Dr. Alvin Stein graduated from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science/The Chicago Medical School in 1961 and did his orthopedic surgery residency training at Hospital for Joint Diseases in NY and at the New York Medical College Program at Flower 5th Ave Hospital, Metropolitan Hospital in NY and the Hospital for Crippled Children in Newark NJ, He has been in private practice since 1966 and practicing in FL since 1973. Dr. Alvin Stein has been a board certified orthopedic surgeon for over 35 years and has done various types of orthopedic procedures. These include:

General Orthopedic Surgery

Fracture care

Spinal Surgery

Arthroscopic Surgery

Surgery of the Foot

Skeletomuscular Pain Therapy

These forms of treatment have often left patients less than fully cured and often in chronic pain. By using the techniques of Neural Therapy and Prolotherapy, combined with Chelation Therapy detoxification and nutritional supplementation, Dr. Stein has been able to significantly reduce patients' pain and disability safely, without further need for surgery. Free of narcotics and other dangerous medications, natural healing is possible with the proper treatment plan and knowledgeable guidance available under Dr. Stein's care.

Certified by the American Academy of Pain Management, Dr. Stein has combined the best of the both the western and eastern healing philosophies, offering his patients a balanced approach to their health and well being. So if you are sick and tired of feeling sick and tired, there is an answer. There is someone who cares. Contact Dr. Stein to begin your journey back to a more pain free life TODAY!

Alvin Stein, MD. F.A.C.S.

4101 NW 4th St. Suite #401

Plantation, FL 33317-2195

TEL. (954) 581-8585 - FAX (954) 581-5580

See the website for more information about Prolotherapy

Prolotherapy is also known as non-surgical ligament reconstruction, and is a permanent treatment for chronic pain. Prolotherapy is derived from the Latin word "proli" which means to regenerate or rebuild.

Ligaments are the structural "rubber bands" that hold bones to bones in joints – acting like the body’s shock absorbers. Ligaments can become weak or injured and may not heal back to their original strength or endurance. Ligaments also will not tighten on their own to their original length once injured. This is largely because the blood supply to ligaments is limited, and therefore healing is slow and not always complete. To further complicate this, ligaments also have many nerve endings and therefore the person will feel pain at the areas where the ligaments are damaged or loose.

Prolotherapy uses a sugar-based solution that is injected into the ligament or tendon where it attaches to the bone. This causes a localized inflammation in these weak areas, which then increases the blood supply and flow of nutrients and stimulates the tissue to repair itself, strengthening and tightening and thereby stabilizing the area.

The response to treatment varies from individual to individual, and depends upon one's healing ability. Some people may only need a few treatments while others may need 30 or more. The best thing to do is get an evaluation by a trained physician in your area. Once you begin treatment, your doctor can tell better how you are responding and give you an accurate estimate.

List of Conditions that can be treated using Prolotherapy:

Chronic Pain resulting from injuries to the ligaments and tendons of the appendicular skeleton has been well recognized. However, soft-tissue injuries to the ligaments, tendons and fascia of the lower back have been largely ignored as a potential source of chronic back pain. Prolotherapy, is a collagen-strengthening injection technique that targets the soft tissues of the lower back.

The treatment is excellent for many different types of musculoskeletal pain, including:

Arthritis

Back pain

Neck pain

Fibromyalgia

Sports injuries

Unresolved Whiplash

Carpal Tunnel syndrome

Torn Tendons, Ligaments and Cartilage

Degenerated or Herniated discs

TMJ

Sciatica

Barre-Lieou syndrome

Cluster Headache

Deep Aching

Degenerative Disc Disease

Disc Herniation

Heel Spurs

Knee Injuries

Migraine Headaches

Multiple Sclerosis

Muscular Dystrophy

Osteoporosis

Polio

Rotator Cuff Tears

Tennis Elbow

See the website for more information about Neural Therapy

Neural Therapy, the treatment of the autonomic nervous system, is one of the most advanced and effective of all holistic healing modalities. Traditionally, Neural Therapy is the injection of local anesthetics (Procaine or Lidocaine) over and into " focal" areas and other areas with disturbed neurovegetative functioning.

Life is dependent not only on matter, but also on energy. Every cell is a tiny Potassium battery with a voltage of 40 - 90 milli-volts. This potential collapses with every stimulus (Depolarization). Normally the cell recharges immediately

(Repolarization). The required energy is generated by the oxygen-metabolism.

After exceedingly strong or too many accumulative stimuli (of a chemical, physical or traumatic nature) the cell is not able to repolarize spontaneously as it should. The permanently depolarized and thus defective or sick cell is no longer fully integrated into the activities of the cell system and is unable to exercise its function, but its transmits interfering stimuli with its rhythmic discharges (i.e. an interference field!).

Weak tissues or those impaired by diseases or injury show inadequate selectivity towards electric impulses. They receive the irritating or interfering stimuli and translate them pathogenically into disturbances of regulating mechanisms, e.g. of blood circulation, etc.

The local anesthetic (neural-therapeutic agent-Procaine or Lidocaine) brought into the interference field has a high potential of its own which repolarizes and stabilizes the defective cell membrane potential. So the "error" (derangement) of the autonomic nervous system is corrected at least for the time being, and its neural, humoral, cellular, hormonal, etc., efficiency restored. Each repetition improves the organism's ability to recharge and maintain the necessary potential autonomously. This fact accounts for the healing process.

