Treatment By Sport

Treatment By Injury

Caring Medical & Rehabilitation Services • 715 Lake St. • Suite 600 • Oak Park, IL 60301 • 708-848-7789

PROLOTHERAPY IS A NON-SURGICAL OPTION FOR SPORTS INJURY!

With Prolotherapy, you can
keep training, get back in the game/event quickly, no down time, no long rehab required, alternative to the much-feared often career-ending surgeries...

Chicago Sports Medicine Videos

Why hasn't my orthopedist heard of Prolotherapy?
Dr. Ross Hauser of Caring Medical in Oak Park, Illinois discusses why your orthopedic doctor may not have heard about Prolotherapy.

Is PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) another form of Prolotherapy or is it something new?
Dr. Ross Hauser of Caring Medical in Oak Park, Illinois talks about PRP, Platelet Rich Plasma, is it new or is it another form of Prolotherapy?

How long should I wait after an injury before getting Prolotherapy?
Dr. Ross Hauser of Caring Medical in Oak Park, Illinois answers the question regarding how long someone should wait after an injury before getting Prolotherapy.

How does Prolotherapy assist in healing ligament and tendon injuries?
Dr. Ross Hauser of Caring Medical in Oak Park, Illinois answers the question of how Prolotherapy can help in healing ligament and tendon injuries.

What types of athletes have you treated?
Dr. Ross Hauser of Caring Medical and Rehabilitation Services in Oak Park, Illinois talks about the wide array of athletes he has treated at his clinic.

Does being an athlete yourself help you to be a good doctor to athletes?
Dr. Ross Hauser of Caring Medical and Rehabilitation Services in Oak Park, Illinois discusses his being an athlete and how that has helped him understand the mindset of other athletes and also become a good doctor to them.

Runner's Knee - Knee injury treatment
Dr. Ross Hauser, is the Medical Director of Caring Medical & Rehabilitation Services who specializes in Prolotherapy treatment for runner's knee and other sports injuries. In this video he discusses why Prolotherapy is the preferred treatment for runner's knee over knee surgery, such as arthroscopic surgery. Prolotherapy stimulates the body to repair, whereas surgery typically involves the removal of tissue which leads to arthritis. Dr. Hauser treats patients from around the world who come to his Chicago Sports Medicine clinic for Prolotherapy.

Arthroscopic surgery risks in young athletes
Ross Hauser, MD is the Medical Director of Caring Medical & Rehabilitation Services in Oak Park, Illinois. In this video he discusses the long term risks of arthroscopic surgery in young athletes. Prolotherapy offers a non-surgical alternative to surgery for permanent results that allows the runner or athlete to keep training. If an athlete has already had knee surgery, shoulder surgery, or other arthroscopic surgery and still has pain, Prolotherapy treatments can still be done for joint rehabilitation after surgery.

Prolotherapy Treatment for Knee Injuries
Dr. Ross Hauser is the Medical Director of Caring Medical and Rehabilitation Services, in Chicagoland. Dr. Hauser is a full-time Prolotherapy doctor whose goal is to help athletes with a knee injury get back to their sport quickly without cortisone injections, anti-inflammatories, or knee surgery! To learn more about becoming a patient, visit www.caringmedical.com.

Platelet Rich Plasma - When to use PRP for sports injury treatment
Dr. Ross Hauser is a full time Prolotherapy doctor who treats chronic pain and sports injuries with Prolotherapy injection treatments. In addition to Prolotherapy, Platelet Rich Plasma, or PRP, may be added to the Prolotherapy solution for specific sports rehabilitation treatments. In this video, Dr. Hauser explains the need for Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy injections for most chronic pain conditions, and when to add Platelet Rich Plasma to the Prolotherapy treatment. To contact us about becoming a patient, visit www.caringmedical.com.

Prolotherapy for Athletes with Hip, Pelvic or Groin Pain
Dr. Ross Hauser is a full time Prolotherapy doctor and Medical Director of Caring Medical & Rehabilitation Services in Chicagoland. In this video he explains how Prolotherapy injections for pain in the pubic symphasis, groin pain. Athletes with a groin injury, pelvic injury, or lower abdomen pain who participate in running sports should consider a Prolotherapy consultation to get back to their sport faster. For more information about Prolotherapy and Prolotherapy doctors, visit us at www.caringmedical.com.

Prolotherapy results in athletes. Do injured athletes need MRI's?
Dr. Hauser is a Prolotherapy doctor who specializes in treating difficult sports injury and chronic pain cases. In this video, he discusses the reason why some athletes may not receive optimal Prolotherapy results after a series of Prolotherapy injections, depending on the type of sports injury and Prolotherapy doctors technique. He also reviews the accuracy of MRI in younger athletes and older athletes with joint pain. Lastly, he discusses the average course of getting an athlete back in the game with Prolotherapy treatment. For information on seeing Dr. Hauser for your knee injury treatment or other sports injury, visit us at www.caringmedical.com.

