Monday, January 14, 2008 DDH hosts prolotherapy mission Monday By Joy Romares-Sevilla
DAVAO Doctors Hospital, one of the biggest hospitals in Davao City, will sponsor a free clinic Monday until Tuesday at the Davao Doctors College Gymnasium.
The free clinic, which is open to all, will introduce the prolotherapy, a method that involves a series of injections designed to produce inflammation in the injured tissue.
The activity is conducted in partnership with a US-based organization that pioneered the practice of prolotherapy, the Hackett Hemwall Foundation.
The foundation will bring in 15 doctors and two nurses from the United States who will conduct the free clinic and who will also train doctors of the DDH about prolotherapy.
Liza Maniquil-Smigel, a prolotherapist, said Thursday that there have been dozens of studies showing benefits of prolotherapy for people with chronic pain as well as those with sports injuries.
She said prolotherapy is appropriate only for patients with musculoskeletal pain who do not have underlying conditions that would interfere with healing and who are willing to receive painful injections in an effort to recover.
"Those patients who will go to the free clinic are required not to take aspirin and other anti-inflammatory medicines," Smigel said.
The free clinic will start at 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday.
