Gustav Anders Hemwall (October 24, 1908 – November 22, 1998) was a physician at West Suburban Hospital in
Oak Park, Illinois
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, and pioneer in
prolotherapy
Prolotherapy, also called proliferation therapy, is an injection-based unproven treatment used in chronic musculoskeletal conditions.
Medical uses
A 2015 review found no evidence that prolotherapy is safe or effective for Achilles tendinopathy, p ...
.
Biography
He was born on October 24, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois
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, to the Swedish immigrants Anders Hemwall I (1877–1956) and Sigrid S. Lawson (1877–1957). His father was a tailor. His siblings include Anders Hemwall II (1904), who died as an infant; Ruth Elizabeth Hemwall (1905–1993), who married Charles Peter Tiedje I (1912–1980); and Helen Edith Hemwall (1913–1997), who never married. Gustav married Helen M. Moore in 1933.[
In 1955, at an ]American Medical Association
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meeting he learned of a new treatment for chronic lower back pain
Low back pain or wiktionary:lumbago#Etymology, lumbago is a common musculoskeletal disorders, disorder involving the muscles, nerves, and bones of the back, in between the lower edge of the ribs and the lower fold of the buttocks. Pain can var ...
by George S. Hackett called prolotherapy
Prolotherapy, also called proliferation therapy, is an injection-based unproven treatment used in chronic musculoskeletal conditions.
Medical uses
A 2015 review found no evidence that prolotherapy is safe or effective for Achilles tendinopathy, p ...
. Hemwall went to Hackett's office in Canton, Ohio
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, and was trained in the technique.
Hemwall founded the Hackett Foundation in 1969 to promote prolotherapy and train physicians in the procedure.Madison, Wisconsin
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, where he had been attending a medical conference. He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery Woodlawn Cemetery is the name of several cemeteries, including:
Canada
* Woodlawn Cemetery (Saskatoon)
* Woodlawn Cemetery (Nova Scotia)
United States
''(by state then city or town)''
* Woodlawn Cemetery (Ocala, Florida), where Isaac Rice and fa ...
in the Chicago area
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.
Publications
*Neuropathic Pain: A New Theory for Chronic Pain of Intrinsic Origin, Annals RCPSC, 1989
References
Further reading
* George S. Hackett
Ligament and Tendon Relaxation
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1908 births
1998 deaths
Physicians from Chicago
American people of Swedish descent