Conditions that can be treated with Neural Therapy

Headache

Glaucoma

Vertigo

Partial Deafness

Hay Fever

Sinusitis

Severe Nervousness

Enlargement of Thyroid

Tonsillitis

Whiplash Syndrome

Bronchial or Cardiac Asthma

Cardiac Neurosis

Liver and Gallbladder Disease

Gastric and Duodenal Ulcers

Colitis

Menstrual Pain

Vaginal Discharge

Joint and Muscular Rheumatism

Arthritis

Skin Diseases

All forms of Neuralgia

Allergies

See the website for more information about Chelation Therapy

Chelation therapy is a safe, effective, and relatively inexpensive treatment to restore blood flow in victims of atherosclerosis (Hardening of the Arteries) without surgery. Chelation (pronounced KEY-LAY-SHUN) is the chemical process by which a metal or mineral (such as lead, mercury, copper, iron, arsenic, aluminum, calcium, etc.) is bonded to another substance. It is a natural process, basic to life itself. Chelation is one mechanism by which such common substances as aspirin, antibiotics, vitamins, minerals and trace elements work in the body. Hemoglobin, the red pigment in blood, which carries oxygen, is a chelate of iron.

Although chelation therapy for prevention and treatment of degenerative circulatory diseases is currently practiced by hundreds of medical doctors in the USA and Europe, it remains controversial in as much as it is misunderstood, its use is being grossly under investigated by mainstream medicine except in treating a narrow range of conditions such as lead and other heavy metal toxicity or acute hypercalcaemia (increased calcium levels in the blood). Ironically, it was the medical use of chelation therapy in removing toxic metals that first led to the discovery of its hugely beneficial 'side-effects' of dramatically enhanced circulatory function.

List of Conditions that can be treated

Intravenous chelation therapy with ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid (EDTA) is proven to reverse and slow the progression of atherosclerosis and age-related diseases. Symptoms affecting many different parts of the body often improve. Atherosclerotic blockage to blood flow in the coronary arteries of the heart, to the brain, to the legs, and elsewhere are relieved. Blood flow increases. Heart attacks, strokes, leg pain and gangrene are prevented using this therapy. Bypass surgery and balloon angioplasty can often be prevented. Published studies now indicate that even cancer deaths can be reduced by EDTA chelation therapy.

Atherosclerosis plays a big part in the cause of arthritis throughout the body due to poor blood supply to the joints. The effect of this process on the heart is Angina. Poor blood supply to the stomach and small intestines results in poor digestion. Poor blood supply to the colon causes colon disease. Poor blood supply to the brain and spinal cord can cause stroke.

Chelation therapy is therefore a safe and effective alternative to bypass surgery for atherosclerosis. Your case of severe hardening of the arteries need not lead to coronary bypass surgery, heart attack, amputation, stroke, or senility. There is new hope of recovery for victims of these and numerous related diseases. EDTA chelation therapy, administered by a properly trained physician and given in conjunction with lifestyle and dietary changes and specialized nutritional supplements, is an option to be seriously considered by persons suffering from:

Coronary artery disease

Cerebral vascular disease

Brain disorders resulting from circulatory disturbances

Generalized atherosclerosis and related ailments that lead to senility, gangrene, and accelerated physical decline.

See the website for more information about Lasers and Laser Therapy

Laser therapy employs the use of a laser beam to activate certain areas of the body in order to gain very specific types of response. The type of response that can be obtained is dependent upon the strength of the laser beam.

The stronger the laser beam, the more penetrating it can be into the body. The low-level lasers can penetrate very little into the body because they lack the amplification to penetrate through tissues. As such, their application in the body is very limited. They reach a few millimeters into the skin, and they are able to stimulate the autonomic nervous system of the body to a certain degree.

The stronger laser beams are able to penetrate deeper into the body, reaching the bone, ligaments, joint surfaces, and other tissues to create various affects on those tissues.

The strongest lasers are used in surgery to ablate tissue, or to shrink tissue and perform other surgical procedures.

Laser therapy aims to bio stimulate injured and dysfunctional tissues.

If you have pain that is of skeletomuscular origin, you may be a candidate for laser therapy. This includes arthritis, arthralgia, back pain, bursitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, chondromalacia patellae, fibromyalgia, heel spurs or plantar fasciitis, migraine headaches, neck pain/whiplash, nerve root pain, postoperative pain, repetitive stress injuries, TM joint pain, tendonitis, tennis elbow, contusions, strains and sprains, and the accompanying swelling of these areas.

If you have the wound that is slow to heal and has been resistant to treatment, you may be a candidate for laser therapy. This includes slow healing fractures, as well as soft tissue injuries and ulcers.

If you have multiple trigger points (sore spots in the muscles) that do not go away, you may be a candidate for laser therapy. This includes areas associated with fibromyalgia.

If you have had prolotherapy, and wish to accelerate the response of healing with the prolotherapy, you may be a candidate for laser therapy. This includes any area that has been treated with prolotherapy injections.

If you need prolotherapy or neural therapy but are afraid of needles, you may be a candidate for laser therapy.

Laser therapy stimulates the same areas that prolotherapy targets. It does it without needles, but requires a lot more time and repeated treatments to gain the result that can be gotten from prolotherapy and laser together.