Robert F. Kidd, MD, CM

Prolotherapy is a little known medical treatment for chronic soft tissue injuries of tendons, ligaments and fascia. These tissues are commonly injured in auto, household, and work accidents as well as in sports.

Some Injuries Don't Heal

Most of these injuries heal through the body's own internal mechanism, but a minority of these injuries don't heal and lead to chronic pain and dysfunction. The injured person cannot function at his or her prior level and repeated attempts to return to full activity results in pain and frustration. Drugs and physical therapy measures can soothe the condition, but it never heals properly. Many of the injuries that don't heal are at the attachment of the ligament or tendon to the bone, an area with poor circulation and consequently less capacity for healing.

Prolotherapy to the Rescue

Prolotherapy can help heal many of these previously untreatable problem cases. By injecting a substance designed to create inflammation into the area where ligaments are weak and/or damaged, the doctor can stimulate the body to heal these areas by re-creating the chemical environment of a flesh injury. This will trigger the proliferation of fibrous tissue and give the injured tendon or ligament a second chance to heal and be "re-welded" to its attachment to the bone. Clinical research studies have shown a 75% success rate in chronic musculoskeletal pain patients. Biopsies of ligament tissue before and after prolotherapy show an abundance of healthy new ligament tissue after treatment.

Robert F. Kidd, MD, CM
Orthopedic Medicine

• Internationally recognized orthopedic expert in private practice for 20 years
• Past-president, American Association of Orthopaedic Medicine
• Editor, Journal of Orthopaedic Medicine
• Past-president, Canadian Association of Orthopaedic Medicine

Education:

• Doctor of Medicine degree, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Dr. Robert F. Kidd is an internationally known expert in orthopedic medicine at American WholeHealth’s Michigan Avenue Center in Chicago, as well as AWH’s McHenry, Illinois Center. He specializes in musculoskeletal pain of all kinds, especially headache and facial pain, backache and sciatica, TMJ syndrome, shoulder pain, arthritis, phantom pain and reflex sympathetic dystrophy.

He also has interests in chronic fatigue, unexplained anxiety and depression, hypertension, nutrition and preventive medicine, infant colic and learning disabilities of childhood, and problems related to mercury poisoning from dental amalgam fillings.

Dr. Kidd is sought after by other physicians to diagnose difficult cases of chronic musculoskeletal pain. He uses a variety of treatments including cranial osteopathy, neural therapy, prolotherapy, caudal epidural and other nerve blocks, as well as nutritional assessment and counseling. Dr. Kidd is also experienced in mercury detoxification and bee venom therapy.

He has lectured in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain, and has been published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Medicine, Manual Medicine, Journal of Soft Tissue Manipulation and Headache.

Dr. Kidd was formerly on staff at Rhema Medical Associates, Ltd., an osteopathic medical practice group bridging conventional medicine with alternative therapies. In March 1998, Rhema partnered with American WholeHealth, one of the nation’s leading providers of integrative medicine.