The Science of Prolotherapy: Using Inflammation to Heal
Prolotherapy works on a counterintuitive principle: controlled inflammation heals. When a dextrose solution is injected into a damaged ligament or tendon, it creates a mild, localized inflammatory response that mimics the body's natural healing cascade — recruiting fibroblasts (the cells that produce collagen), stimulating growth factor release, and initiating the repair process that chronic injuries have failed to complete on their own.
Ligaments and tendons have notoriously poor blood supply, which is why they heal slowly and incompletely after injury. Chronic laxity — the stretched, weakened state that results from incomplete healing — creates joint instability that perpetuates pain, accelerates cartilage degeneration, and predisposes to re-injury. Prolotherapy addresses this root structural problem by rebuilding the collagen matrix of the connective tissue itself.
Conditions Treated with Prolotherapy
Chronic Joint Instability or Ligament Pain?
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