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After a musculoskeletal injury, there is often a strain or stretch of ligaments. Usually, healing occurs restoring ligaments to their normal strength. However, poor circulation and healing to the ligaments or tissue can produce joint structures that to not heal properly,lack stability and are prone to re-injury. We typically see these types of injuries treated with nonsteroidal medications or steroid injections; however, those types of treatments typically halt blood flow and repair mechanisms to the injured tissue, which actually delays or Common approaches to treatment, including nonsteroidal medications or steroid injections, can result in delayed or terminate proper healing mechanism.
Prolotherapy has been used to treat chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions for well over 50 years. It was developed and refined by several physicians in the Midwest. These doctors found that injecting an irritant into tendons and ligaments resulted in healing and long-term improvement. Research has shown changes in collagen —one of the building blocks for connective tissue — with prolotherapy injections and clinical studies have found benefit of the injections for specific chronic pain conditions.