From Dr Carley Squires' early days as an athlete focused on keeping her own joints healthy, to the thousands of hours in training across the country in naturopathic school and in post-doctoral training focused on osteopathic and musculoskeletal assessment and treatment, we get the benefit of her passion for healthy joints both preventatively through the foundations of health as well as regeneratively through a wide variety of innovative treatments. She starts this podcast with the truest understanding of inflammation which is necessary at adequate levels to heal and remodel an injured joint. Dr Squires then systematically lays out joint treatment options: prolotherapy for hypermobile joints with laxity (inherent or acquired, including years after a whiplash injury, for example), PRP (platelet rich protein) for tears, and mesenchymal stem cell therapy (systemically via IV or locally via joint injection). She also discusses other non-traditional pain treatment options: ozone therapy, HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen therapy), nitric oxide, cytokine therapies and peptides. We round off this session with the current typical treatments for MSK (musculoskeletal) pain and their unfortunate limitations: NSAIDS (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) like ibuprofen which can actually be damaging if used beyond an acute period of injury, steroids, bracing, weight loss and surgery. Nobody escapes life without a few hard knocks; listen in to find out what to do when your joints get injured traumatically or through degeneration and how to get the best treatment up front to prevent any later progression to arthritis and chronic pain. 

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Find out more about Dr Carley Squires, ND: https://www.centerforhealingneurology.com/carley-squires-nd-lac-eamp/