HHPF Service Learning Trips

March 03, 2023 09:39 Anonymous

Visit hhpfoundation.org/service for more information and to apply! 

Email [email protected] with any questions.

IART Members Contribute to American Family Physician Newsletter

April 30, 2021 13:00 Deleted user

Prolotherapy: An Evidence-Based Adjunctive Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis

Am Fam Physician. 2021 Apr 1;103(7):395.

Original Article: Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Nonpharmacologic, Noninvasive Treatments

The HHPF Vein Team Brings Hope to Honduras

November 20, 2020 14:20 Deleted user

From the Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation (HHPF)

Did you know HHPF provides vein care to hundreds of people in Honduras each year?

Each March, the HHPF Vein Team travels to Honduras for a week of intensive phlebology training and treating of severe venous disease.  Over the years the numbers of physicians, nurses and assistants has increased from just a handful of volunteers to 80-90...

President's Message: IART is Growing!

August 10, 2020 12:55 Deleted user

Life has changed for everyone in the last 8 months and invited us to become flexible and adaptable to changes related to the pandemic; and businesses, professional associations and organizations are no exception. As Albert Einstein said, “in the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.”

We all know the crisis, but I want to share IART’s response to the opportunity side of this equation. We can all appreciate that “pre-COVID” in-person platforms for learning may now pose a health and safety threat. To that end, IART has re-grouped. IART has...

October 2020 IART/HHPF Prolotherapy Conference will be Virtual!

June 24, 2020 12:05 Anonymous

After much consideration, the International Association for Regenerative Therapy has decided not to hold the 2020 Annual Prolotherapy Conference live in person in Madison this October 23-25.  This difficult decision was made due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns.  We want to protect attendee and staff safety, and we felt that potential travel restrictions and possibly the budget restrictions of potential attendees and stresses of reopening practices would interfere with a successful conference of that type in the coming months.

HHPF Endorses New Association - The International Association for Regenerative Therapy

August 30, 2019 14:26 Deleted user

August 2019

I am writing you to provide an update on the recently formed International Association for Regenerative Therapy (IART.) At the October 2018 HHPF Madison Conference, it was announced that after a lengthy study by the HHPF Board and its governance team, a new aligned association would be created to sustain and expand regenerative medicine treatments such as prolotherapy. I am happy to report that the new "International Association for Regenerative Therapy" (IART) is set to launch this fall!

Honduras Prolotherapy Trip Celebrates 50 Years

August 12, 2019 08:00 Deleted user

An annual service-learning experience that has close ties to the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) celebrates its 50^th year.

Since 1969, a team of physicians, nurses, learners and assistants—many affiliated with the DFMCH—have traveled to rural Honduras each March to provide free prolotherapy services for people with chronic musculoskeletal pain, and to teach prolotherapy to clinicians...

It Happens Every March in Honduras: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Hemwall Honduran Program

June 01, 2019 08:00 Deleted user

The Hackett-Hemwall Foundation organizes a medical mission training course every March. JOP columnist and Prolotherapist, Gary B. Clark, MD, MPA, reviews the fortieth anniversary of the Hemwall Honduran program, which occurred in March 2009. The HHF course is the largest Prolotherapy training program of its kind. This physician group provides medical care to over 4,000 Honduran patients annually. Dr. Clark’s article reflects on the history of the program, along with how far it has come and continues to reach.