To understand how Prolotherapy works, it is important to first understand why some injuries or conditions struggle to heal on their own. The primary reason is a lack of blood supply. Blood helps to stimulate the production of healing compounds needed to repair a part of the body.
Prolotherapy involves injecting a natural regenerative solution with tiny needles into damaged, weak, degenerated, or inflamed body structures to provide a direct supply of what is needed to repair and regenerate them back to full health. Published research has shown the treatment stimulates fibroblasts and chondrocytes, which are the small cells that make up the body’s structures.
Prolotherapy also has the ability to spread further around the treatment site, meaning it has a positive effect not only on the injury itself but also on the surrounding tissues and joints that may have been under strain due to compensation.
At our clinic, we combine Prolotherapy with the prescription of gentle physical therapy exercises to improve the muscles’ strength and coordination around an injured area.
Published research has shown Prolotherapy can successfully treat the following structures of the body: joints, cartilage, spinal discs, muscles, ligaments, tendons, nerves, neuromas, meniscus, labrum, and bursa. We treat all areas of the body, including the head, neck, jaw, spine, shoulders, knees, hips, arms, legs, elbows, wrists, fingers, ankles, feet, toes, ribs, pelvis, sacroiliac joints, sacrum, and coccyx.