Prolotherapy for ligament laxity

I'm not sure about NHS coverage of prolotherapy for ligament laxity of the spine. However, you can find a list of prolotherapy practitioners who are members of the British Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine BIMM

Thanks for your help and advice, rooted.

Thanks also for the link.

You're welcome DS. Please let us know if you find a prolotherapy expert and/or how the treatment goes. Good luck!

Thanks for your reply, rooted.

I'll let you know if I find someone and how it goes.

I'm still awaiting to be seen by a consultant at the moment as the one I was originally sent to see by G.Ps choice doesn't want to see me for reasons unknown so I am now going to see a different one as alarm bells rang when I heard he doesn't want to see me as I've read that this is a sign of a not-so-good consultant.

So far I'm still waiting as, for some reason I was told that now my condition is chronic and not acute I have to wait for ages, I don't know why. Sometimes I think so-called health care professionals don't take their patient's conditions seriously at all.

Once I have seen a different consultant and he's told me a bit more about my condition, I'll ask him about prolotherapy as I think it will be particularly suitable for what I've got (as far as my G.P made out that I've got lax ligaments, making my spine unstable, though he isn't a spine specialist so I would certainly appreciate seeing a spine specialist - a good one though, not one that says he doesn't want to see me and not give me a reason why. I think some consultants are awfully rude to their patients and they constantly think they are God! At the end of the day they are only human but, seriously they should start treating their patients with much more respect than they currently do.

Thanks once again, rooted and I'll let you know what happens.

Hi, screaney and thanks for your reply.

My G.P and physiotherapist didn't specify a particular part. I think they meant I had it generally but it could be affecting my spine. I did do some tests like those ones where they look to see how far your finger can bend or similar sorts of tests like that. After I'd done these tests they then came to the conclusion I may have hypermobility syndrome or some sort of syndrome that makes me extra bendy as I did seem more flexible generally, even my hands/fingers. I haven't noticed it affecting any of my other parts as in giving me pain or problems. My hands have long, slender fingers which I think could be a sign of bendyness as apparently tall people are prone to it mainly. My spine seems to be the main part that is affected.

I don't exactly remember doing anything immediatly and feeling the pain but my physiotherapist said that he reckoned it could've been an old injury that has flared up now from 10 years ago when I was a kid and I perhaps did something like falling over. He thinks it is from an impact like falling on my bottom or something. The only thing that I can remember doing is falling out of a hammock onto my bottom from when the hammock broke and fell onto the floor. I don't remember feeling injured or any pain as such then. I just remember getting back up and that's it. Apart from that I can't really remember doing anything as far as I know.

I am UK based and am finding it hard to find many ones with testimonials as there isn't a great lot of them currently around my area. rooted gave me a good link to the BIMM site which I found helpful. I'm in the West Midlands area so a bit rural.

Thanks for sharing your advice and link.