What is prolotherapy?

Prolotherapy is an injection treatment for pain and joint repair that can permanently repair a joint/muscle injuries. Prolotherapy is a safe, cost-effective, and predominately successful approach to acute injury, chronic pain, tissue/ligament damage, and degenerating joints.

Prolotherapy channels the body’s own healing response to inflammation by injecting a safe, non-toxic solution (dextrose, PRP, or PRF ) into an area of pain or tissue damage, triggering a localized immune system response to rebuild ligaments, tendons and cartilage. In other words, prolotherapy rebuilds joints from within without scarring or adhesions.

Prolotherapy is a researched and clinically proven way to harness the incredible regenerative capabilities or your own body, cascading the natural repair of musculoskeletal injuries.

Common conditions addressed include:

• Ankle ligament injuries
• Arthritis
• Carpal Tunnel Pain
• Hip Pain/Injuries
• Knee ligament injuries
• Lower back pain
• Rotator cuff injuries,
• Sacroiliac instability
• Tendonitis

How does it work?

When an injury occurs, the body’s immune system reacts by sending a surge of blood to the injury or wound (inflammation). This surge of blood carries chemicals designed to heal and repair, namely dextrose (sugar d-glucose). Interruption of the natural inflammation process can prevent the body’s natural healing ability, leaving you with chronic pain and degenerative damage to tissues, joints, and spine. In the case of chronic pain, tissue is damaged more extensively and for a more prolonged period of time than the body can repair on its own. Prolotherapy essentially reboots the body’s natural method for healing injury by introducing the very same chemical, dextrose, to the site of the injury, triggering the body to launch a healing response.

For (many) patients, a series of prolotherapy treatments successfully rebuilds strong and healthy ligaments and permanently eliminates pain.
In additional to the safe and simple base solution of dextrose and saline, a safe anesthetic (procaine) is used to reduce and relieve pain from the injection and the subsequent healing process. Prolotherapy is administered without the use of anti-inflammatory medications or steroids, as these substances inhibit the healing process.

Prolotherapy is a safe, cost-effective, and predominately successful approach to acute injury, chronic pain, tissue/ligament damage, and degenerating joints.

Do all cases of chronic pain or degenerative arthritis require prolotherapy?

No. In all cases of chronic pain and degenerative arthritis, the underlying cause is joint instability. But the reason for joint instability can vary.Patients are first treated using structuralmanipulation therapy to stabilize joints.If this approach does not result in joint stabilization, then prolotherapy may be recommended.

How many treatments of prolotherapy are necessary?

PRP/PRF prolotherapy – 1 session every 4-8 weeks.
Dextrose/ozone – 1 session every 2 weeks.

Typical number of Prolotherapy sessions for joint
Knee – PRP or PRF – 2-3 sessions/ 4-5 sessions dextrose/ozone
Shoulder – PRP or PRF – 2-3 sessions/ 4-5 sessions dextrose/ozone
Ankle – PRP or PRF – 2-3 sessions/ 4-5 sessions dextrose/ozone
Wrist – PRP or PRF – 2 sessions /. 4 sessions dextrose/ozone
Sacroiliac joint – PRP or PRF – 2-3 sessions/ 5-7 session dextrose/ozone