PROLOTHERAPY

Do you suffer from any of the following?

• Knee pain
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Achilles Tendonitis
• Painful bunions
• Hammer toes
• Morton’s neuroma

Prolotherapy uses local anaesthetics, mixed with homoeopathic solutions, which are injected into sites of joint damage and painful areas around joints.

Prolotherapy reduces pain and can stimulate sprained or injured ligaments and/or strained tendons to start the natural healing process. It is simple and safe, and is preferable to using steroids as a first choice of treatment. It can also use a small sample (1 to 2ml.) of your own blood, taken from a suitable site such as your arm and injected into a specific site, to start healing. This use of ‘autologous blood’ has been well researched in the UK and USA in the treatment of tennis elbow. Special cells in your blood called platelets give off a natural growth factor called PDGF that can start an immune (healing) response at a site of damage.

Prolotherapy has been used in America since the 1930s and is becoming increasingly well known and used in Australia and New Zealand. In the UK some medical Doctors in the British Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine (BIMM) now use Prolotherapy to treat all kinds of joints in the body, including the spine.

This treatment is given by Podiatrist Caroline Samson, whose area of use is the knee and the lower limb including the ankle, foot and toes.

At the initial session you can expect a detailed examination and discussion to enable Caroline to ascertain whether Prolotherapy is suitable for you. If you both feel happy to go ahead Caroline will decide the type of homeopathic solution, Zeel® or Traumeel®, which she can prescribe herself, as a Podiatrist.

For the treatment itself she will anesthetise the skin in the area with a coolant spray. After the skin is frozen she will inject the chosen substance into the area of pain. Most people say they feel little discomfort and the safe anaesthetic that is mixed with the substance she injects reduces this to a minimum.
After the injections you may notice a redness and soreness in the area of injection. This should not be excessive and should subside in a day or so. Also, as with any site of multiple injections you may have slight bruising; this nothing to worry about and is simply due to tiny amounts of blood that leak into the skin layers from the injection tracks and is harmless. (In fact, the blood can help the healing!)

Caroline Samson
A highly-respected Podiatrist, Caroline Samson has an honours degree in Podiatry studies from Brighton University, is a member of the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists and registered with the Health Professions Council (www.hpc-uk.org).

Caroline has been in private practice for eleven years. Initially working in the Surrey area, she moved to Hastings seven years ago. Caroline has run a chiropody/podiatry clinic in the town for over five years, offering routine chiropody treatments and specialist foot care, including nail surgery under local anaesthesia and management for people with diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.

Caroline also specialises in the treatment of pain in the knee, ankle and foot and is now able to offer prolotherapy (injection therapy) and laser therapy at The Wellington Centre. As part of her commitment to continuing professional development, Caroline is committed to continual professional development and is currently undertaking a Masters degree course module in pharmacology at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.

When is Prolotherapy available at 44 Wellington Square?
Caroline Samson will be offering Prolotherapy on Wednesday evenings from 4 - 8 p.m.

Prices
An initial consultation is priced £40 and will include a short treatment, either with Prolotherapy or (if you are not a suitable case for Prolotherapy treatment), with Low Level Laser Therapy.

If eligible for Prolotherapy treatment, you will need weekly sessions for up to six weeks, with ongoing assessment of improvements (which can take between two to six weeks, depending on the individual); a half-hour treatment session will cost £30.

Website links for more info: www.drmtaylor.com.au/

 

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