Prolotherapy
Prolotherapy
Providing the Right Drug-Free, Non-surgical Procedures for Your Pain Relief.
Prolotherapy Relieves Pain by Jumpstarting Your Body’s Natural Healing Abilities.
Prolotherapy is an injection technique that is used to assist in repairing and strengthening ligaments, tendons, and muscle tears. “Prolo” is short for proliferation, because the treatment helps promote the proliferation (growth, formation) of new muscle ligament or tendon tissue in areas where it has become weak. When injured, ligaments or tendons don’t always heal to their original strength due to limited blood supply where they attach to the bone. The attachments have many small nerve endings that may cause pain when injured. These injuries can often lead to muscle weakness and joint instability.
Prolotherapy uses a dextrose (high concentrated sugar water) solution and is injected into the injured ligament or tendon. These injections cause localized areas of inflammation-triggering the body to increase blood supply to the area, often allowing reparative cells called Fibroblasts to lay down collagen strengthening the structure. So, in essence, we recreate selective areas of inflammation with Prolotherapy triggering the body’s own reparative process and then back away allowing the body to heal in injury.
Prolotherapy is not a new technique. In ancient times, Hippocrates first used a variant of this technique on soldiers and Olympic javelin throwers who injured their shoulders.
The response to Prolotherapy varies from individual to individual and depends upon one’s healing ability. Patients will typically need a series of 3 to 6 injections over a period of time. Each session separated by 2 week intervals. This interval allows the body time to begin the healing process after the injection.
