March April 2017 Bif Naked Issue

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Prolozone For Lower Back Spasms By Dr. Caleb Ng

In my 15 years of practicing as a naturopathic physician, I have yet to come across a therapy as effective as prolozone for lower back spasms. Often I see patients who have debilitating back spasms caused by lifting heavy loads, some sort of repetitive strain injury or simply just twisting and lifting at just the right angle (or wrong angle, depending on how you see it). There are a few reasons why lower back strains can be considerably persistent injuries. The first is that any type of muscle strain involves torn muscle fibres which will signal pain resulting in the remaining and surrounding muscle fibres to activate in a compensatory contraction. Although, this “guarding” occurs to prevent further injury to the area, it also leads to further lactic acid production which contributes to more discomfort and further contraction creating a feedback loop of muscle spasm and pain.

you are reclined or lying down, is used just about every waking hour. Prolozone utilizes the healing power of ozone, which can be thought of as highly energized oxygen, as well as medicalgrade oxygen as well. A freezing solution of a short-acting local anesthetic is first injected along with an anti-inflammatory as well as specific vitamins and minerals that are useful to repair cells. This is followed by ozone and oxygen. The anesthetic and antiinflammatory agent can immediately relax a spasmed muscle and allow more blood flow to the area resulting in immediate pain-relief and the ozone stimulates local repair and the oxygen allows repair cells to do their job.

As one patient put it after a treatment, “Last time my back went out I was in so much pain I went to the Emergency Room and waited four hours to get a Secondly, the resulting muscle muscle relaxant that didn’t do spasm leads to reduced blood flow anything. When I got prolozone resulting in less vital repair cells it worked right away! From now and nutrients accessing the area on, if my back goes out this is and a compromise of essential where I’m coming.” detoxification of the accumulating Prolozone is a safe and effective lactic acid. treatment for immediate relief

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