Nick: Hello!
I'm Dr. Nick Delgado and I'm here with Dr. Peter Fields.
He's uniquely qualified in that he's both a medical doctor and a doctor of chiropractic
who practices orthopedic, nonsurgical intervention therapy and medicine.
You know, what's exciting about what you do, Dr. Peter Fields, is that you are not only
a practicing physician that helps athletes but also non-athletes of course, but you yourself
were a high-level athlete, triathlons.
I see pictures of you all over the world and it's just exciting and inspiring.
How many doctors are out there running in the race instead of just out there on the
golf course or maybe just pushing a few cards around and doing things, right?
So you having that experience also gives you another unique ability, an insight to what
athletes experience.
Peter: Well, yeah, I appreciate that and thank you very much for having me here and the fact
that I walk my talk.
I'm out there.
I'm swimming, biking, running.
Yes, triathlons happen to be my passion.
I've now completed four Iron Man.
I completed an Iron Man triathlon just this past year and will continue to do that, but
everybody doesn�t have to do that.
I treat athletes, as you said, but I treat non-athletes.
Some people run, bike, swim.
They just want to garden.
They want to be out of pain, so I can get in the athlete's mind and understand exactly
what they want to do and where they want to go, but also the non-athletes too.
I can help just achieve their daily living playing with grandchildren or gardening.
Nick: Well, I'd also like to share with the audience the fact that you're an expert in
prolotherapy, stem cell therapy, and you also utilize the treatments of holistic medicine
and you attend these conferences.
What is it that makes it particularly important to choose what therapy is best for the joints,
the knees, the hips, the ankles?
You work with all joints, right?
Peter: Correct.
First of all, yes, I always work on whatever joint is necessary.
I have a very large practice and there isn't a joint in the body that I don�t treat.
I use three basic forms of regenerative medicine or proliferative medicine, and that is dextrose
prolotherapy and then there's PRP, we call it prolotherpay, and stem cell prolotherapy,
so three different types of proliferative or regenerative therapy basically getting
joints, the soft tissues to regenerate or proliferate.
And depending on the patient's individual problem, what's been going on whether they
need the basic dextrose prolotherapy or they need PRP, which is the platelet-rich plasma,
or they need the stem cell, that's really reserved for people who've been told that
they need their joint replaced or they have bone on bone or no more cartilage.
We have to assess each time when we see the patient and then come up with a diagnosis
and tell them exactly which therapy might be best for them.
Nick: Dr. Fields, I really like it during your seminars, too, where you share with the
audience.
Principally, you have medical doctors and scientists and well-educated people that it's
rare that someone -- or it's almost impossible to have what other doctors sometimes tell
you or scare you saying bone on bone.
I mean, physiologically --
Peter: Most of the time, it's not.
Unfortunately, as medicine is run in the United States, people turn to surgery, surgery, and
more surgery.
I'm not saying that orthopedic surgery is not necessary, but unfortunately it's sometimes
overdone.
Last year in the United States, there were close to 30 million joint surgeries and actually
over two million joint replacements and this rush to judgment or rush to hey, have the
surgery, have the surgery.
Basically, when you have surgery, you're going to have something cut out and when you cut
that out, you're going to change structure and when you change structure, you're going
to change function.
I look at it from an angle of non-surgical orthopedics, orthopedic medicine, and I'm
going to look at them and try to assess them and figure out what I can do for them to get
them back in the game to get their own joints regenerated.
Look, you're in the business, too.
Who heals better than your own body?
We can assist it whether it's with supplements or my injection technique, but let the body
heal itself rather than take something away from the body and then in the long run end
up with even more problems.
Nick: Yeah.
I had a great experience coming to your office and you evaluating me and of course, I'm still
a competitive athlete.
It's sometimes like wearing a badge of honor that look, I'm 60 here in a few weeks and
I'm still competing.
One of the things that came up was I'm doing certain competitive sports and created some
distress on my back with some old injuries and you started doing the work and you explained
to me that it's not just one little area.
You have to do multiple facets.
You're going into all the details and I loved it, and more than that, I experienced it.
It's sustained to this day and that was more than a couple of years ago that I came in
and had that treatment and therapy.
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