| My Aching Joints
Question 1: It is my understanding
that Mesotherapy is beneficial for pain reduction. Can you
please explain?
Answer: Mesotherapy can be effective
for pain management along with some nutraceutical/ botanical
protocols and occasionally prescriptive medications. The advantage
to Mesotherapy is you are able to deliver medications and/or
homeopathic and vitamin preparations to the specific area
of pain allowing the medication or nutraceutical/ botanical
to be absorbed at the particular site of inflammation.
Question 2: Is Mesotherapy appropriate
for muscle spasms and chronic pain?
Answer: Mesotherapy can be quite
efficacious with the patients with various muscle spasm, fibromyalgia,
and myositis.
For the patients with chronic
pain, Mesotherapy can be helpful to deliver the therapeutics
to the areas that need the attention the most. It also helps
repair underlying connective tissue. Mesotherapy does have
some good efficacious use for various types of neuropathic
pain.
Question 3: I do suffer from
migraine headaches and is there any therapeutic that would
be efficacious for this?
Answer: Mesotherapy can be efficacious
for some of our patients with migraines depending on the location
of the migraine. Also doing integrated nutraceutical/ botanical
plan for migraine therapeutics can be helpful especially utilizing
the COX-2 naturals.
Question 4: With postsurgical
scarring and neuropathic pain, is Mesotherapy an effective
modality?
Answer: Mesotherapy has been
utilized postsurgically in helping with resolution of pain
along with some significant improvement in pain. The particular
Mesotherapeutic mixtures can vary according to the location
and type of pain.
Question 5: Are there any secondary
benefits to Mesotherapy?
Answer: Mesotherapy does have
a broad range of therapeutic benefits. It is also helpful
with reduction of adipose tissue and it does have some benefits
with cellulite reduction.
With Mesotherapy you are able
to deliver some of the thermogenic properties, i.e., fat burning
with nutraceutical/ botanicals into the area that seems to
be most problematic.
Question 6: How many sessions
will a person need?
Answer: About four to five sessions
for pain therapeutics, cosmetic Mesotherapy will vary.
Question 7: Will there be bruising?
Answer: Mild bruising can at
times happen depending on the therapeutic modality used.
If we can be of any further assistance,
please feel free to contact our office.
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