For those who have tried other options, such as physical therapy, corrective surgery and medication, and have experienced no success, prolotherapy might be able to help relieve your symptoms.
How Does Prolotherapy Stimulate Healing?
To understand how prolotherapy works, you have to break it down in finer details.
- When you get injured, your connective tissue (such as your tendons or ligaments) gets torn and stretched away from your joint or bone, destabilizing you and therefore becoming painful.
- A prolotherapy injection targets the painful area explicitly, by causing a mild inflammation near the damaged tissue.
- The body is tricked into repairing the area, sensing that the inflammation needs to be managed.
- The prolotherapy injection will stimulate the body by producing new collagen tissue, resulting in permanent stabilization of the joint.
- While the pain might subside for a time, you will need consistent injections to get long-term results. Depending on your situation, you will need anything between three to ten injections over six months. Only after such consistent stimulus will be body be able to hold against the pain.
Prolotherapy treatment in Calgary is fast becoming one of the most common options for people suffering from chronic, debilitating pain. If you are looking to try a new solution, reach out and speak to your functional medicine expert today.
Calgary Integrative Medicine provides long-term, sustainable health solutions. We aim for the root cause when treating symptoms and our methods are known to improve quality of life. From pain management to anti-aging and chronic illness treatment, at Calgary Integrative Medicine, we want to get you on the road to healing and recovery. Give us a call at (403) 202-7272 or send an email to info@calgarymed.ca.
