Prolotherapy
In this video, Marc Darrow spends about 23 minutes speaking on "Prolotherapy" at the 41st 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, everyone here for inviting me and I love this association and Lorraine Rosenthal, thank you very much. I don't see you here today. I hope you're fine. So, yes, this book is my Bible. It's something that healed me many, many, many years ago. I was a sports junkie, as I hope many of you are here. We know that exercise is one of the things in this world that keeps us up like that gentleman that was just here. He is up. And I'd like to be up so in my 40s, I had a lot of problems getting around. I had multiple injuries and I went to a lecture and someone injected me in my wrist. I've got a little arthritis. I've had multiple injuries from gymnastics and skiing and weightlifting and tennis. And this was this is how I do sports. This hand radio. And lo and behold, the next day after I got these injections, I was about 50 percent better. I woke up and I could not believe it. And then I learned more about it. I had had a shoulder surgery and medical school. I used to do orthopedic surgery, which I loved at the time. It's a lot of fun to do it. It's just not a lot of fun to get at. And my shoulder blew up like a balloon and it took about a year for it to quiet down. And I then injected my own shoulder after I found out about prolotherapy and the same deal. Next morning, I woke up completely healed. How can that be? I don't know. There's a lot of things in this world I don't know, and I'm the first one to tell you the truth about that. Patients come in to me every day. We get about 80 new patients a month. They're always ask me how, why wherever I go. I really don't know if you need to know. I'm not the guy to tell you. Go somewhere else.
What this has turned into over the years, prolotherapy means to proliferates from the Greek word to stimulate what we do is we stimulate brand new tissue growth. Now, all my doctor buddies will say this is nonsense. And that's why I love you guys, because you're like I am you're here because you're beyond the nonsense of medicine as far as I'm concerned. Don't ever go to a doctor. I'm serious. When people come in and say, I want to know what is going to happen to me, I go. Don't ask me because I don't know. I'm not a doctor. And they look at me and they go wild, says