3 years ago
Dr. Greenberg is way better than the majority of d...
Dr. Greenberg is way better than the majority of doctors I ve gone to for my problems, but I m still not satisfied with the treatment I ve received from him. He truly has a gift in his ability to examine a body and know where a patient is feeling pain. However, knowing where someone is feeling pain isn t the same as knowing where something is damaged. After getting multiple PRP treatments by him and having success at the beginning but eventually plateauing, I asked Dr. Greenberg multiple times if ultrasound would show my ligament damage. He told me that it would not show my damage. Eventually, I got tipped off by one of his ex-patients that told me that Dr. Greenberg had hit one of his nerves (I ve been told by other prolotherapists that it s easier to not hit nerves if you use guided ultrasound while doing injections), and that he d started going to someone else and found out that Dr. Greenberg hadn t injected the right place because of where fluid showed on the imaging. That made me decide to get my problems checked with ultrasound. At that appointment, I found out that my obliquus capitis inferior muscle was torn and that Dr. Greenberg hadn t injected it at all. There was also damage in my upper back that showed on ultrasound. I talked it over with Dr. Greenberg, and he told me that just because there was damage there didn t mean it was the major source of my problems. However, I don t know if I agree with that because the other prolotherapist I saw said that because Novocain injected into my OCI lowered my pain and because muscle relaxers helped me reduce my pain, there was a good chance that it was a significant contributor to my pain. I haven t had enough injections into my OCI to know who is right (I ve only had one round of injections), but I m very disappointed in the way Dr. Greenberg initially answered my questions about ultrasound. I understand that I did ask about ligament damage, and the way he answered could have been interpreted that he was telling me that my ligament damage wouldn t show (and it didn t), but he made it out like it was so useless that I was under the impression that nothing would show. Plus, he was completely unaware that my OCI was torn. That s the major reason I have an issue with his practice but there also have been a few other red flags. He prescribed me a supplement I shouldn t have been taking because of my food allergies. He also told me that even if my testosterone was at absolute zero, he wouldn t give me testosterone because I m female. All that being said, my pain levels are lower than when I started with him, and I don t have any lasting physical damage from his treatments.