Arthritis, joint injury, and chronic pain may weaken, inhibiting movement and total well-being. While treatments with conventional approaches such as medication for pain and physical therapy, can assist, they cannot cure the source of the problem. 

Here are steps in Prolotherapy, a nonsurgical, non-medicated form of therapy that allows the body to repair itself. If long-lasting relief for pain and joint issues is something being sought after, then maybe one should think about Prolotherapy. 

What is Prolotherapy? 

Prolotherapy is a complete type of therapy where a dextrose (sugar) or other irritating solution is placed into a stretched, weak ligament, tendon, or joint. This creates stimulation in the body’s repair mechanism to produce new tissue to tighten up the weak tissue. As opposed to pain medications that just numb the pain, Prolotherapy targets the source of pain, with improved stability and function over time.

1. A Natural Alternative to Surgery

Surgery has traditionally been reserved for people who suffer joint damage or persistent pain, but surgery also has complications, long recovery, and risks. Prolotherapy is a natural, nonoperative treatment where a person cure themselves instead of undergoing surgery. 

No surgery is required in patients with arthritis and sports injuries. In almost all of them, the etiology of most distress lies in loose or traumatised connective tissues, and Prolotherapy can correct these tissues and return them to health and strength and reestablish normal function and stability to the joint again. Prolotherapy helps you avoid the high cost and long recovery of surgery while providing lasting pain relief.

2. Pain Relief Independent of Medicines

Medication for pain, including painkillers bought over the counter such as anti-inflammatory drugs and pain medication by prescription from a doctor, is all just a sign of the disease. Medication for pain taken in the long term also has side effects such as ulcers in the stomach, liver impairment, and drug dependency. Prolotherapy presents a natural way of achieving relief from pain through the activation of the natural healing power of the body. 

By healing the cause of the pain-generating condition, and not just the resulting symptom, Prolotherapy removes inflammation and stimulates regular tissue growth. Permanent relief for most patients comes after a series of Prolotherapy injections, with significant reduction or cessation of medicines.

3. Maintains Joint Mobility and Stability

One of the advantages of Prolotherapy is that it tightens tendons and ligaments, which are essential for stabilising joints. When tendons and ligaments are torn or weakened by trauma, aging, or degenerative disease like arthritis, joints lose stability and result in pain and limited motion. 

Prolotherapy does this by stimulating the production of collagen and tightening and tightening such connective tissue. Tightening tendons and ligaments makes the joints more stable and enables movement with less likelihood of re-trauma. This is very helpful to the athlete, the active patient, and to those with chronic joint instability.

4. Facilitation of Arthritis Management

Arthritis is a degenerative joint disease that strikes millions of people, leading to chronic joint pain, stiffness, and loss of function. Traditional arthritic treatment is symptomatic and not etiologic. Prolotherapy is more facilitative in the context that it induces tissue repair and inflammation reduction within the joint. 

Prolotherapy injections stimulate the development of new cartilage and connective tissue in osteoarthritis patients and therefore bring the disease process to a halt. Patients undergoing prolotherapy have been discovered to rehabilitate joint function to normal and find relief from pain so that they may recover and live their lives without resorting to invasive surgery or medication. 

Prolotherapy is also used in other types of arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis, by counteracting the inflammation and immobilisation of the affected joint. Although it heals nothing, there is not even any trace of pain in most of the patients and even improved mobility in the longer term.

5. Short Recovery Period and Long-term Benefits

One of the biggest advantages of Prolotherapy is its minimal downtime. Unlike surgery, which requires weeks or months of recovery, Prolotherapy is a quick in-office procedure with little to no downtime. The patient can likely return to normal activities as soon as treatment is completed, which is why it is such an excellent treatment for active patients. 

Although more than one session procedure is necessary to achieve the ultimate benefit, the majority of patients report dramatic improvement following a visit or two to the physician. Prolotherapy, because it not only eliminates pain but also rebuilds torn tissue, results in a permanent outcome with ongoing relief and improvement of joint function over time.

6. Prolotherapy for Sports Injuries

Agonistic players and athletes will end up suffering from severe pain in order to heal tendinosis and ligament injuries. Runner’s knee, rotator cuff strain, and tennis elbow are debilitating syndromes whose acute stage ends up building long-term chronic pain. Prolotherapy is one of the treatment options effective for these types of injuries since they allow for an increased rate of repair in the injured tissue as well as strengthen the same further. 

By stabilising tendons and ligaments, Prolotherapy not only accelerates the return of athletes to their active state from injury but also reduces the likelihood of reinjury. Professional sportsmen and amateur sportsmen employ Prolotherapy as a way of keeping in first-class physical condition without surgery or long-term medication. 

Who Can Benefit from Prolotherapy? 

Prolotherapy is appropriately suited to a very wide type of patient having degenerative joint disease, chronic pain, or injury. Prolotherapy most frequently is employed for: 

• Osteoarthritis 

• Hypermobility or joint instability 

• Injury to tendons and ligaments 

• Lower back pain 

• Neck pain 

• Rotator cuff injury 

• Lateral epicondylitis (Tennis elbow) 

• Knee pain and meniscus tear 

• Sciatic pain and sacroiliac joint dysfunction 

• Sports injury 

If you’re suffering from persistent injury with other treatments, or ongoing joint pain, then Prolotherapy suits you best. 

Experience the Prolotherapy Difference with Sydney Foot Clinic 

You are sick and tired of living in pain and want to reclaim your joint health and your life. Sydney Foot Clinic offers regenerative treatments like Prolotherapy, offering relief and mobility for decades to our patients.  

Our team of qualified practitioners use an individualistic approach to treatment, and you will be specifically treated according to your own individual requirements. Perhaps you have had a chronic sporting injury, or arthritis, or simply joint laxity in general, we can get rid of the pain and get you moving again. 

We don’t do the quick fix at Sydney Foot Clinic. We do care about curing your pain for the long term, not the short term. And that’s why we take time to check why you have this condition and provide you with the best solution for your circumstances. 

Don’t let pain get you down. Call Sydney Foot Clinic today and find out how Prolotherapy can set you on the road to a healthier, more active life.