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To answer the question about prolotherapy: First, over the years we've realized that we're blessed with a world class prolotherapist, Dr. Harry Adelson, who not only travels the world to treat but also to teach prolo. His main office is a couple of hours away. We're also occasionally flying to Chicago to see the other main name in prolo, Dr. Hauser. At that skill level, prolo is a very good addition to any surgical procedure to try to reestablish the soft tissue support after surgery. I've used it to try healing partially torn ligaments and we're using it to treat Laura's unstable left knee. It doesn't do much of anything for boney changes and can't reverse a degenerated disk but it's a good adjunct after those problems have either been addressed or eliminated as concerns.

The MRI might possibly show cartilage loss or changes, depending on how well they worked to get a good image. If you can see anything at the ADR level, you might try posting a snapshot of that level here and see if anyone has any comments. If you can't see anything, they may not have been able to see it themselves. Not attacking all docs, but we've encountered dry labbed MRI and x-ray reports previously. You should get a copy of the images and flip through them just to see how much really was obscured.