A Non Surgical Injury Recovery Method
Prolotherapy, which was developed over fifty years ago, is a natural non-surgical method of assisting the body to heal injured tendons and ligaments. Prolotherapy has been used by patients and athletes who need help restoring their bodies.
Prolotherapy helps your body make new cells to strengthen lax or torn tendons and ligaments. (Ligaments are the tough tissues which connect bones to bones, and tendons are the same kind of tissue which connect muscles to bones.)
What are the benefits?
Patients usually are able to immediately return to their daily activities with few or no side effects.
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Does not involve surgery
No scar tissue is formed!
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All natural treatment
No drug side effects
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Strengthens tendons and ligaments
Reduction or alleviation of pain
Role in Healing
Pain aftermath
Why would you still have pain in an injured area or why that area remains weak, after a healing period of weeks or months. The answer lies in the fact that both ligaments and tendons have very poor blood circulation, which deprives them of the nutrients required to heal properly. These weakened areas may have little or no blood flow, but they have lots of nerves. When ligaments become relaxed and weak, these nerves within and around the ligament and tendons become stretched and irritated. Pain results.
Strengthen tendons and ligaments
Unfortunately these tissues are not muscle, they do not respond to exercise as muscles do. Exercise cannot build or strengthen ligaments or tendons, but Prolotherapy can help repair the weakened ligaments and tendons of a chronic injury. Or if you simply want to strengthen certain areas of your body to prevent injury, Prolotherapy can help you achieve that, too.
Scientifically Observed
Prolotherapy has been scientifically observed to increase the size of tendons and ligaments up to 40%. As well as increase in their tensile strength by as much as 200%. No scar tissue is formed. The tissue formed from Prolotherapy is healthy, strong, flexible ligament or tendon tissue. Once the ligament or tendon has been repaired by Prolotherapy, the nerves are no longer stretched or irritated, and the pain goes away.
How many treatments are usual?
Each person's response to Prolotherapy is different. The average number of treatments needed ranges from one to six. Some people need only one treatment, while others may require as many as ten or twenty. It depends on the individual case.
Conditions Helped with Prolotherapy
Painful conditions routinely addressed with Prolotherapy include arthritis, back pain, headaches, migraines, degenerated discs, herniated discs, torn cartilage, sports injuries, fibromyalgia, tennis elbow, knee injuries, low back pain, whiplash, RSD pain, TMJ, heel spurs, plantar fascilitis, rotator cuff injuries, frozen shoulder, and sciatica.
We serve patients who live in Alhambra, Altadena, Atwater, Burbank, Eagle Rock, Echo Park, Encino, Glendale, Highland Park, Hollywood, La Canada, La Crescenta, Los Angeles, Monterey Hills, Pasadena, Sherman Oaks, Silver Lake.