A Natural Alternative To Cortisone For Joint Pain
As a sports medicine specialist, I see many athletes on the examination table with "hot" inflammation in a joint that is hindering their ability to play their game. In the past, this athlete would have gone to another specialist with the hope of receiving a cortisone injection. Cortisone, they believed, would have them flying off the off the table with an expectation to be back at the game or training immediately. The problem that the medical community and athletes soon found out was that too much of a good thing - cortisone - can lead to a quicker end of the athlete's ability to participate in sports. For sports medicine specialists, an alternative to cortisone is just as important as being able to administer a cortisone injection. For some specialists that alternative is Prolotherapy. Cortisone Cortisone is a naturally occurring steroid in the human body. In the late 1940's and 1950's researchers developed ways to produce it synthetically and make it available o...