In the United States, reconstructive therapy has been practiced for over sixty years as a treatment for America's most common illness: tendon, ligament, and arthritic problems. To date, over six hundred thousand patients have been successfully treated with reconstructive therapy. 

 Common symptoms and conditions that respond well to reconstructive therapy: 

• A wide range of musculoskeletal problems caused by failed surgery, compression fractures, degenerated disks, polio, and muscular dystrophy

• Degenerative arthritis
• Torn ligaments and cartilage
• Degenerated discs
• Migraines
• Bursitis
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Achilles tendon tears
• Tennis elbow
• Rotator cuff tears
• Bunions

 

  Reconstructive therapy is also recommended for weak joints; joints requiring a brace; joints that continually pop, snap, and grind; or joints that cannot maintain alignment (particularly when chiropractic or osteopathic manipulations fail to help).

  Dr. Faber tells of a physician who had been experiencing chronic low back pain since the age of fourteen. At the age of thirty he had sprained his neck, worsening his condition, and a cervical laminectomy (removal of a cervical disk) was surgically performed. Nevertheless, his back problems continued, and ten years later, he injured his back once again. Diagnosis showed a herniated lumbar disk. Another operation followed, but his back pain continued, and when he could barely move without pain, he sought reconstructive therapy. Dr. Faber reports, the pain was relieved immediately,  with his neck and back steadily strengthening during the days after his first treatment. Further treatments provided more relief. He told the doctor that reconstructive therapy was the most valuable of any of the treatments he had received, and it only cost a fraction of the $120,000 he had spent on surgery, medications, and other physical therapies.

 Dr. Faber recalls another case involved a college football player who had suffered repeated injuries to his left shoulder. He trusted in various medications and therapies until the pain became too great, and then underwent orthopedic surgery, but his condition worsened. Chiropractic treatments gave him only temporary relief, and his chiropractor suggested reconstructive therapy. After receiving reconstructive injections his condition improved dramatically. In fact, in a metered punching test, it was found that he wound up with more strength in the left shoulder than in the right.

  Reconstructive therapy can be particularly benefit from degenerative muscle and joint complaints. James Carlson, D.O., an orthopedic and sports medicine specialist in Knoxville, Tennessee, and past president of the American Association of Orthopedic Medicine, believes that reconstructive therapy is the most effective treatment for Osgood-Schlatter disease, a muscle sickness that strikes adolescents between the ages of eleven and sixteen. Dr. Carlson says that these kids have such severe pain in the knees, they can't take part in exercise, sports, or dance, and traditional medicine just dictates ''don't do anything athletic''. His own son, an aspiring baseball catcher, couldn't squat down or kneel. After therapy, he made the team as a catcher, and later, became a top school athlete.

  Another patient of Dr. Faber suffered from lumbar spondylolisthesis (a forward slipping of one vertebrae on the one below it) for more than two years. He experienced constant pain caused by a break in a vertebra. After receiving reconstructive therapy from Dr. Faber he was pain free. Eight years later he reported no recurrences. Today he does landscaping, hunts, and even waterskis.

 

  Reconstructive therapy is estimated to be three to ten times more paying well than surgery or joint replacement. Dr. Carlson notes that any pain or discomfort associated with receiving multiple injections is compensated for by the benefits received from reconstructive therapy. Kent Pomeroy, M.D., an Arizona physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist, and co-founder and past President of the American Association of Orthopedic Medicine, says  that striking results should be noted by the patient within the first week of treatment. But if swelling occurs, improvement may not be noticed until the swelling subsides. If after the first six treatments marked improvement is not achieved, then further examination is recommended to find out why the patient's body is failing to reconstruct tissue.

  Usually, a patient strikingly  improves after the first six injections. Most patients will need twelve to thirty treatments to bring the joint back to full strength and function. 

The benefits of reconstructive therapy: 

• Eliminating the need for drugs or surgery

• Stimulating the body's natural healing mechanism, causing natural regrowth of structural tissue

• A low risk of side effects, when performed correctly

• Permanent results when full treatment course is completed