Cure Low Back Pain with Regenerative Medicine

Causes of  Low Back Pain

If you’re between 30 and 40 years of age, chances are you may have experienced your first bout of low back pain. You are not alone in this predicament. No matter what type of low back pain you have, regenerative medicine therapies can help. Low back pain can be caused by any of the following:

1. Trauma –Most of us have also suffered from low back pain at some point or another. Sometimes it is due to a specific event or injury. These types of injuries include sprains (ligament injuries), strains (muscle/tendon injuries), disk injuries (tears, ruptures), and include many possible findings including joint fixations (areas where vertebrae stop working well together or have shifted from their proper location). When there is radiating leg pain that travels below the knee, a pinched nerve may be involved, often caused by disk pressure or a combination of things.
2. Back muscle strainA back muscle strain or ligament strain is one of the most common causes of acute lower back pain. Lifting a heavy object, twisting, or a sudden movement can cause muscles or ligaments stretch or develop microscopic tears.

3. Insidious or “I don’t know what I did!”Believe it or not, this is probably the most common cause of LBP as the majority of people can’t recall anything as causing their LBP. The “cause” in these cases often stems from a series of events that accumulate to a point where pain/swelling occurs, often hours or even days after several intense activities may have been performed. Thus, more investigation into the activities that preceded the onset of LBP needs to be considered. We can usually uncover several possible culprits but we can’t ever be 100% certain that we’re right about the cause(s). In some cases, people will wake up with LBP, while others don’t have it until they’ve been active.
4. Dangerous loading activitiesIt has long been known that jobs that involve lifting or carrying 50-100 lbs (~22-45 kg), especially if frequently handled, have an increase in occurrence of LBP.

Chronic low back pain can ofren be unbearable nd often crippling. There is no way of telling if your low back pain falls on the dangerous side Surgery is often useless in cases like low back pain while oral pain killers may often can cause side effects. In low back pain cases, prolozone and prolotherapy are commonly used. Prolotherapy uses an irritant solution (usually dextrose) into the affected area, with the mild inflammatory effect duping the body into healing itself, encouraging growth of tendon and ligament fibers. Prolozone is another treatment option which is widely considered as a better overall option than prolotherapy. Instead of a dextrose solution, prolozone uses ozone gas mixture that stabilizes inflammatory chemicals and improves circulation. If you have chronic low back pain (and pretty much any musculoskeletal problems), regenerative medicine can be the ultimate answer.

Dr Chris Wellwood NP-C, MSN, DC, MS

Dr. Christopher Wellwood, NP-C, MSN, DC, MS

Dr. Christopher Wellwood is a dual Board Certified Chiropractic Physician and Family Nurse Practitioner — a combination that puts him in a category of his own. His Doctorate in Chiropractic comes from the University of Western States, and his Master of Science in Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner from Purdue University.

His clinical focus spans physical medicine, regenerative injection therapy (prolotherapy, PRP, stem cell, ozone), interventional pain management, functional neurology, and primary care. He is a published author in scientific journals — his research on adrenal and thyroid disease treatment is indexed in the Library of Medicine — and served as a Clinical Research Specialist at the Center for Health Research, contributing to the Premier Blood Pressure Study.

Dr. Wellwood believes the body has the ability to heal itself when given the right conditions. His approach addresses root causes rather than symptoms, combining conservative physical medicine with regenerative therapies to help patients recover, adapt, and thrive.