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Dr. Douglas is an Osteopathic Physician                                                  Board Certified in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine                                                                  She specializes in the Regenerative Medicine of                                                     Prolotherapy and Platelet Rich Plasma

Call or email for your free screening by phone to find out if you are a candidate for these treatments!                                                                                                                                                                           303 988 1825 Ext #2                                                                         DrJoAnnDouglas@Yahoo.com

Medical Tourism:

What if you didn't have to travel out of the country to get replacement surgery to repair your knee or hip in order to avoid the high cost of replacement surgery in the United States?  In fact, what if you didn't have to get surgery at all?  And, what if the savings could be 400% on the cost of replacement surgery in other countries?  More and more some employees are getting medical tourism reimbursed through their employers - American based companies who want to save on health care costs for their employees.  But what if you could avoid surgery, heal your joint problem (even a surgical replacement) and pay $4,000 instead of $12,000 without ANY invasive surgery?!  Would you look into it?  Would your employer?

A replacement in the United States is upward of $100,000.  Orthopedic surgeries in general are $30,000 - 40,000!

In most cases Prolotherapy is the option that works to avoid all types of musculoskeletal surgeries!  There is no down time and no recovery time.

Most of our patients pay $2,000 - 4,000 to remedy musculoskeletal problems that may be decades in the making, and which involve chronic pain, long term use of pain medications, steroid injections, physical therapy, and chiropractic treatments all of which have not fixed the pain and dysfunction. Usually patients simply continue to worsen.

There is a solution.

It's a solution that everyday people and pro athletes, like Hines Ward, a wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers are turning to more and more - regenerative injection therapies.

                              Musculoskeletal pain and problems?

You know you are a candidate for Prolotherapy if you have one or more of the following:

    1. Pain in a joint or the back which continues beyond 3 months after an injury (any joint pain and dysfunction regardless of etiology)
    2. Limitations in movement or limitation to moblility in general, including: loss of ability to bend, stretch, twist, reach, push, pull
    3. Loss of activities to daily life and other activities, such as sports. Any loss of activity due to musculoskeletal issues
    4. Your joints do not move the way they used to
    5. You've had or been told you need cortisone or surgery for your back or joints, a pain block or other pharmaceutical injections, a joint replacement, synovial fluid, fusion, or arthroscopic surgery (cleaning and scraping
    6. Degeneration of the ligament, tendon, or cartilage in your joints, neck or back
    7. Arthritis
    8. Your joints have one or more of the following: swelling, pain, burning, tenderness, clicking, popping, grinding, catching, or giving way
    9. Numbness, tingling, aching, weakness of the joints, buckling of the legs or bulging, protruding, herniated or degenerating disc
    10. Chiropractic doesn't fix the problem, you must return for the same problem and you get only temporary relief
    11. Going to a physical therapist does not improve your ability to use your joint or your back and/or the pain is the same or it's worse
    12. You're seeing a massage therapist for muscular relief and relaxation but you still have pain in your joint or back
    13. You're seeing a doctor for pain management and/or you're taking pain medicine but it's not helping. You take supplements for your pain and joints but it only gives minimal relief or no longer gives relief
    14. You have been fitted with custom orthotics but it's still not enough
    15. You've tried "everything" and nothing seems to help 

If you've had an injury to any of the areas listed below, or you have arthritis or a reduction in function such as reductions in mobility, flexiblity, and strength, or you have ongoing pain in these areas, you are a candidate for Prolotherapy.

Areas of pain and degeneration treated: toe, foot, heel, ankle, knee, pelvis, hip, sciatica, sacrum, back, scapula, neck, shoulder, jaw, elbow, wrist, thumb, finger, hand, rib

                         YOU Have the Solution!

              Note: If you are new to Prolotherapy, please go to the FAQs page.

ABOUT REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

An almost quiet revolution is occurring in medicine. It's called regenerative medicine.

Regenerative medicine spans many innovative medical therapies and medical fields of application and research. In dentistry it's sometimes called reconstruction or grafting.. In orthopedics its called biological medicine or orthobiologics. In biology, it's called cell or stem cell therapy.  In prolotherapy, regenerative medicine is now often referred to as regenerative injection therapy or RIT.

In each case it means the same, regenerative medicine is a modality which enables the body to repair, replace, restore and regenerate damaged or diseased cells, tissues, and organs.

"Scientists worldwide are engaged in research activities that may enable repair of damaged heart muscle after a heart attack, replacement of skin for burn victims, restoration of movement after spinal cord injury and regeneration of pancreatic tissue to produce insulin for people with diabetes. Regenerative medicine promises to extend healthy life spans and improve the quality of life by supporting and activating the body’s natural healing.

This broad field encompasses a variety of research areas including cell therapy, tissue engineering, biomaterials engineering, growth factors and transplantation science."

For decades in the United States, Prolotherapy, which literally causes the body to make a renewed attempt to heal ligaments, tendons, and cartilage, has been the most advanced treatment to stimulate a matrix of healing resources to the injured area to signal the body to lay down healthy tissue.  Scar tissue is not healthy tissue..  Prolotherapy stimulates only the growth of healthy tissue.

With further advances in medicine, we can now put the healing matrix directly into the affected areas.  One of the treatments we use in conjunction with Prolotherapy is Platelet Rich Plasma or PRP.  Blood is drawn from the patient,  the platelets are separated in a centrifuge and then placed into the injured or degenerated area.  This gives the body some growth factors immediately at the site.

With Prolo and PRP treatments, the body is able to regenerate healthy tissue where there had been torn, painful, weakned or debilitated tissue. With PRP  some of the necessary raw materials to do so are provided at the site.

Prolotherapists have the background, knowledge, skills and philosophy to be at the forefront of both a medical and a musculoskeletal revolution.

This revolution has at it's core the long held Osteopathic philosophy that given the right signaling and the right raw materials in the right amounts, the body can and does heal itself.

Andrew Taylor Still, the father of Osteopathy, focused on both the musculoskeletal system and the holistic healing of the body.  If parts broke down, he was vigilant to find ways to repair or replace them but always with an appreciation for the body as a whole.

         Quotes of Andrew Taylor Still

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.


Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.


You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

 To find health should be the object of the doctor. Anyone can find disease.

We look at the body in health as meaning perfection and harmony, not in one part, but as   the whole.

A. T. Still 

Dr. Douglas is foremost an Osteopathic physician.  She focuses on bringing about a healing cascade from within the body to heal loose, stretched, torn, painful, injured and arthritic joints and vertebrae.

She does not treat with steroids or surgery.  For those of you who want to treat more conservatively and less invasively, you've come to the right place, Regenerative Solution.

Our mission and intention is to assist the body in healing itself.  We will continue to carefully and diligently support and utilize advances in medicine which first do no harm while also stimulating the body to heal itself.

In that endeavor, we suggest supporting the body towards a healthier state in cases where the body may not be as optimal as preferred for this type of treatment.  In most cases, we suggest some dietary changes and supplementation to enhance the effectiveness of treatment.  Unless the problem is isolated and acute, there are often additional underlying health issues.

You bring us the solution which is your body's ability to heal itself.  Your body has the regenerative solution. It uses it every day to break down old cells and create new ones.

To heal your painful or degenerating condition, use the regenerative solution.  

Dedication: to Bill Wyatt, DO, mentor, teacher and a very good spirit

(c) 2008 - 2009  Regenerative Solution, PC