A non-surgical approach and alternative to joint replacement and arthroscopic surgery
Have you suffered from some type of muscle, bone or joint pain at some point? Or have you sustained an injury that just doesn’t seem to heal and has been lingering for months or even years? Have you been taking pain killers and receiving cortisone shots and the pain returns? Rather than simply taking medications to suppress your symptoms, we get to the root of the problem with prolotherapy.
At the Magaziner Center for Wellness, we use prolotherapy injections of natural substances placed precisely into damaged tendons, ligaments, joints or soft tissue. This therapy initiates a natural healing process which can strengthen and repair damaged ligaments and tendons that stabilizes the joint and reduces inflammation and pain.
Whether you have degenerative arthritis or pain in your back, neck, shoulders, hips, knees, or feet, we have helped hundreds of patients with prolotherapy, also known as proliferative therapy, regenerative joint injections, or non-surgical joint or tendon reconstruction, along with other treatments we offer, including platelet rich plasma (PRP), neuromusculoskeletal and manipulative therapy, cellular regenerative treatments and peptide therapies.
Prolotherapy is the injection of a simple sugar or dextrose. It is not cortisone it is not hyaluronic acid. It is a regenerative medicine injection that helps rebuild damaged joints and spine. There is decades of research to support this treatments use. Here we will highlight the latest research, a study from 2021 that appears in the medical journal Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. (1)
“Prolotherapy, which stimulates the healing of loosened ligaments and tendons, is a cost-effective and safe treatment modality for chronic musculoskeletal pain. . . Dextrose prolotherapy is more effective in the treatment of chronic pain compared to saline injection or exercise. Its effect was comparable (favorable) to that of platelet-rich plasma or steroid (cortisone) injection.”
How does prolotherapy work?
“Prolotherapy is a nonsurgical regenerative injection technique that administers small amounts of an irritant solution (this is what the dextrose does, it causes a slight irritation or inflammation) to the degenerated tendon insertions (entheses), joints, ligaments, and adjacent joint spaces over a series of several treatment sessions. (It works by) the injected proliferate causing a healing process that is similar to the body’s natural healing process, whereby a local inflammatory cascade is initiated, which triggers the release of growth factors and collagen deposition. To date, many studies which support the benefits of the use of prolotherapy in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain have been reported.”
Knee osteoarthritis
A May 2020 study (2) suggested: “Intra-articular dextrose prolotherapy injections reduced pain, improved function and quality of life in patients with knee osteoarthritis compared with blinded saline injections. The procedure is straightforward and safe.”
Hip osteoarthritis
A February 2020 study (3) showed that prolotherapy could provide significant improvement for clinical outcomes in degenerative hip disease even in patients with Developmental Dysplasia.
Ankle osteoarthritis
A July 2019 study (4) showed prolotherapy provided “excellent or good outcomes” (as) reported by 88.8% of the patients.
Plantar Fasciitis
A January 2021 study (5) showed that after 12 weeks post injection, corticosteroid and dextrose prolotherapy offered patients similar pain relief, prolotherapy’s additional benefit was it did not offer the possible side-effects cortisone does.
Whiplash
A September 2020 study (6) suggested “significant improvement was achieved and maintained through 18 months after (prolotherapy) treatment in (whiplash patients). Prolotherapy may be an appropriate treatment option for carefully selected patients with whiplash associated disorders.
Elbow pain
A December 2020 study (7) compared hyaluronic acid and prolotherapy injections and found that while both were effective in reducing pain and increasing grip strength and function in patients with chronic tennis elbow pain, Prolotherapy injection was more effective in the short term than hyaluronic acid injection, in terms of pain relief and functional outcome.
TMJ
A November 2020 study (8) found prolotherapy injections provided “clinically important and statistically significant improvement in (TMJ) pain and dysfunction at 12 months after injection.
Rotator Cuff
A February 2019 (9) study found that prolotherapy was even effective in treating rotator cuff disorders in patients who had failed rotator cuff repair surgery. Significant improvements in the shoulder functions and pain relief were noted.
Failed back surgery patients
Studies have demonstrated prolotherapy’s effectiveness in helping patients with back pain. A May 2019 study (10) further demonstrated that selected patients with failed back surgery achieved significant pain relief. Further, (prolotherapy) should be kept in mind for Failed Back Surgery Syndrome patients before giving a decision of revision surgery.”
Whether you have degenerative arthritis or pain in your back, neck, shoulders, hips, knees, or feet, we have helped hundreds of patients with prolotherapy, also known as proliferative therapy, regenerative joint injections, or non-surgical joint or tendon reconstruction, along with other treatments we offer, including platelet rich plasma (PRP), neuromusculoskeletal and manipulative therapy, cellular regenerative treatments and peptide therapies.