SAN ANTONIO, TX – Sports medicine expert Dr. Annette Zaharoff, a pioneer in the use of regenerative injections to treat pain and musculoskeletal injuries, says her 10th mission trip to Honduras marks a milestone for proponents of Prolotherapy. Dr. Zaharoff served as co-clinical director for the Honduras mission. A major focus of the non-profit Hackett… Continue Reading
By Annette “Dr Z” Zaharoff, M.D. Much is made of the pain that women endure to give birth. But often there is constant uncomfortable, sometimes debilitating pain that occurs during and after pregnancy. It’s called sacroiliac joint pain, or SI joint pain. The SI joints are between the sacrum (tailbone) and ilium (hip bone) in… Continue Reading
Non-Surgical Center of Texas providers Annette Zaharoff, MD and Julie Barnett, DPT, were among the featured presenters at this year’s APTA Combined Sections Meeting, the largest gathering of physical therapists in the country More than 150 physical therapists and other healthcare professionals attended their 2-hour presentation “Regenerative Injections: Still Quackery? PT Research and Rehab Pearls…. Continue Reading
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 Doctor of Oriental… Continue Reading
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
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
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
In a few weeks I will be making my ninth trip to Honduras to join other physicians in providing free medical care to about 2,000 patients. I’m proud of the work we accomplish on this volunteer trip, organized by the Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation. I serve on the board of this non-profit organization, which has… Continue Reading
SAN ANTONIO, TX – Dr. Annette Zaharoff traveled to Mexico last month where the medical team she worked with performed more than 1,200 prolotherapy treatments. She served as a leader of the volunteer mission for indigent patients, which also provides physician training in the use of prolotherapy. Dr. Zaharoff served as co-clinical director for the Mexico mission… Continue Reading
People are willing to try just about anything to get relief from chronic joint pain, even shooting pieces of a chicken into their knees or shoulders. Actually, it’s sometimes referred to as a rooster comb injection, also known as viscosupplementation. The key ingredient is hyaluronate, which is derived from processed combs of rooster or hen…. Continue Reading