I went to a preventative medicine doctor today that does what is called prolo therapy. Very interesting. He told me that I had torn a ligament by my knee and that by taking alleve and an anti-inflammatory medicine I had interupted my bodies natural healing process. He says that your body goes through 3 stages of healing and each stage in necessary to heal properly. If it doesn't go through all 3 you prone to re-injury. So, he put 4 shots directly into my ligament. I believe the shot contained fish oil and some omega 6 (I know, ridiculous I don't know exactly what it was). He says that this will restart my healing process, starting with the inflammatory stage which I had stopped by taking medicine. With this I should heal properly and be able to run again in 2 weeks. When he was explaining everything and said only 2 weeks healing time, I said "give me the shot." My knee is pretty big and was even bigger yesterday. It is pretty stiff, but so far no more pain. We will see what happens. So far, not necessarily a believer, but if I can run in only 2 weeks I will definately be a believer!!
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