Dr. Reeves, Pain Management Clinic: Real Hope with Dextrose and Platelet Prolotherapy
  • Dr. Reeves, Prolotherapy, Kansas City
    • Prolo/PIT: Brief Summary of Both
    • Comparing Prolotherapy and PIT
    • FAQ: About Prolotherapy
  • RESEARCH
    • Basic Science Dextrose >
      • Analgesia
      • Chondrogenesis
      • Tendon injection safe
      • Thickens lIgament
    • Dextrose RCTs >
      • Achilles Tendinopathy
      • Ankle Osteoarthritis
      • Chondromalacia patella
      • Fibromyalgia
      • Hand Osteoarthritis
      • Hip Osteoarthritis
      • Knee Osteoarthritis
      • Lateral Epicondylosis
      • Low Back/Sacroiliac Pain
      • Osgood-Schlatter Disease
      • Plantar Fasciosis
      • Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy
      • Temporomandibular Dysfunction
    • Dextrose Non RCTs >
      • ACL Laxity
      • Groin Pain
      • Patellar Tendinosis
      • Shin Splints
    • PIT Basic Science & Mechanism
    • PIT RCTS >
      • CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
      • CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
    • FINDING RESEARCH
  • TRAINING IN PROLO/PIT
  • PATIENTS
    • PRP Use
    • Stem Cell Use
    • New Patient Intake Forms
    • What to expect in more detail
    • Directions to Office
    • Fiinding a Doctor
    • When Will I Feel Better With Prolotherapy?
  • HOPE

HOPE

Reasons to have hope:  Combination prolo/PIT,
​PRP, and ultrasound exactness
There is reason to have hope for control of pain in the most difficult cases.  Approximately eighty  percent of those who have failed multiple other treatments respond to prolotherapy.  The difference in recent years is that, armed with:
● The combination of prolotherapy and perineural injection treatment,
● The power of platelet rich plasma in certain situations, and
● The exactness of treatment with high resolution ultrasound.
more of those that improve are achieving complete resolution of their pain, rather than merely improving, and  as advances continue, the improvement rate appears to be increasing further. 

In addition, there is hope for those that have previously failed prololotherapy, PRP, and stem cell injections. The differences that allow for success with such patients are several:
● Much more comprehensive treatment approaches in which the entire source of pain is completely identified and treated.   This is by including all nerve, ligament, tendon, muscle and joint sources. 
● Treating with a combination of prolotherapy and perineural injection simultaneously. ( See the General Information page for a basic explanation of the differences.) 
● Utilizing ultrasound for all injections  except just under the skin, and minimizing contact with the bone surface.  This is different than traditional approaches. For many  years we have thought  we would stimulate more growth and repair  by aggressively contacting the surface of bone while injecting.  However, I  have become convinced that small nerve irritation is part of  what keeps chronic pain going, and I am recommending gentle bone contact, which ultrasound allows.  This avoids irritation of  small nerves that cover our bone surfaces in the process of treatment, and allows for a more comfortable recovery period.  No pain, no gain, does not appear to be correct any longer in my  experience. 

● Using anesthetic with dextrose for superficial and deeper numbing, which makes the treatment so much more comfortable that comprehensive treatment is feasible, and specifically using a method of tumescent-like anesthesia that allows for more anesthetic use without risk of side effects from the anesthetic.  
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Dispair is a common feeling of patients when first seen
Because I  practice comprehensive treatment, and see very complex and difficult patients, often from considerable distance, I often see patients in despair of ever getting better, at times to the point of questioning if life is worth living any more.  It has been a joy to see those patients improve. However, my concern is a tendency  for these patients to feel hopeless and to question if there is a God, or if so, if God really cares.  Some people even have the depressing and mistaken notion that their pain is a "punishment" in some way for something that they have done wrong.  

Successful pain treatment and faith BOTH help encourage patients
​I have put together some information meant to encourage faith in a God who cares tremendously, and as a scientist, I find the evidence for just such a God compelling.  It has been my aim to make this very readable, and I invite you to take a look by clicking on "faith encouragement" below  to open up that part of this web site. 

​Kind regards, 

Dr Reeves
Faith Encouragement

"Real Hope for Chronic Pain"
We use dextrose and platelet prolotherapy to eliminate the causes of chronic pain.
           The treatment is like acupuncture but with injection of a solution that heals irritable nerves, stabilizes and calms arthritic joints  and repairs/regenerates sprains and strains in your body.
Contact us today for more information.

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Dr. K. Dean Reeves, MD P.A.
913-362-1600
4740 El Monte Street, Roeland Park, Kansas  66205


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  • Dr. Reeves, Prolotherapy, Kansas City
    • Prolo/PIT: Brief Summary of Both
    • Comparing Prolotherapy and PIT
    • FAQ: About Prolotherapy
  • RESEARCH
    • Basic Science Dextrose >
      • Analgesia
      • Chondrogenesis
      • Tendon injection safe
      • Thickens lIgament
    • Dextrose RCTs >
      • Achilles Tendinopathy
      • Ankle Osteoarthritis
      • Chondromalacia patella
      • Fibromyalgia
      • Hand Osteoarthritis
      • Hip Osteoarthritis
      • Knee Osteoarthritis
      • Lateral Epicondylosis
      • Low Back/Sacroiliac Pain
      • Osgood-Schlatter Disease
      • Plantar Fasciosis
      • Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy
      • Temporomandibular Dysfunction
    • Dextrose Non RCTs >
      • ACL Laxity
      • Groin Pain
      • Patellar Tendinosis
      • Shin Splints
    • PIT Basic Science & Mechanism
    • PIT RCTS >
      • CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
      • CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
    • FINDING RESEARCH
  • TRAINING IN PROLO/PIT
  • PATIENTS
    • PRP Use
    • Stem Cell Use
    • New Patient Intake Forms
    • What to expect in more detail
    • Directions to Office
    • Fiinding a Doctor
    • When Will I Feel Better With Prolotherapy?
  • HOPE