Dr Fehlau’s Interventional Treatments Summarized
I. Acupuncture
Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture
- Many health conditions can be treated in this way although I mostly treat people for neuropathies or allergies.
- Occ. covered by Third Party Insurance.
IMS/GTT Acupuncture
- This is a kind of Myofascial release kind of acupuncture treatment. Some physiotherapists at the Joint Clinic offer IMS and I offer a modified kind of IMS called Gokavi Transverse Technique.
- Occ. covered by Third Party Insurance
II. Trigger Point Injections
- Trigger points are hyper-irritated spots in fascia in skeletal muscle often caused by referred pain not typical of nerve patterns.
- I inject these with the buffered 5% dextrose solution.
- Covered by MSP.
III. Prolotherapy
Dextrose Prolotherapy
- Prolotherapy is a regenerative injection technique which helps stimulate the body’s own healing of joints, ligaments and tendons, especially after traumas.
- Not covered by MSP.
PRP Prolotherapy
- PRP Prolotherapy is a subset type of Prolotherapy which utilized the person’s own “platelet-rich plasma” which contains stem cells and growth factors that really promote healing.
- Not covered by MSP.
IV. Perineural injection treatments
- This is a specialized injection technique that reduces “neurogenic
- It acts similar to a nerve block but actually changes the nerve
- Not covered by MSP
V. Ultrasound-guided Nerve Blocks
- Useful for many nerve-related pains,
- Covered by MSP