As featured in
As featured in
Prolozone Therapy
To understand how Prolozone Therapy works, it is important to first understand why a meniscus tear struggles to heal on its own. The meniscus has a limited blood supply. This means it doesn’t receive the same level of oxygen and nutrients that other structures with a good blood supply receive. Oxygen and nutrients help to stimulate the healing compounds required to heal a damaged part of the body.
Prolozone Therapy involves the injection of a regenerative solution into the tendon to provide a direct supply of what is needed to heal the meniscus and provide pain relief. The treatment has been shown to stimulate fibroblasts and chondrocytes, which are the small cells that a meniscus is made up of.
Alongside helping to repair a meniscus tear, it also helps to strengthen the neighbouring soft tissue structures such as the ligaments of the knee. This helps to enhance the effects of a meniscus repair, preventing a reoccurrence of the tear, and improving the range of motion in the knee joint.
At our clinic, we combine Prolozone Therapy with the prescription of specific physical therapy exercises to improve both the strength and coordination of the muscles around the knee. Improving the health of these muscles is a key part of helping both a medial meniscus tear and a lateral meniscus tear to repair.
Prolozone Therapy is also effective for many other common knee injuries. It is important to note that the treatment is naturally anti-bacterial, so it is deemed one of the safest injections on offer within medicine.