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How Prolotherapy Works

Written on May 6th, 2010 in Health Tips by Administrator

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If you are suffering from chronic pain, you might as well try a treatment called prolotherapy or, in other terms, nonsurgical ligament reconstruction. This kind of treatment has been making quite an impression among sufferers of chronic pain.

Prolotherapy is very handy when it comes to different kinds of pains experienced in the muscles and bones of the back and neck area, injuries resulting from playing sports, people with carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyaglia, chronic tendonitis, herniated or degenerated discs, sciatica, TMJ, and partially torn tendons, ligaments and cartilages.

So, you still do not understand what prolotherapy is, right? For one, the word “prolo” actually means to proliferate, grow or form and this meaning is very much appropriate for what the treatment does and that is to help mew ligament tissues form as a replacement of the weaker old ones.

Ligaments are what holds the bones to the joints. Since they are elastic, they are usually weak, easily injured and may not easily go back to its original vitality. The reason for this is because the blood flowing to the ligaments is slow, thus the healing is quite slow. Aside from this problem, ligaments are have a lot of nerve endings that is why the slightest damage could cause unbearable pain.

Tendons are the name given to tissue which connects muscles to bones, and in the same manner tendons may also become injured, and cause pain.

Historical review shows that a version of this technique was first used by Hippocrates on soldiers with dislocated, torn shoulder joints. He would stick a hot poker into the joint, and it would then miraculously heal normally. Of course, we don’t use hot pokers today, but the principle is similarget the body to repair itself, an innate ability that the body has.

Another effective and similar form of prolotherapy that stimulates the proliferation of new tissue is Trigger Point Dry Needling (TDN). TDN involves the use of a fine filament needle (acupuncture needle) to deactivate tight and tender trigger points within a muscle. This deactivation involves pistoning of the needle which causes a local inflammatory reaction in the tissue being needled. Tissues that respond well to this form of intervention include; muscles, tendons, fascia and ligaments.

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