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Save the Date: 35th annual Canadian Association of Orthopaedic Medicine Conference November 5 – 7, 2021
Please save the date and join us as we discuss success and confidence in treating musculoskeletal pain. If you practice in physiatry, sports medicine, family medicine, anaesthetics, rheumatology or are an interventional pain practitioner, this conference is for you!
Prolotherapy Cadaver Workshop September 24-25, 2021
Registration for this workshop is full. If you would like to be added to a waitlist please contact us at info@caom.ca.
Prolotherapy Training Videos for sale
These videos include footage from the first Canadian prolotherapy workshop held in 2017. The teachers include Dr. Adrian Gretton from Calgary, and Dr. Erik Ouellette from Ottawa, both extremely knowledgeable prolotherapists who teach in Canada and internationally. If you are interested in learning prolotherapy well, these videos are highly recommended. Many people claim to use prolotherapy but not everyone has the same solid, safe and well-rounded background. This is a good way to make sure you are practising correctly, for a very reasonable fee. (Also note you can purchase mp4s from the 2019 annual conference!)
Publications and Studies
Temporomandibular Dysfunction Treated With Prolotherapy
Dr. Francois Louw, a physician from the Department of Family Practice at the university of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, advances the body of knowledge in the treatment of temporomandibular dysfunction in his article appearing in the May 2019 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, where he found that using a simple and inexpensive alternative treatment with an intraarticular injection of dextrose reduced pain and increased mobility in this hard-to-treat patient population.
Recommended Reading
Suggested reading for mind-body connection and chronic pain
The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders John Sarno has written several books dealing with mind-body disorders and connections and come highly recommended. Found on AmazonPain Free for Life: The 6-Week Cure for Chronic Pain--Without Surgery or Drugs...
Suggested reading in Manual Medicine
Read my hips! Found on Amazon One of CAOM's founding members, Dr. Wolf Schamberger, has published "Read My Hips!" This book deals with all the problems resulting from malalignment along with a comprehensive treatment plan. More information about this as well as Dr....
Suggested reading about other therapies
Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual Janet Travell and David Simons wrote these classic tomes (volume 1 and 2) on trigger points. Found on Amazon. Travell and Simons' Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual: Volume 1: Upper Half...