Can Prolotherapy Help Sports Injuries in Runners and Athletes in Running Sports?
Dr. Ross Hauser is a full time Prolotherapy doctor who specializes in difficult to treat cases of chronic pain and sports injuries, utilizing Prolotherapy injection treatments. In this video, he discusses common conditions including runner's knee, torn meniscus, plantar fasciitis, and heel pain in running sports.

Prolotherapy for Runners with Foot and Ankle Injuries
Dr. Ross Hauser is a full time Prolotherapy doctor who specializes in difficult to treat cases of chronic pain and sports injuries, utilizing Prolotherapy injection treatments. In this video, he discusses common foot and ankle pain conditions he sees in athletes who run, including chronic ankle sprains, plantar fasciitis, and heel pain in running sports. For information on Prolotherapy and to see Dr. Hauser for your sports injury, visit www.caringmedical.com.

Young Athletes Should Avoid Surgery
Ross Hauser, MD is the Medical Director of Caring Medical & Rehabilitation Services in Oak Park, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. Dr. Hauser is a Prolotherapy doctor who treats athletes and chronic pain patients from around the world, specializing in difficult chronic pain and sports injury cases. In this video, he presents the argument against surgery in young athletes who have a sports injury, such as a torn meniscus, torn ACL injury, or other sports injuries. Prolotherapy should be considered to keep the athlete training, and keep surgery off his or her resume. Dr. Hauser's Prolotherapy technique provides an alternative to surgery, as well as a way to alleviate chronic pain resulting after these surgeries. For more information, and to become a patient, visit www.caringmedical.com.

Sports Injury Rehabilitation Treatments to Avoid
Ross Hauser, MD is the Medical Director of Caring Medical & Rehabilitation Services in Oak Park, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. Dr. Hauser is a Prolotherapy doctor who treats athletes and chronic pain patients from around the world, specializing in difficult chronic pain and sports injury cases. In this video, he discusses the situation an injured athlete is often places in when an athlete's trainer or coach recommends RICE treatment, NSAIDs or cortisone, which all inhibit healing and increase chances of developing arhtritis long term. In his clinic, Prolotherapy is used as a non-surgical rehab treatment to get athletes back to playing faster, without the damaging effects of the traditional treatments. For more information, and to become a patient, visit www.caringmedical.com.

Platelet Rich Plasma PRP injections for Athletes
Platelet Rich Plasma, or PRP injections, have been a hot topic in athletic rehab. Dr. Ross Hauser, Medical Director of Caring Medical in Chicagoland, discusses his experience with treating injured athletes with PRP and important factors for those considering Platelet Rich Plasma. PRP is a form of Prolotherapy, an injection technique that stimulates the body to repair the painful area. If you are considering Platelet Rich Plasma, please read more about the use of PRP with Prolotherapy to optimize your joint rehab at www.caringmedical.com.

Alternative to Fusion Surgery
Ross Hauser, MD is the Medical Director of Caring Medical in Chicago land. He is a full time Prolotherapy doctor who specializes in tough cases of sports injuries and chronic pain. He offers patients an alternative to fusion surgery, as well as treats pain after failed back surgery, or other surgery such as a knee replacement. In this video, Dr. Hauser discusses how spinal fusion, wrist fusion, cervical fusion, and ankle fusion surgery do not correct the underlying issue and have poor long term results. However, Prolotherapy can address and correct the underlying need to stabilize the painful area, and eliminate pain. Thanks for your interest in Prolotherapy! To learn more about becoming a patient, please visit us at www.caringmedical.com.

Can Prolotherapy help Failed Back Surgery Syndrome?
Ross Hauser, MD is Medical Director of Caring Medical in Chicago land, specializing in Prolotherapy for tough cases of sports injuries, and chronic pain. In this video, he reviews how Prolotherapy can help Failed Back Surgery Syndrome and Failed Lumbar Fusion pain. We treat patients here successfully with Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy who have back pain after surgery. For anyone considering back surgery, we offer an alternative to back surgery and lumbar fusion. However, for patients who already had back surgery and still have pain, we encourage you to contact us for Prolotherapy. Learn more at www.caringmedical.com.

Prolotherapy for Shoulder Injuries and Instability
Ross Hauser, MD is the Medical Director of Caring Medical and Rehabilitation Services. He is a full time Prolotherapy doctor who specializes in Prolotherapy for difficult cases of sports injuries and chronic pain. In this video, he discusses the use of Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy treatment for shoulder instability. This is common in swimming, tennis, and throwing sports, in addition to contact sports injuries such as football or hockey. Thanks for your interest in Prolotherapy! To become a patient and learn more about Prolotherapy injections as a non-surgical alternative to sports injuries, visit us at: www.caringmedical.com.

