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In recent years, Prolotherapy has built its reputation within the medical community for its clinically proven ability to treat knee arthritis and act as an alternative to steroid injections or knee replacement surgery.
Research has proven its pain-relieving, anti-inflammatory and regenerative benefits for individuals suffering from knee osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Prolotherapy involves the injection of a natural regenerative solution which has been shown to stimulate chondrocytes, which are the small cells cartilage is made up of.
Prolotherapy has been shown to not only reduce pain, inflammation and stimulate cartilage growth, but also to repair and strengthen the ligaments within the knee, which have been put under additional strain from the instability that arthritis causes within a knee joint.
The injections are naturally anti-bacterial, so deemed one of the safest injections on offer within medicine. Its impeccable safety record has been the reason why thousands of doctors and practitioners around the world are now adopting it as an effective, non-invasive alternative to steroid injections or knee replacement surgery.
With the knee joint being the largest joint in the body, it is also the most complex. Its functions are to allow the leg to bend, straighten and rotate, helping the ankles and hips to carry the weight of the body. This complexity is the reason why we have taken a multifaceted approach to our knee arthritis treatment program.
When a knee joint is affected by arthritis, it becomes damaged, painful, and stiff. This occurs due to the breakdown of cartilage and its inability to repair and regenerate as efficiently as other structures in the body, such as muscle and skin.
This inability to repair is a result of its lack of blood supply. As the cartilage wears down, the gap between the bones narrows, causing the bones to begin to rub and form bone spurs (osteophytes).
The knee joint has an inner layer called the synovium, which can thicken and result in excess fluid building up. This is the most common cause of swelling in an arthritic knee. Swelling creates pressure in the knee, which can also contribute to the pain already caused by the bones rubbing.
Arthritis of the knee joint causes it to become unstable. The supporting structures of the joint are then forced to work harder to stabilize it, leaving them susceptible to injury themselves. The supporting structures of the knee include muscles, tendons, ligaments, and the meniscus. Our knee arthritis treatment program helps to address problems in these supporting structures as well as the joint damage.
There are many factors involved that predispose an individual to knee osteoarthritis. Much of the population are under the false impression that genetics is the main factor. Research is now showing other factors have more of an influence such as nutrition, lifestyle, body alignment, and our environment. An effective knee arthritis treatment needs to take all of these factors into consideration.
Harvard University inspected the skeletons of 1,581 people who lived during the 19th century, and who were aged 50 or more, and compared them to those of 819 similar people who lived in the 20th century. After taking into account age and body mass index, cases of knee arthritis had doubled in the latter group, which suggests that something other than age and body weight had something to do with the increase.
The big difference between the two centuries has been the rise of chemicals in our environment, foods, and our cosmetics, which may well have more of an impact on the disease than the current culprits that medicine believes are responsible, the researchers say.