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You go to the doctor with a complaint of severe shoulder pain. The pain is at the top and side of your shoulder and causing you great discomfort. You tell your doctor that the pain is much worse when you do anything where you have to reach over your head. Further, you tell your doctor that you also have a hard time sleeping at night because the pain is worse when you lay down. You may get an examination and your doctor may look for how much range of motion you have in your shoulder. If you have a lot
The hip joint, the shoulder joint, the knee joint, the big toe joints, they all have one thing in common. When they are in the process of wear and tear degenerative joint disease, they become unstable, painful, and they start forming bone spurs and bony overgrowths. Sometimes the person suffering from degenerative joint disease will let this condition of joint instability go on for too long. This will cause the bone spurs to become too large and they will freeze up the joint, making it stiff and unmovable, and, necessitating a need for surgery to shave down the bones. In
Why do your joints chronically swell up? Swelling or inflammation is the body’s way to try to heal tissue and bone damage in joints. Back in the 1990s I wrote in my book the Collagen Revolution, that the body’s natural healing response is inflammation. If you stopped the inflammation process you could stop your body’s ability to heal or protect a damaged joint. Therefore you needed inflammation to heal but you needed inflammation to be controlled so that excessive swelling and chronic inflammation did not in of itself cause joint degeneration. Over the years, our general rule in offering regenerative
One of the most fascinating subjects in health is caloric restriction and fasting, since both have been shown to promote healing, health, and longevity. Short-term caloric restriction suppressed oxidative stress and improved cardiac function.(1) Caloric restriction increases the level of the hormone DHEA (short for dehydroepiandrosterone) in muscle and blood, suggesting that DHEA might partially mediate anti-aging, anti-obesity, and health-promoting effects.(2) Caloric restriction has been found to reverse the impairment caused by a high-fat diet with very high energy efficiency in a short period.(3) In the context of joint repair, caloric restriction becomes especially intriguing. Caloric restriction may be beneficial
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Marc Darrow, M.D., J.D., is one of the world’s most experienced Regenerative Doctors. He utilizes Bone Marrow Concentrate, Platelet rich Plasma (PRP), and Prolotherapy, to treat orthopedic issues involving joints, tendons, ligaments, from head to toe.
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