Anyone heard of it? or tried it?

My physical medicine Dr wants to do this therapy on my CRPS foot & ankle, she says she has had very good results with it. It is being used at a military hospital where I am being treated and it is one of the treatments some of the Wounded Warriors that have lost limbs then develop CRPS/RDS receive.

Have done research on it beyond what I have talked to her about...in fact she encouraged me to research it, just wanted to know if anyone else had used or heard of it.

Best wishes to all!!

Terri

Sorry I've never even heard of it.

Hopefully someone else can help.

Hi Terri - I hadn't heard of it and just did some brief research (ie the first 2 sites that appeared on Google). It looks like these dextrose injections are used for all sorts of pain reduction for "itis" (inflammatory) types of conditions, some less "chronic" than others. The sites I read listed plantar fasciitis, tendinitis, back pain, etc as well as longer term treatments for more chronic conditions.

My gut reaction is that it could be helpful for conditions like CRPS where the pain signals have gotten "out of control" and a patient's entire way of life is compromised. The invasive injection aspect is always a concern, of course -- but going from a 9 to a 4 on the pain scale is buying precious precious time.

But for the less severe "itis" type of pain, I think it's like the rest of western medicine where the pain is masked rather than addressing the root cause.