Dr. Darrow’s Prolotherapy Blog

A number of my patients that suffer from wrist pain are golfers. Here is a recent Prolotherapy success story that I thought you might enjoy reading. The patient, James Lee, is a professional golfer.

My name is James Lee and I played on the UCLA Men’s Golf team from 2005-2009. I played golf my whole life and have encountered numerous of injuries. The most critical injury was a tear in the Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex of my left wrist (TFCC) due to the many years of pounding balls.

The wrist pain started when I was a junior golfer but I chose to fight through it and compete with an injured wrist until I could no longer endure the pain. It wasn’t until I got an MRI scan and found out that it was a serious injury which could jeopardize my career. I was informed that the TFCC didn’t have the ability to heal on its own and surgery, which had less than a 75% success rate, was the only other option I had left.

It wasn’t until I was introduced to Dr. Darrow, a Prolotherapist trained at UCLA , that I had another alternative.  Dr. Darrow treated me with Prolotherapy injections, which created collagen to repair the tear. There were no side effects to these shots and with each injection the pain in my wrist slowly subsided. My surgeon then ordered an MRI arthogram.  The results showed complete healing of the TFCC.  The surgery I entertained could have ended my golf career.

I feel fortunate that I was introduced to Prolotherapy before having a surgery that could have ended my golf career. A month ago, I entered my dream and went Pro. I have been playing golf 6 days per week, hitting thousands of golf balls, and to my surgeon’s amazement, pain free. He told me that he has never seen one of these injuries heal without surgery. I am grateful for Prolotherapy and Dr. Darrow.

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