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 ...

New clinical data suggests intra-articular injections of hypertonic dextrose are safe and effective at alleviating knee pain caused by osteoarthritis, a condition affecting nearly 30 million Americans ...

Dexterity through Dextrose For osteoarthritis sufferers, injections of a sugar solution could be much more than placebo, a new study suggests (K.D. Reeves et al., "Randomized prospective double-blind ...

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 ...

(Reuters Health) - - 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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given its blessing to Amphastar Pharmaceuticals for dextrose injection 50% in the 50-ml Luer-Jet Prefilled Syringe System. The medication is a sterile, ...

Q: I'm a 66-year-old man whose right knee really hurts from arthritis. My sister keeps talking about something called prolotherapy. What is it, and can it help? A: Prolotherapy is an injection-based ...

Ninety adults who had at least three months of painful knee osteoarthritis were randomized to receive dextrose prolotherapy injections, saline injections or at-home exercise. Injections were done at ...

The National Institutes of Health considers prolotherapy, a treatment for pain, as a complementary and alternative medicine. “Prolotherapy is becoming increasingly popular as an alternative treatment, ...

1 University of Notre Dame, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Sports Medicine Programs, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 Sydney Spine & Pelvis Physiotherapy ...

Share on Pinterest Dextrose is similar to fructose and glucose. Dextrose is a type of simple sugar made from corn. It is similar to fructose and chemically identical to glucose, which is blood sugar.