Prolotherapy for Ligament Laxity and Hypermobility
Ross Hauser, MD is Medical Director of Caring Medical in Chicago land, specializing in Prolotherapy for tough cases of sports injuries and full body chronic pain and arthritis. In this video, Dr. Hauser reviews his use of Prolotherapy for hypermobility syndrome, including benign congenital hypermobility, and cases diagnosed as fibromyalgia or myofascial pain syndrome. In our experience, Prolotherapy is the treatment of choice for hypermobility syndromes. To learn more and become a patient, see our Prolotherapy information at: http://www.caringmedical.com/therapies/prolotherapy.asp.

Do Prolotherapy results last?
Ross Hauser, MD is a full time Prolotherapy physician in Chicago land. He treats people from around the world who have tough cases of chronic pain and sports injuries. In this video, he reviews the long term results of Prolotherapy. In our experience at Caring Medical, Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy and sometimes a comprehensive natural medicine program, are extremely successful for cases that include athletes with runner's knee, menicus injury, failed back surgery, failed fusion, shoulder injury, labral tear, RSD, chronic regional pain syndrome, Ehlers-danlos syndrome, and nearly every other pain condition. Once healed, the results last long term and the treated body area ages naturally with the rest of the body. For more information on Prolotherapy and to become a patient, visit:http://www.caringmedical.com/therapies/prolotherapy.asp.

What is Comprehensive, or Hackett-Hemwall, Prolotherapy?
Ross Hauser, MD is the Medical Director of Caring Medical in Oak Park, Illinois. He is a full time Prolotherapy physician, who specializes in treating difficult cases of sports injuries and chronic pain since 1993. At Caring Medical we treat patients who travel to our office from around the globe, often after unsuccessful surgeries, physical therapy, cortisone injections, chiropractic care, and Prolotherapy. We utilize Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy, or comprehensive Prolotherapy, as Dr. Hauser explains in this video. If you are interested in our opinion on your case and an appointment with Dr. Hauser, please visit: http://caringmedical.com/therapies/prolotherapy.asp
Thanks for your interest in Prolotherapy!

Exercising After Prolotherapy
Prolotherapy is a great alternative to surgery, cortisone shots, and pain medications for athletes and people suffering in chronic pain. Caring Medical is headed by Dr. Ross Hauser who is a full time Prolotherapy doctor. We specialize in getting athletes back on the playing field and people back to their activities. In this video, he discusses the average time to get back to exercise after Prolotherapy. To learn more about why patients travel from all around the world to receive Prolotherapy with Dr. Hauser, please visit us at: http://caringmedical.com/therapies/prolotherapy.asp

Jumper's Knee Treatment
Knee pain, including jumper's knee, patella pain, and ACL tears typically responds very well to Prolotherapy injections. In our experience, we utilize Hackett Hemwall Prolotherapy to comprehensively treat the knee. In this video, Ross Hauser, MD explains how Prolotherapy can be used as a treatment for jumper's knee. Got pain? Get Prolo! Learn more about Prolotherapy by visiting our site at: http://caringmedical.com/therapies/prolotherapy.asp

Stretching exercises for Athletic rehabilitation
Is stretching the best way to recover from a sports injury? Not always! Sometimes overstretching can actually contribute to further joint instability and chronic pain. In cases of ligament laxity and joint pain, Prolotherapy is used to treat the root cause of the problem. Learn more about Prolotherapy by visiting our site at http://www.caringmedical.com/prolotherapy

Prolotherapy treatment to a Knee
In this video, Ross Hauser, MD demonstrates Hackett-Hemwall dextrose Prolotherapy to a knee. You can see it is a very quick treatment, yet comprehensive in that he thoroughly treats the ligaments attachments as well as intraarticularly. Knee pain is the most common complaint we treat in our office. We have a very high success rate using Prolotherapy as an alternative to knee surgery, and helping people regain an active lifestyle and get off pain medications. If you would like to learn more about our method of Prolo, as well as our Prolotherapy research and information on becoming a patient here, visit us at http://www.caringmedical.com/prolotherapy

Achilles Tendon Prolotherapy Treatment
Achilles tendon tears or pain is treated in this video with Comprehensive dextrose Prolotherapy, by Ross A. Hauser, MD. Typically patients can return to activities very quickly using Prolo for a torn achilles tendon, or achilles heel pain. If you would like to learn more about our method of Prolotherapy, as well as our research and information on becoming a patient here, visit us at http://www.caringmedical.com/prolotherapy

Prolotherapy for acute injuries
Can Prolotherapy be used for an acute injury? Yes! In this video, Dr. Hauser discusses the use of Prolotherapy for recent injuries, versus only chronic pain conditions. If you would like to learn more about our method of Prolotherapy, as well as our research and information on becoming a patient here, visit us at http://www.caringmedical.com/prolotherapy