Prolotherapy is an alternative treatment for joint and muscle pain. It usually costs around $150 per injection and isn’t typically covered by insurance. Prolotherapy is an old practice that’s been ...

Most of us think of chronic joint pain as an “old person’s problem.” However, chronic joint pain plagues at least 25% of our population at any given time. Although many children are spared from ...

Prolotherapy involves injecting a dextrose or saline solution into an injury site to promote a healing response. It is a form of regenerative therapy or proliferation therapy. There are different ...

In patients with chronic lateral epicondylosis treated with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) or prolotherapy injections, power Doppler ultrasound has been used to detect treatment response, according to ...

Photographer: Serghei Platonov Imagine this: At your next doctor's appointment, instead of advising you to avoid sugar, your physician proposes treating you with sugar. That scenario may not be too ...

The clinic embraces all aspects of sports and exercise medicine from ‘exercise on prescription’ and ‘functional rehab programmes’ to specialist image guided spinal injections. Simon has a special ...

If you suffer from chronic knee pain, you may have tried anti-inflammatory medicines, physical therapy, or cortisone shots to provide some relief. Now, a new scientific review lends support to a ...

Prolotherapy is a procedure that involves injecting a natural irritant into the soft tissue of an injured joint. Supporters believe that it may provide significant relief for joint or back pain. The ...

Patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) who were treated with several injections of dextrose solution at painful sites in and around the knee had greater and more sustained pain relief than comparison ...

Knee pain appears to decrease up to one year after "prolotherapy," a series of sugar water injections at the site of the pain, according to a new study. Previous research on the therapy that suggested ...

We posed your question to Dr. Mark Darrow, owner of the Prolotherapy Institute in Los Angeles and an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Both prolotherapy and PRP are ...