The actual injury to the knee has been strains, torn ACL’s, torn meniscus, and other tendon and ligament connectors from above and below the knee.

My job is to fix the injuries and keep these wonderful women working so they can feed their families.  I also help the athletes get back at their game more quickly.  You know how it is for the “warriors.”

I have two housekeepers now who both fell in bathtubs while scrubbing.   One of them tore her ACL, the other severely strained her medial meniscus.

If they had put ice on their knees immediately and taken an anti-inflammatory that day and the next, their injuries would have been reduced in severity.  Unfortunately they both waited several weeks to seek help and see me.  As a result, their injuries grew and their pain increased.  This resulted in their inability to work.

Why do you wait after your injured?  Do you really think it is going to get better quick on its own?

They were sent to me to fix.  I treated them twice in two days and they returned to work.  I continued to threat them for three weeks (3 times per week) until they were healthy.

Lesson:  Ice immediately.  Don’t wait.  If it really hurts or if it swells up get help.  Don’t let the injury grow.  It takes much longer to heal.

Injuries grow immediately through involvement of cell after cell after nerve, muscle, tendon or ligament fiber.  Biochemicals gather about the injury to wall it off from the rest of the body, producing swelling and inflammation as a “warning” not to use the injured part.

This process is not necessary today as we, unlike the caveman, have no need to keep fighting, surviving, or using the injured appendage.

Still the injury grows, involving more and more tissue.  It rapidly swells and becomes painful.

What to Do?

Immediately, within minutes, sit or lay down and apply ice to try to stop the progression of the injury.  Use ice for 20 minutes several times during the day of the injury.  Taking an anti-inflammatory several times the first couple of days of the injury can also be useful.  Rest the injury!

Along with this, a great idea is to receive regenerative electrotherapy like microcurrent or SCENAR from a professional like myself or treat yourself if you own a microcurrent or SCENAR device.  Yes, home units are available.  I see the day when we will all have one in our home.  They are not complicated to use and are worth it over your lifetime.  Better a SCENAR in your home than bottles of pills given their side effect profiles.

The sooner a regenerative electrotherapy modality is applied the sooner an injury can be repaired.  It could be as soon as overnight if applied the same day as the injury.  Really.

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Don’t worry.  I can make it simple

Dr. Lathrop here with a short lesson for you.  Stick with me because to help yourself better it can be useful to have a basic understanding of how your body’s tissue responds to trauma or injury.  Don’t worry.  It is simple to understand.  Really.  Even with a Ph.D I can make it simple.  When you get this information you can easily see how or why we suggest what we do to treat yourself after an injury.

The body’s response to trauma

Did you know that your body responds to the tissue trauma in three different distinct phases?  You may not have.  The three phases are:

1)      the acute inflammatory phase which is 0 to 7 days after you get injured,

2)      the proliferative phase which the next 7 to 21 days after your injury and then,

3)      the maturation and remodeling phase (21 days and thereafter).

Know this, the early and immediate management of soft tissue injuries can be either extremely effective, or if inappropriately applied, may be damaging.  To read more about what’s happening with the body during each phase read here.

Immediate and early management is key

The most important things to remember are the aims of immediate and early management of soft tissue injury during the first 3 days:

• To reduce the local temperature of the tissue

• To reduce the pain

• To limit and reduce the inflammation or swelling

• To reduce energy demands of the tissues

• To protect the damaged tissue from further injury

• To protect the initial, newly-formed tissue healing from disruption

• To promote collagen fiber growth and realignment

• To maintain general levels of cardio-respiratory and musculoskeletal fitness/activity

Shorten the recovery time dramatically with new techniques

It is SO important to treat immediately after an injury.  You can completely ALTER the course of the injury and how it heals when you do!  So many times in my practice patients come in a week or more after the injury.  The whole first phase has passed by!

I could have done so much in that first 0-7 day window if I saw them immediately.  Don’t wait.  Don’t think “I can handle it. The pain’s not so bad. I will just stay off of it.  It will be OK.”  This is the wrong thing to do.  Your injury will last days or weeks LONGER than if you treated it properly yourself right away or received treatment with our inexpensive advanced technologies immediately.

Remember, there are NEW things out there to help you.  Technology is advancing everywhere including medicine.

In my next post I will share tips with you to accomplish faster healing for yourself with minor injuries.  In the future I will also teach you about my work at the clinic and how I accomplish accelerated healing for your more significant injuries.  Until then have fun out there, take reasonable precautions to prevent yourself from being injured, and apply immediate help if you do.  Call me or see me for a free consultation.  The faster the better is what’s key!

Pain Takes Our Mind Out of the Game
Remember when I mentioned in an earlier post that if you are experiencing pain or if you have tissue that is irritated or damaged your neurophysiology is NOT functioning at its highest level possible and prevents you from doing many things in your life?  I bet your mind immediately went and focused on a place where your body hurts now or to a past injury you have had.  This is what pain does.  It keeps taking our mind “out of the game” moment to moment.  Robbing us of time.  Getting in the way of us being our best.

Wm Paul Young said, and it is so true:  Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly … and if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place. 

Pain happens because the soft tissue is irritated or hurt in some way.  Pain is our body’s signal something is wrong with the tissue.   If you can take away the irritation or the damage the pain will go away.  That is the best thing to do.  It’s much better to do than to mask the pain with drugs.

