Q. What does Dr. Maxwell actually do to treat conditions of pain and dysfunction?

A. Dr. Maxwell began his career as a Chiropractic Physician. Consequently he has been able to combine Chiropractic Structural Principles with the original German Neural Therapy concepts of Dr. Huneke, as well as the Intraneural methods developed in South Africa by Dr. Pybus, with the ‘specific injection’ techniques pioneered by Dr. Philibert in Louisiana, and Prolotherapy techniques developed by Dr. Hackett in Illinois. This makes for a very effective and successful modality. Dr. Maxwell combines manipulation and alignment procedures with injections into specific areas.

Q. I understand the idea of alignment and manipulation, but where does Dr. Maxwell inject?

A. The injections can be made into scars, acupuncture points, nerve bundles in the autonomic system, fascia and ‘trigger points’and with prolotherapy into ligament and tendon attachments. The success of the treatment depends on the skill and experience of the Physician in knowing where and how much to inject.

Q. What is the purpose of these injections and what do they accomplish?

A. Neural and intraneural injections can remove interference in the bodies electrical network and thus relieve chronic pain, reverse injury, and clear energy blockages, helping to regulate energy throughout the body. Prolotherapy actually stimulates the body to repair and strengthen ligament or tendon attachments.

Q. What is actually injected?

A. Lidocaine for neural and intraneural therapy and Lidocaine plus various percentages of dextrose for prolotherapy.

Q. I thought Lidocaine was just a local anesthetic and would ‘numb’ the area injected but would wear off after some time with a return of pain. What does it do?

A. Most people including many Doctors believe that local anesthetics are just for temporally blocking pain . Nothing could be further from the truth. Local anesthetics have incredible tissue normalizing ability and are known nerve stabilizers as described in numerous textbooks. They have been in common use for that purpose in Europe since the 1930’s. However, unless the injections are made very accurately into the exact points results can be less than optimum. This is where experience counts. Specifically when a nerve is damaged by either trauma or excessive stretching, the polarity changes and electrons or negatively charged particles escape. This not only results in pain but also a constriction of the surrounding tissue and muscles, resulting in a lack of circulation and therefore oxygen to the surrounding tissue. This results in more pain. If the oxygen level is still lower there can be feelings of numbness, "pins and needles" and even reduced strength in muscles. The injection of local anesthetic into the nerve-muscle junction not only repolarizes the nerve but allows the tissue to relax with the results that fresh oxygenated blood will restore normal function to the area. This can take place in seconds.

Q. Is the treatment painful?

A. This depends from person to person. Dr. Maxwell is very skilled after having treated thousands of patients. Any pain only lasts seconds.

Q. Can these treatments help everyone?

A. Each patient must be evaluated thoroughly. Success depends on factors which include the history of damage to the patient, the patients overall health and ability to heal, and any underlying nutritional deficiencies that would impede the healing process.

Q. What areas of the body can be treated?

A. This form of therapy can be used to treat any joint or painful area including headache (Migraine) Tempero Mandibular joint dysfunction. Neck pain for any traumatic reason including whiplash. Shoulders. Elbows (tennis elbow) wrist (carpal tunnel Syndrome). Disc problems at any level of the spine. Low back including sciatica. Hips, Knees and Feet. The pain of arthritis and fibromyalgia usually respond well to this treatment. This therapy affects only the area treated and does not cause any problem in any other area.

Q. How often do I need these treatments?

A . Some patients have complete resolution in one treatment. However for best results treatments should be administered every one to two weeks for at least four sessions in each treated area. Some chronic cases can require 8 to 10 sessions for complete resolution. Fibromyalgia often requires treatment twice a month for several months.

Q. What is the rate of success in treatment?

A. The anticipated rate of success depends on a number of variables, including the patients history and ability to heal. We experience at least a 95% success rate when the patient follows through with the required number of treatments. No guarantee of cure can be made.

Q. What are the costs involved in this treatment?

A. New patient: First visit: $250.00 U.S. Includes consultation, examination and same day treatment with neural, intraneural or prolotherapy. Also included if necessary and desired, full body alignment techniques and spinal manipulation. Follow up treatments: $200.00 U.S. Please understand that even when the pain is no longer felt the areas may still be tender to palpation. Experience by all doctors using these techniques prove that for optimum results a minimum of 4 treatments is best. We do not offer credit and all fees are payable by cash or check at time of service. We do not issue receipts for insurance companies and will not correspond with them.

Q . How do these fees compare to U.S. practitioners?

A . Most U.S. Doctors charge a fee of more than $500 dollars for the 1st visit. The most common therapy fee is $300 per area. That is one knee. One side of the low back. One shoulder etc. One treatment can cost several hundred dollars. The number one reason for partial pain relief with Prolotherapy is not completing the full course of Prolotherapy sessions. It is important that the patient does not become disappointed if the pain is not relieved after one or two sessions, especially a patient who has been in pain for decades. I have had severe pain cases require only one treatment and relatively simple cases require six sessions. Ross A. Hauser, M.D. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Specialist

Q. If this treatment is really so fantastic and gets such great results why aren’t the big medical centers and many more Doctors using it?

A. The greatest reason there are not more practitioners is because the pharmaceutical industry largely runs the practice of allopathic medicine in North America. The local anesthetics used in these treatments have come off patent years ago. There is really no profit for these companies who focus on new patented products they can make huge profits from. Also because of the ‘greed’ factor, companies focus on products to treat symptoms, with treatments that are then on-going rather than curative. Consequently these techniques are not taught in medical schools nor to mainstream Doctors. Only the enthusiasm of truth seeking, open minded physicians keeps them alive and available.

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