Dr. Annette Zaharoff will return to Mexico in the New Year to help lead a volunteer mission for patient treatments, which also will include training physicians from around the world in the use of prolotherapy to relieve joint pain and repair musculoskeletal injuries. Dr. Zaharoff will serve as co-clinical director for the Mexico mission organized… Continue Reading
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Alan Gingrich lived with sometimes crippling back pain for all of his adult life. “It was so bad. I could be standing at the counter shaving in the morning and I could feel my back tightening up going to the left and I’d end up leaning over,” said Gingrich, a 76-year-old retired… Continue Reading
By Annette “Dr. Z” Zaharoff, MD Last month I returned from the 13th annual Prolotherapy Conference and Research Symposium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, organized by the non-profit Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation. It’s one of the biggest events we put on annually. This year I was privileged to serve as Director of Education for the… Continue Reading
A patient recently wrote a letter of thanks to me and the Director of Physical Therapy at the Non-Surgical Center of Texas, Julie Barnett, DPT. He had been suffering from back pain, so after a series of steroid shots we instructed him to follow a regimen of home, core-strengthening exercises that he was to do… Continue Reading
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Experienced physical therapist Kara M. Doctor, M.S., P.T., has joined the physical therapy team at The Non-Surgical Center of Texas. Doctor has more than 22 years of experience in the field of physical therapy. A San Antonio native who attended Saint Mary’s Hall and graduated from Churchill High School, Doctor earned… Continue Reading
In 1973, I was on the first-ever women’s varsity tennis team at the University of Michigan. Two years later I would transfer to the University of Texas at Austin and compete for the Longhorns. Both experiences were important, but the opportunity to be part of a pioneering squad in the history of Michigan athletics remains… Continue Reading
By Annette “Dr. Z” Zaharoff, MD It’s the middle of summer and chances are if you have made a trip to the pool or just put on some shorts and taken a stroll outside, you opted for the convenience of sliding your feet into a pair of flip flops. It’s a summer thing, I know…. Continue Reading
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Dr. Annette Zaharoff has been named Director of Education for the non-profit Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation, an organization that trains providers on effective utilization of regenerative injection therapies to treat muscle and joint pain. Dr. Zaharoff has taught physicians from around the world for years on the safe and effective use… Continue Reading
By Annette “Dr. Z” Zaharoff, MD The new U.S. National Physical Activity Plan (NPAP) was unveiled this Spring, an update of a plan rolled out in 2010 as an ambitious, yet attainable, initiative to engage Americans to be more physically active. NPAP is a comprehensive effort to involve governmental and non-governmental entities, and for-profit and… Continue Reading
Recently, I returned from my ninth mission trip to Honduras as part of a volunteer medical mission treating more than 1,000 indigent residents with prolotherapy injections. More than 70 physicians and support staff from several countries joined in the mission. Providers also received training on effective techniques for this injection therapy treatment that can heal… Continue Reading