Prolotherapy

This is an amazing treatment for chronic pain from arthritis, tendonitis, old injuries, or repetitive injuries. In these cases, pain often stems from an instability in the joint. For whatever reason the tendons, ligaments and other connective tissue around the joint have become loose or torn. Prolotherapy, also known as Regenerative Injection Technique, can repair that tear, and make the joint more stable, and less painful.

Treatment involves an injection into the joint (similar to cortisone), except the solution that is delivered is all natural and designed to temporarily create some inflammation. This temporary inflammation signals the body to flood the area with healing and repairing cells, to strengthen and heal stretched or torn ligaments, meniscus, cartilage, etc. The biggest difference between prolotherapy and cortisone is that cortisone is designed to stop inflammation (which it does very well), but it doesn’t get to the root of the problem and so pain often comes back. Not only does it come back, but you can only have so many cortisone treatments before it starts to damage the joint. Prolotherapy gets to the root of the problem, healing the joint to create lasting pain relief.

Most patients will need a series of 3-6 treatments to achieve full results, but that number will vary based on your individual case. I have had some patients experience as much as 75% relief after just one treatment!