Understanding Prolotherapy
The first question we usually receive from someone interested in receiving Prolotherapy treatments is: What is Prolotherapy?
 

Prolotherapy treatments are injections that work with the body’s inflammation process to strengthen ligaments and tendons for long term relief.

Prolotherapy stimulates the body to repair painful areas by inducing a mild inflammatory reaction in the weakened ligaments and tendons by producing collagen. New collagen shrinks as it matures. The shrinking collagen tightens the ligament that was injected and makes it stronger. The inflammation causes the blood flow to dramatically increase in the ligament and/or tendon, alerting the body that healing needs to take place.

Prolotherapy has the potential of being 100 percent effective at eliminating chronic pain, but that depends upon the technique of the individual Prolotherapy doctor and the overall health of the individual receiving it.

Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy

Prolotherapy-Back Surgery-Spinal Fusion
Articles on the Role of Back Surgery, Spinal Fusion
Failed Back Surgery, and more.

Knee Pain Prolotherapy PRP
"Prolotherapy improved the pain and function in five knees with osteoarthritis. All five degenerated knees showed evidence of articular cartilage regeneration in their standard weight-bearing X-rays after Prolotherapy. It is suggested that before and after X-ray studies can be used to document the response of degenerated joints to Prolotherapy. Future research is needed with a larger patient population and under a more controlled setting to further evidence of clinical responses and cartilage regeneration with Prolotherapy."
Journal of Prolotherapy. 2009;1:39-44.

Older Prolotherapy articles and Posts
 

Research
Standard Clinical X-ray Studies Document Cartilage Regeneration in
Five Degenerated Knees After Prolotherapy

Hip Pain Prolotherapy PRP

Before and after
Regeneration of tissue and cartilage repair

Prolotherapy and Hip Pain
Snapping Hip Syndrome
Iliotibial Band Injury
Ischial Tuberosity / Hip and Buttocks Pain
Hip Replacement and Prolotherapy
Pain After Dislocation
Hip Pain and Prolotherapy
Hip Labral Tear
Pubic Symphysis Pain
PRP Prolotherapy labral tear of right hip
 

Groin Pain
Hip, Groin Pain and Prolotherapy
Chronic groin pain is easily treated with Prolotherapy because there are multiple ligament laxities that cause groin pain. This diagnosis is accomplished by the physician having a listening ear and a strong thumb (TO PALPITATE THE PAINFUL AREA.). An interesting case will illustrate this point.

Pubic Symphysis Pain
Pain of the public symphysis area is often overlooked and blamed on abdominal muscles and adductor muscles which attach in this area with the diagnosis of abdominal muscle pull or adductor tendonitis.

Pubic Symphysis Laxity
Many people are subjected to hernia surgeries for chronic groin pain, which has nothing to do with a hernia! Patients come to us after a hernia surgery failed to "cure" them of their groin pain.

Ankle Pain
Most Ligament injuries do not totally heal. Even if the pain resolves, the ligament will not be as strong as it was prior to the injury. Since ligaments stabilize the joints, ligament injury then produces a loose joint. If the ligament never heals, chronic joint looseness or instability results.

Go to Ankle Pain Page
Twisted Ankle
Chronic Ankle Pain in a Female Athlete
Chronic Lateral Ankle Instability
Golf, Prolotherapy and Weak Ankles
Ankle Sprains
Ankle Fusion

Ankle Video

Head and Neck Pain
Head and Neck Pain Links
Headaches Have a Neck Component
Cervical radiculopathy
Torticollis

Migraines and Prolotherapy

Prolotherapy, BOTOX®, and Headaches
Three Types of Headaches

TMJ Syndrome and Prolotherapy

Barre-Lieou Syndrome

PROLOTHERAPY AN ALTERNATIVE TO NECK SURGERY
Trigeminal neuralgia symptoms

C5 Vertebrae

Prolotherapy Tinnitus, Neck Stiffness

Prolotherapy, Neural Therapy and Diet Typing
BURNING MOUTH SYNDROME

Mal-rotation C1 vertebrae Prolotherapy
Numerous patients over the years have come in with what I term “C1 Syndrome.”  I am sure it is called something else in chiropractic and osteopathic literature, but regardless of the name, it is a condition caused by mal-rotation of the C1 vertebrae.

Ligament and Tendon Injury
Benign Congenital Hypermobility
An often overlooked but extremely important reason for chronic body pain is benign congenital hypermobility (BCH) Generalized joint hypermobility (loose joints in the entire body) due to ligamentous laxity occurs in about five percent of the population.

Ligament Injury and Referred Pain Patterns
The chief principle of Prolotherapy is that it treats the root cause of chronic pain and sports injuries—ligament and tendon weakness. The chief symptom of ligament and/or tendon injury is pain.

Ligament Injury
We think many athletes and people suffering from chronic pain do not heal their initial injuries because of improper treatment.

Connective Tissue Damage
There are many articles written on chronic pain though rarely is mention given to the main culprits for pain, the connective tissues of the spine and joints.

Tendinopathy
Prolotherapy for Tendinopathy
Tendinopathy, 95% of the time, means the person has tendinosis or a degenerated muscle origin or tendon. So what caused the tendon or muscle origin or insertion to become degenerated. Cortisone will degenerate these structures, as will anything that inhibits healing. Anti-inflammatories inhibit healing as does ice and rest. So anyone who does the RICE treatment, antiinflammtories or cortisone shots has done treatments that could cause a tendinosis.

Degenerative Joint Disease
Getting old has nothing to do with chronic pain. Chronic pain has it causes, yes, but they do not include advancing age! Pain is a signal that something is wrong, something has become injured or weakened.

Prolotherapy and Arthritis
Osteoarthritis (or degenerative joint disease (DJD)) is the most common form of arthritis, affecting nearly the entire elderly population. Osteoarthritis is described as a generally progressive loss of articular cartilage accompanied by sclerosis of subchondral bone and, in many instances, the formation of subchondral bone cysts and osteophytes. The osteophytes are the overgrowth of bone that make joints look big and are the abnormalities that physicians see on x-ray showing arthritis in the joints. 

Osteoarthritis and Prolotherapy, Diet to Stop the Onset of Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Arthrofibrosis
Case History - multiple areas of pain. 

Platelet Rich Plasma
Prolotherapy with Platelet Rich Plasma for
Labrum and Menisci Degeneration and/or Tears
I can’t remember the last time a patient of ours had surgery for a torn meniscus or labrum. I know I have sent a few patients for surgery in the past, but it has been a long time. Prolotherapy works very well for labrum (hip and shoulder) and menisci degeneration and tears and even more so when platelet rich plasma (PRP) is added. So what is PRP and how does it work?

Platelet Rich Plasma Case History
Platelet Rich Plasma Turns the Tide
Prolotherapy - Platelet Rich Plasma Solution
PRP and bilateral elbow tendinosis
Why Not Just Give PRP To Every Patient?