Prolotherapy
In this video, Marc Darrow spends about 27 minutes speaking on "Prolotherapy" at the 39th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Marc Darrow
MARC DARROW, M.D., J.D. received his J.D. Degree from Golden Gate University College of Law, San Francisco, California in 1973 and his M.D. Degree from University of Hawaii, John Burns School of Medicine, Manoa in 1994. He finished his Residency Training in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1998.
Currently, Dr. Darrow is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine and is Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and is a Qualified Medical Examiner.
He practices Sports Medicine and Pain Management at his Joint Rehabilitation & Sports Medical Center in West Los Angeles, California. Contact information is by phone 310-231-7000, fax 310-231-7227, website www.jointrehab.com and e-mail [email protected].
Dr. Darrow emphasizes Prolotherapy at his Center and also teaches Prolotherapy at UCLA. Prolotherapy is a safe, highly effective yet relatively unknown Therapy used to heal chronic pain and musculoskeletal injuries by stimulating the growth of new collagen and cartilage tissue that rejuvenates the damaged ligaments, tendons, muscle fascia and joint capsules responsible for most chronic pain. With an injection of natural substances into precisely targeted areas of the body, knows as “trigger points,” the doctor activates the body’s natural healing process which stimulates the growth of new collagen and cartilage.
An avid sports enthusiast, Dr. Darrow discovered Prolotherapy after an injury on the golf course caused him to suffer the kind of chronic pain that afflicts millions of Americans.
A skeptic, Dr. Darrow became a believer in the therapeutic healing power of Prolotherapy after only one treatment to his wrist. Since then he has devoted his practice to Prolotherapy, an exponentially growing, natural therapy that is revolutionizing the way we heal pain. Dr. Darrow has treated thousands of patients. Many of these patients were scheduled for surgery and never needed it. And, several patients came to Dr. Darrow after a failed surgery and healed using Prolotherapy.
Dr. Darrow is the author of Prolotherapy: Living Pain Free. In addition, he has his own radio show called “Living Pain Free” on KRLA-AM-870, Sat. 1:00–2:00 p.m. & Sun. 2:00–3:00 p.m. (Rerun) in Southern California. (Nationwide on internet www.jointrehab.com)
Transcription
Thank you very much. I'd like to introduce my partner here.
Nita Vallens, I don't know if you know her, she is a APHC in psych and she has her own radio show on Tuesdays from one to two called Inner Visions on KPFA K. We have a show that we do together on Saturdays live from one to two and K.R., L.A. and we just finished a show and shot over here to do this. So I always, like when needed, comes with me. Sometimes she speaks some, sometimes she doesn't. But she knows this stuff backwards and forwards because we've been doing this together for years. I've actually done prolotherapy on NIDA and she's here because I good success with her. And as the people that know me, I've done a lot of prolotherapy and myself been doing this for about 10000 people worth.
And the results get better and better.
So I needed you wanted to say hi.
Welcome, everyone. It's great to be here with you. It's a great event. And I know you're gonna love what Dr. Dehra has to say.
So, first of all, anyone here had prolotherapy.
One, two, can't see everybody. Three. A few. Anyone out of those people that has heard of prolotherapy? So maybe half the people or so have heard of it, so I'll be on sort of a basic level with you then and give you an idea of what it's all about.
So I teach this at UCLA. And that's pretty odd. You might think, because it is what we call alternative medicine and the course I'd teaches to the residents of physical medicine rehabilitation, which is a very wide open field. We do orthopedics, we do amputations, spinal cord injury, brain trauma, any kind of big life changes. But the part of it that I always love was the orthopedics. I was going to be an orthopedic surgeon until I had a shoulder surgery that wiped out my shoulder. And, you know, the byline of our radio show is Take the surgery out of pain, meaning don't go for the surgery unless it's an emergency. I see people in my office, I get maybe six, seven new people a day out of that. Probably half of them have had a failed surgery who always say, I wish I knew you first.
So we tried to educate our audience that surgery is the very last thing to do unless it's an emergency. Then go run to the E.R., get the surgery done. The question is, what is an emergency? Because there's different grades of what people think that is.
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