
Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is an important clinical problem that often contributes to low back pain and degenerative disc diseases. Degeneration of the IVD induces anulus tears and fissures, which can cause severe discogenic low back pain. Because the IVD...
The role of platelet-rich plasma in rotator cuff repair.
The shoulder is a common source of disability resulting from traumatic and degenerate tears of the rotator cuff, subacromial impingement, and osteoarthritis. Nonoperative management has focused on treatment of the predisposing factors, the use of analgesics and...
Platelet rich plasma in arthroscopic rotator cuff repair: a prospective RCT study, 2-year follow-up.
HYPOTHESIS: Local application of autologous platelet rich plasma (PRP) improves tendon healing in patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective, randomized, controlled, double blind study; considering an alpha level of 5%, a power of...
Chronic neck pain and whiplash: A case-control study of the relationship between acute whiplash injuries and chronic neck pain
The authors undertook a case-control study of chronic neck pain and whiplash injuries in nine states in the United States to determine whether whiplash injuries contributed significantly to the population of individuals with chronic neck and other spine pain. Four...
Platelet-rich plasma treatment more effective than cortisone for severe hip bursitis
Chronic hip bursitis is a common yet difficult condition to treat successfully. A recent study compared the results of PRP and cortisone injections in patients with severe chronic hip (greater trochanteric) bursitis. In the study, "Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) More...
Platelet-Rich Plasma Helps Tennis Elbow
Study: PRP Beats Cortisone Shots for Tennis Elbow Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) -- the latest, still-controversial treatment for tendon injuries -- heals tennis elbow better than corticosteroid shots, a new study suggests. Because they get very little blood, injured...
Treatment of Achilles Tendinopathy with Platelet-Rich Plasma
Non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy commonly impedes the functioning of active persons. Treatment methods vary, as do their results. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of non-insertional Acilles tendinopathy treatment with autologous...
Platelet-Rich Plasma Injection or PRP Injection
Tendon disorders comprise 30% to 50% of all activity-related injuries; chronic degenerative tendon disorders (tendinopathy) occur frequently and are difficult to treat. Tendon regeneration might be improved by injecting platelet-rich plasma (PRP), an increasingly used...
Use of platelet-rich plasma for the treatment of refractory jumper’s knee
The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of multiple platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections on the healing of chronic refractory patellar tendinopathy after previous classical treatments have failed. We treated 15 patients affected by chronic jumper’s knee,...
Intra-articular injection of an autologous preparation rich in growth factors for the treatment of knee OA: a retrospective cohort study
ABSTRACT Objective. To obtain preliminary information about the effectiveness of intra-articular injections of an autologous preparation rich in growth factors (PRGF) for knee OA treatment to be explored further in future studies. Methods. We have characterized PRGF...
Platelet-rich plasma: New clinical application A pilot study for treatment of jumper’s knee
This study describes a simple, low-cost, minimally invasive way to apply PRP growth factors to chronic patellar tendinosis; 20 male athletes with a mean history of 20.7 months of pain received treatment, and outcomes were prospectively evaluated at 6 months follow-up....
IN STATES WITH MEDICAL MARIJUANA, PAINKILLER DEATHS DROP BY 25%
America has a major problem with prescription pain medications like Vicodin and OxyContin. Overdose deaths from these pharmaceutical opioids have approximately tripled since 1991, and every day 46 people die of such overdoses in the United States. However, in the 13...
The Effects of Prolotherapy Versus Prolozone in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis
The current study shows that prolotherapy with hypertonic dextrose or prolozone (intraarticular ozone injection) can be effectively used in the nonoperative management of patients with KOA. Prolotherapy is an injection therapy for the management of chronic...