How does prolotherapy promote natural healing?
Prolotherapy is short for “proliferation therapy.” Prolotherapy causes the growth, or proliferation, of new ligament tissue in areas where it has weakened. Your ligaments are the structural bonds that hold bone to bone in your joints. Sometimes ligaments will not heal back to their original strength after an injury. The healing is incomplete since the ligament’s blood supply is limited. Because your ligaments have many nerve endings, this causes pain in the area of ligament damage. Your tendons are the tissue that connects bones to muscle. Like ligaments, they too can become injured and cause chronic pain. Prolotherapy works by exactly the same process that the human body naturally uses to stimulate its healing system, a process called inflammation. Prolotherapy uses a saline solution injected into the injured tendon or ligament where it attaches to the bone. This causes a localized inflammation in these weak areas. This increases the blood supply and thus the flow of nutrients that st
