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Glenn, You may find following references of some value. Hackett, GS. (1958) Ligament and tendon relaxation treated by prolotherapy. 3rd Ed. Springfield, Thomas. Hackett, GS et al. (1961) Back pain following trauma and disease- prolotherapy. Military Medicine 126:517-525 Kayfetz, DO et al. (1963) Whiplash injury and other ligamentous headache- Its management with prolotherapy. Headache ??: 21-28 Coleman, AH.(1968) Physician electing to treat by prolotherapy alters the method at his peril. J Natl Med Assoc 60:348 Abraham, I. (1997) Prolotherapy for chronic headache. Headache Apr; 37(4): 256 Hope this helps. Hamayun ______________________________________________________ Hamayun Zafar PT Doctoral Candidate Dept Clin Oral Physiology Umea University Umea, Sweden ______________________________________________________ Glenn Welke wrote on Tue, 28 Apr 1998 05:39:36 >Hello, >A local doctor here in Florida has been using injections of a highly >concentrated dextrose solution to treat a variety of musculoskeletal >problems. My understanding of this technique is that it creates a strong >inflammatory reaction and creates a "scar" and is typically sed to treat >ligamentous laxity. This doctor injects anything and everything. Many of >his patients respond positively. I have done a number of medline searches >and found nothing. This doctor tells his patients that this therapy is >popular in Europe. He has not been responsive to calls from us asking fo >information. If anyone is familiar with this treatment I would appreciate >hearing from you. > >Thanks for reading. >Glenn Welke, PT %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%