Learn how prolotherapy can help your patients

Introductory Course

The introductory workshop is for those who what to know more about musculoskeletal medicine in general and prolotherapy in particular. What you inject, where you inject, why you inject and what you inject. The course also offers the beginner an introduction to mechanisms of how prolotherapy works and which proliferants to use from blood to pumis. The emphasis of this course is to give the participant the knowledge and skill to diagnosis and treat ligamentous laxity of the low back and lumbosacral spine and shoulder.

Diagnosing and treating low back and shoulder pain is always a challenge but a history, physical examination and a care palpatory examination can reveal many causes of low back and shoulder discomfort that cannot be imaged by any means. Using case examples this course will illustrate how to diagnosis and treat the most common cause of low back and shoulder pain. The attendees examine each other’s low backs and shoulders to develop landmark identification skills and then use those skills on an injection model. Once the landmarks are identified the student will try to place the needle on the target structure and check the placement under fluoroscopy.

Next Workshop: February 23, 24, and 25, 2012