Abstract
Prolotherapy is a method of injection treatment designed to stimulate healing.’ Many different types of musculoskeletal injuries and pain lend themselves to prolotherapy treatment including low back and neck pain, chronic sprains and/or strains, whiplash injuries, tennis and golfer’s elbow, knee, ankle, shoulder or other joint pain, chronic tendonitis/ten donosis, and musculoskeletal pain related to osteoarthritis. Prolotherapy works by raising growth factor levels or effectiveness in connective tissue ligaments and tendons to promote repair or growth. Prolotherapy has been used in the United States since the 1930s, and the first text on its use was published in the 1950s.” Various solution formulas can be used in prolotherapy the most popular being those which are dextrose-based.
