Prolotherapy

Prolotherapy is a regenerative injection technique that stimulates growth factor cells that work to repair tissue. Prolotherapy treatment is used to treat joints and spinal pain by repairing damaged and weakened ligaments and tendons.

Prolotherapy is considered a viable alternative to surgery, and as an option to pain medications, cortisone and other steroidal injections.

The Prolotherapy procedure is considered a safe, affordable option that allows the patient to keep working during treatment. For example if a patient can now climb two flights of stairs without knee pain after Prolotherapy, whereas prior to the Prolotherapy this would cause excruciating pain, then we know that Prolotherapy is helping improve function.

This technique involves using the simple and safe base solution of dextrose as the primary proliferant, along with an anesthetic (such as procaine or lidocaine), that is given into and around the entire painful/injured area(s). Many injections are given during each treatment, versus just a few injections. Most treatments are provided every 4 to 6 weeks to allow time for the growth of new connective tissues.