This article explains a new mode of therapy involving blood injections for back pain, which focuses on mechanical dysfunction of the joints and treatment of inflammation of the damaged tissues. The injected blood is heated up to boost the concentration of proteins that help by reducing inflammation of the damaged tissues. To get the maximum benefit, good sleep, diet and body conditioning are essential when combined with this autologous blood injection method of treatment.

Dr Ross Hauser demonstrates a prolotherapy treatment to the lower back, as done at Caring Medical and Rehabilitation Services in Oak Park, Illinois. Dr. Hauser specializes in tough cases of chronic pain and sports injuries.

Blood Injections For Back Pain

Another successful blood injection technique is Platelet Rich Plasma (or PRP) therapy

Biologic medicine is a rapidly growing field. Wehling’s Regenokine treatment might sound similar to another blood-spinning treatment, known as platelet-rich plasma, or P.R.P., that has gained popularity in the United States in recent years. In that procedure, the goal is to produce a high concentration of platelet cells, which are believed to speed the healing process. Wehling said his treatment differed from P.R.P. because he heats the blood before it is spun to increase the concentration of anti-inflammatory proteins, rather than the platelets, in his cell-free solution.

 

The idea is not just to focus on mechanical problems in the joints or lower back but to treat inflammation as a cause of tissue damage as well as a symptom.

 

“The potential of biology to treat orthopedic problems is high because it has only been developed a little,” Wehling said in an interview.

 

“It has to be embedded in a good concept more broadly,” he added, emphasizing that sleep, diet and conditioning are among the important components to go with the injections. “There’s no such thing as the one therapy that fixes everything.”

 

On a recent morning he treated not only Berg but also a basketball player, a golfer, a Hollywood executive and a former martial artist.

 

“The results were incredible,” Vijay Singh, the world’s former No. 1 golfer and a patient of Wehling’s, said in a telephone interview. “It’s like somebody just put oil all over your body. It lubes you up, and you’re able to move more freely, especially pain free.”

 

The question is how effective the treatment will prove in the long run.

 

Dr. Freddie Fu, a professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, has been critical of many such treatments, including P.R.P. He was slightly more optimistic about Wehling’s approach.

 

“The gimmick is, it’s your own body, it must be safe,” Fu said. “There has been some impressive research done already, and there is a good scientific fundament to do more research.

 

“However, before the F.D.A. approves, more high-quality independent trials have to be done in order to prove the effectiveness.”

 

Recent patients speak glowingly of the doctor as well as his therapy.

 

“When you come here and are skeptical and all your pain disappears, it makes you all the more devoted to the science of it,” said Tim Shaheen, from Los Angeles. “What about people on assembly lines with terrible knees and terrible backs? This would be a lifesaver for that in quality of life.”

 

The therapy generally lasts five days, starting with an evaluation and, if the patient decides to go ahead, drawing the blood.

 

“As much blood as they took the first day, I didn’t think I’d have any left,” said Wes Short Jr., a professional golfer from Austin, Tex. It was his first trip to Germany, he said, indeed his first to a non-English-speaking country, and he still marveled at the fact that most of the taxis were Mercedeses.

 

Short lay on his stomach, his green short-sleeve shirt hiked up. Wehling had just injected several syringes of serum into the small of his back. Afterward the doctor left half a dozen acupuncture needles quivering in Short’s back.

 

The fact that Wehling had treated Pope John Paul II made a strong impression on Short. “I’m sure he doesn’t trust just anybody,” said Short, who hoped to start playing again if the treatment worked.

 

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An innovation in treating back pain through blood injections for back pain has created wonders, and it is on the verge of being approved as a safe and established method. It sounds peculiar that blood holds a potential cure. The theory behind this new therapy is to stimulate the anti-inflammatory proteins in the blood and injecting them into the body. It may sound painful, but a few days of bearing pain can lead to permanent cure of back pain. There is every possibility of this autologous blood injection technique becoming established as one of the best alternative treatments for back pain. This alternative treatment provides hope of a new method of treatment for back pain, and trials are being undertaken before the FDA approves it.

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