![]() Cissus – I read about this in the 4 Hour Body book by Tim Ferris (which is great, by the way).I do think that Egoscue is great for improving posture and overall health, but I’m not so sure that it is a specific tool for healing this precise injury. Egoscue – I mentioned that I was trying this out, but ultimately I couldn’t keep up with the demand of following my ‘e-cises’ 4-5 a week, at an hour each day.I haven’t completely abandoned it, I’m just not so sure it’s the right solution here. I decided a few months later that I was going to put this treatment option on hold and explore a few other things first. The plasma seriously irritates the knee, and it hurt. This was really, really painful for the first 24 hours. Finally just the plasma was injected back into me, but this time directly into the problem area of the knee. What they did is draw my blood, then that blood went through several spin processes to separate the plasma from everything else. This treatment is really popular right now, and you’ll hear a lot of professional athletes (Tiger Woods, Troy Polamalu, LaRon Landry) talking about the success they had with it. Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) – I only did this once, so I can’t give a fair review here.Sounds good in theory, and there are a lot of people who claim to have had amazing success with this, but no such luck for this guy. The theory behind this is that the solution irritates that area so much, that the body sends new (and lots) of blood to the injury, thus restarting the healing process. Prolotherapy – This is similar to PRP (below)… basically they inject a glucose solution into the problem area.I know these are a miracle drug for some, but it was only a superficial healing for me and it faded away rather quickly. Cortisone Injections – the relief from these injections were instant, but lasted only 8-12 hours. ![]() These did relieve pain temporarily (4-24 hours), but there was no long-lasting improvement Iontophoresis – These are little patches that use electricity to put cortisone deep into the tendon.8 Weeks of Physical Therapy – unfortunately this didn’t help, and it wasn’t fully covered by my insurance, so it was pricey for something that brought about no change.So I’ve been exploring and testing all my options… literally all of my options. I don’t want to get surgery Patellar Tendonitis does not have a good track record of getting cured via surgery. An x-ray and MRI later, the family doctor’s diagnosis was confirmed (sorry for doubting, Dr. To make a long story short, I doubted the family doctor and went to see an orthopedist who specializes in knees. He sent me home with a printout of some stretches and exercises I could do to make it go away, but those unfortunately didn’t help at all. He did some remedial tests and diagnosed me with Patellar Tendonitis. I really wanted a treatment to make the injury go away, not just treat the symptoms.Īfter giving it a few weeks, I decided to make an appointment at the family doctor to see what was up. Sporting a knee brace to keep my knee warm and ‘restricted’ during sports.
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