Prolotherapy of Neck by Dr Stanley Lam + explanation 林敬熹醫生講解示範保絡治療頸椎

Dr Stanley KH Lam, a Musculoskeletal Physician in Hong Kong, demonstrates a typical Prolotherapy procedure to the cervical spine (neck) and its associated structures. Dr. Lam and other Musculoskeletal Physicians of HKIMM have been treating patients from around the world with Prolotherapy and other comprehensive musculoskeletal treatments.

Dr Lam and other Musculoskeletal Physicians of HKIMM have found that Prolotherapy is an excellent alternative to surgeries to spine, e.g. spinal fusion and discectomy. Prolotherapy offers a permanent solution for the ROOT CAUSES of cervical or thoracic problems typically not released with traditional anti-inflammatory treatments, which includes NSAIDs and cortisone injections. These cervical problems include: chronic neck pain, neck stiffness, chronic headache (as a lot of the migraine and tension headache not treated or released by traditional western medications are in fact due to cervical spine problems), and chronic dizziness or vertigo (as cervicogenic dizziness is one of the 3 commonest causes of chronic dizziness or vertigo).

The ROOT CAUSES of these chronic pains are usually soft tissue injuries which includes ligaments, tendons, joint capsules and cartilages. These soft tissues are easily injured from sports injuries, traffic accidents, fights, accidental fall, and repeated micro-injuries (which are usually called wear and tear/degeneration) from poor postures, overweight or repeated manual works. These soft tissues, especially the tendons, joint capsules and cartilage have good nerve supply, therefore, injuries in these regions produces a lot of PAIN from stimulating these nerve endings. However, after injuries, these soft tissues are so DIFFICULT TO HEAL (a lot of times maximally up to only 70% of original integrity and strength after injuries) simply because they naturally have very poor blood supply. That is why injuries to these regions produce a lot of chronic pain in various regions of our body after repeated injuries. Prolotherapy carries a new hope to these injuries and chronic pain.

If you would like to see our other videos on Prolotherapy, or would like to see if Prolotherapy can help your chronic pain, please visit www.hkimm.hk.

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• Dr Stanley KH Lam
• Neck pain
• alternative to neck surgery
• alternative to spinal fusion
• Neck injury
• Whiplash injury
• herniated disc
• degenerated disc
• neck pain relief
• Chronic neck pain treatment
• Cervicogenic headache
• HKIMM
• www.hkimm.hk
• 林敬熹醫生
• 頸椎
• 頸痛慢性痛症
• 保絡治療
• 頸椎性頭暈
• 頸椎性頭痛

[steve76384]

hey i am in desperate need for prolotherapy but i have a really bad fear or needles. i was just wondering if it was possible to be put to sleep before the prosedure. thanx

[prolodoctor]

@steve76384

Sometimes, if patients really hate needles, and clinical examination showed that prolotherapy is a solution, I'll put the patient under intravenous sedation and perform prolotherapy. Under such circumstances, the patient will not feel pain. But since a patient usually needs 4-6 treatments to be achieve pain free, it is more cost-effective to perform PRP for the patients. Otherwise, these patients need to be under iv sedation once every month for 4-6 months, that's not fun!

[josephdubroff]

Hello Stanley,

Good to see your face over the internet. Good to see all your good promotion of a great therapy. Its Joe from the the Mexico Prolo training. You come up #1 in the states for prolo videos....not many putting on video's on the internet.

I like your videos

[prolodoctor]

@josephdubroff

Hello Joe, long time no see, how are you? How is your work recently?

[rddbba]

O h MY God the neck nerves are in the needle way are you doing the needle work taking the nerves in account without " ultrasould guidance?? it cannot be without pain the needle is just too rough.

[prolodoctor]

@rddbba

Good point, all the prolotherapy are now under ultrasound guidance nowadays in my clinic. Nevertheless, if you know the anatomy well, and if you've undergone proper training, like the ones organized by the AAOM or Hackett Hemwall foundation, you must know where is the danger zone, where you MUST not put the needle in, and where is safe. A good prolotherapist will know most of the nerve roots exist the cervical spine in front of the transvere processes.

[prolodoctor]

@nvd2ceb4

Sorry for my late reply. I learn all the prolotherapy techniques in the state. There are a lot of Prolotherapist in the states. You can search the internet to get one nearby. So far, in my patients pool, prolotherapy proved to be the most effective treatment for the Whiplash injury caused by car accidents.

[nvd2ceb4]

OMG...I have cervical vertigo due to a car accident and I've been battling this for over 5 years. I had a cortizone shot from the base of my head down to the muscles of my shoulders and it was utterly painful. Worse than getting a needle in the gums. I'm in the states and I have dealt with clueless doctors about what I have. Can this be done in the states?