Everything You Need To Know About Undergoing Prolotherapy For Pain Relief

By Patricia Ward


It can be challenging for anyone to have a normal day if joint pain is around. This is true if the ones affected are the lower back, knees and other areas of the body commonly used during everyday activities. Read on if at present you are searching a solution to the problem that does not involve the intake of drugs and undergoing the knife. Some of the most essential things about prolotherapy can be found below.

Basically, it's all about allowing the body to carry out its job in putting an end to joint pain. It involves triggering the healing response integrated into an individual's very own body. Once activated, damaged tissues such as ligaments and cartilages are repaired, thus leading to healing and most especially reduction in pain.

Such healing response can be set off with the help of a natural form of irritant, something that can cause a person's body to spring into action. The said substance is injected into the affected joint. Once introduced into the soft tissues situated in the injured or painful joint, healing and pain relief is begun.

Unfortunately, instantaneous results cannot be expected from the therapy. Usually, a person will have to undergo numerous sessions that can take 3 to 6 months to complete and for the desired effect to be obtained. Experts add that a treatment usually involves the administration of the irritant 4 to 15 times.

What's so nice about this approach is it provides an all natural form of healing. In addition, the result can be permanent as it is the body itself that instigates the repair of the injured or damaged soft tissues. Undergoing it is nothing like the intake of painkilling drugs that only mask the symptoms and not really deal with the root cause. Other than that, these medications are notorious for causing unfavorable side effects and serious health risks.

Sadly, this treatment is not ideal for everyone who wishes to obtain relief from pain in a natural approach. It's very important for the doctor to carefully assess the person to determine whether he or she can be considered as a good candidate for it. To facilitate the process, the precise location and also severity of the trauma have to be established by means of imaging tests.

If you are suffering from a chronic type of medical condition, you are not considered as a candidate. The same is true if you are diagnosed with an autoimmune disease which means that it is your very own immune system that is causing the problem. Enticing an already active immune system to spring into action is a bad idea as it can aggravate the symptoms of those who are suffering from various autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis and lupus, to name a few.

While very promising for people who are regarded as good candidates for undergoing it, this form of treatment does not come cheap. In the US, a procedure may cost anywhere from $250 to $600. Similarly, most insurance companies will not cover it, which means that those who wish to try the treatment have to pay for it themselves.




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