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Can Prolotherapy Help Even After Knee Surgery?
 Ross
Hauser, M.D.
During an initial consultation, I explain to patients that
Prolotherapy
stimulates the body to repair painful areas. and can help many
conditions, including a knee that has been through
surgery.
It doesn’t matter if the damage to the knee came from an injury,
NSAID,
cortisone, or surgical procedure, the tissue will heal the same
way. If a joint and/or its structures are damaged, weakened, torn, or
degenerated, the treatment needed is
Prolotherapy.
When a person has surgery on a knee, they are typically left with a
decreased amount of
meniscal tissue, which causes greater stress on the articular
cartilage.
In this case, physicians who perform
Prolotherapy
will inject
Prolotherapy injections
into the joint to stimulate repair.
Sometimes stronger proliferants will need to be used to promote faster
healing, such as
Growth Hormone.
Cartilage
cells have Growth Hormone receptors on them. In terms of repair,
cartilage is generally slower to heal than other tissues treated with
Prolotherapy.
Therefore, it may take more time and treatment sessions. With enough
patience, the articular cartilage can and will be repaired.
Prolotherapy
is also successful for the person who experiences suboptimal results
from
knee surgery. Because the degenerative process is always the same,
Prolotherapy
can be used to stimulate repair to the areas that were injured with
surgery.
Prolotherapy
is effective for a multitude of
knee injuries since all of them involve injuries to the same soft
tissue structures, which include the
menisci,
articular cartilage,
tendons, and
ligaments.
HealinG KNEE INJURIES WITHOUT SURGERY
Prolotherapy, in my
opinion, is the best way to avoid surgery! It can promote the repair of
torn cruciate ligaments, torn medial collateral ligaments, injured
meniscus and chondromalacia.
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