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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Study Looks at Pain Processing Abnormalities in Knee OA For adults with knee osteoarthritis, dextrose prolotherapy is associated with greater improvements in pain, function, and stiffness compared ...

A randomized controlled trial conducted by a research team at a primary care clinic at the Chinese University of Hong Kong indicates that intra-articular-only injection therapy with hypertonic ...

Pain management: Lessons from patients Dextrose prolotherapy is associated with greater improvements in pain, function and stiffness compared with saline injections or at-home exercise. HealthDay News ...

An alternative medicine approach to joint pain that typically uses injections of sugar or sodium may be worth trying for knee osteoarthritis after traditional approaches fail, a recent review suggests ...

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 ...

Design A prospective case-series. Setting A London private hospital. Participants Seven patients: five male and two female; (mean age=36 years+4 months) referred to a specialist tertiary referral ...