The Most Common Soft Tissue Injuries
So what is soft tissue? People always want to know what kinds of things I can repair.  The answer is soft tissue of all types – muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves.  Not bones.  Some of the most common “acute” or fresh soft tissue injuries are things like muscle-tendon strains or sprains, ligament sprains,  contusions, tendonitis, and stress injuries.  You might have fallen, had a quick and sudden “twist” or taken a blow to your body.  Maybe you damaged or irritated the tissue because of repeated overuse or repetitive movements in your work or play.  When its repetitive often times the stress on the body accumulates slowly and steadily leading to more and more damage or pain.  I am treating an avid golfer now who has that very issue.

Don’t Let Them Become Chronic
These things can become what we call “chronic.”  Without correct diagnosis and proper treatment, they can lead to long-term breaks in productive functioning, work, athletic training and competition. Far too often, injuries become chronic and end the careers of competitive athletes, force recreational-weekend warrior athletes to abandon their favorite activities and impede people from returning to the same jobs.   For these reasons, an increased focus has been on finding ways to ensure optimal healing.

It is possible to repair or regenerate the underlying tissue problem, stop the pain and get back to your life.  Don’t let people tell you it’s not.  Don’t let people tell you “there is nothing more you can do.”   Maybe there is nothing more THEY can do.  That doesn’t mean there isn’t something else out there that can help you.

If you are reading this you are someone who is continuing to search and find a solution for your pain.  Good for you!  You CAN help yourself in new ways with minor injuries and heal faster.  You can see a professional like myself for injuries of more significance and heal faster and get rid of the pain without drugs or surgery often times.  I can help your body to heal even from old unresolved injuries where you have ongoing chronic pain.

Until next time, keep believing and doing your discovery to find the answers right for you.

So, What Does That Mean?
I’m what’s called a Clinical Neurophysiologist.  People usually looked puzzled when I say that and they wonder like you probably are “what does that mean?”  Well, it means that I specialize in the “neurophysiology” of the human body.

It’s an area of medicine that’s focused on how our brain, our spinal cord and the nerves of our whole body right down and through our arms and legs to the fingers and toes (including their muscles) function, how well they are working or not working.

Stop the Pain for Life
My goal is that your neurophysiology is functioning at the highest level possible.  If you are experiencing pain or if you have tissue that is irritated or damaged your neurophysiology is NOT functioning at its highest level possible and that prevents you from doing many things in your life.

It is possible to repair or regenerate the underlying tissue problem, stop the pain and get back to your life.

No Drugs, No Surgery Required
That’s what I am here to do, without drugs or without surgery.  I use FDA cleared medical technology and along the way in future posts I will talk more about it or you can poke around this website to learn more.  Or you can call me for a consultation.  Don’t stay in pain or on pain medications.  It’s not worth it when there are answers.  Just because you haven’t heard of me before or some of these technologies doesn’t mean that they don’t exist.  Technology is rapidly advancing in many fields including medicine.

Watch for future posts where I will share more about what you might want to know about your body, pain management or pain treatment, how to treat new and old unresolved injuries yourself as well as what we do here at the clinic.

Remember, there is no machine more complex than the human body and how you take care of it will make all the difference in the world.

Dr Lathrop’s regenerative electrotherapy has helped most people with chronic neck pain, back pain, knee pain and other pain issues avoid surgery and the side effects of modern allopathic medical solutions. Electrotherapy accelerates and promotes the healing process with no side effects and is very affordable.

If you are the least bit open to exploring an alternative to the drugs, physical therapy, surgery and other alternative treatments you have tried – if you are just a little bit curious if there could be a solution you have come to the right place.  Most people who come in to see us, are in just this place.  They come in saying they have “tried everything” and yet they don’t want the pain to rule their lives and they are open to really seeing if Dr. Lathrop and the FDA cleared medical technologies he uses can make a difference.  And 9 times out of 10 they do – significantly!

Contact Us Today:
San Diego Pain Treatment – (858) 571-6654
3675 Ruffin Rd., Ste. 120, San Diego, CA 92123

Are you suffering with chronic back pain, knee pain, shoulder pain or neck pain? Do you have a work injury? If you were referred to Dr Peter Lathrop in San Diego or you were searching for help for your pain and injury, it is likely you have suffered with it for a long time.  Maybe you are at the point where you believe nothing can help get rid of the pain that has changed your life.  We know.  Others have tried.  You have been prescribed different types of pain medication and physical therapy.  Nothing has worked.  The symptoms get treated.  The underlying cause isn’t.  The body doesn’t heal properly and the pain continues.  Maybe you have even had surgery and yet that hasn’t resolved the problem.

Dr Lathrop’s regenerative electrotherapy has helped most people with chronic neck pain, back pain, knee pain and other pain issues avoid surgery and the side effects of modern allopathic medical solutions. Electrotherapy accelerates and promotes the healing process with no side effects and is very affordable.

If you are the least bit open to exploring an alternative to the drugs, physical therapy, surgery and other alternative treatments you have tried – if you are just a little bit curious if there could be a solution you have come to the right place.  Most people who come in to see us, are in just this place.  They come in saying they have “tried everything” and yet they don’t want the pain to rule their lives and they are open to really seeing if Dr Lathrop and the FDA cleared medical technologies he uses can make a difference.  And 9 times out of 10 they do – significantly!

Contact Us Today:
San Diego Pain Treatment – (858) 571-6654
3675 Ruffin Rd., Ste. 120, San Diego, CA 92123