Short for “proliferation” therapy, Prolotherapy is also known as nonsurgical ligament and tendon reconstruction or regenerative injection therapy. Prolotherapy stimulates the body’s own natural healing mechanisms to repair injured musculoskeletal tissue.

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) uses platelets, best known for their role in clotting blood. Platelets also contain hundreds of proteins called growth factors which are very important for healing injuries. PRP is plasma with many more platelets than what is typically found in blood.

 

  • Prolotherapy

    Joint pain, commonly known as arthritis, affects millions of Americans. Along with diet and exercise modification, prolotherapy can be a highly effective approach to treating joint pain. Simply put, prolotherapy causes a mild and productive pro-inflammatory reaction to an injected joint, which thereby causes the body’s own healing cells (i.e., fibroblasts) to decrease pain. Prolotherapy regenerates joint tissue. The injection is made up of Vitamin B12, lidocaine, and glucose.

  • Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)

    Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy uses injections of a concentration of a patient’s own platelets to accelerate the healing of injured tendons, ligaments, muscles and joints. A patient’s blood is drawn and run through a centrifuge. The platelets are then injected into the injured tissue. This releases growth factors that stimulate and increase the number of reparative cells the body produces. PRP injections use each individual patient’s own healing system to amplify the natural growth factors in the body and heal tissue thereby improving musculoskeletal problems.