While stem cell injections are very trendy right now, our physicians have found that most pain can be treated with much less expensive and less invasive using regenerative joint injections. Regenerative joint injection therapies, such as prolozone and PRP, utilize specific ingredients to stimulate the body’s own innate ability to reduce pain and create new tissue. 

Whatever your goal is, regenerative joint injections can help you meet it. Regenerative joint injections in combination with naturopathic care can help our patients achieve remarkable results. Patients have been able to:

• • Start running and cycling again
  • Play golf, tennis, and other sports without pain
  • Play with the kids or grandkids pain-free
  • Garden without having low back or knee pain
  • Avoid orthopedic surgery
  • Improve sleep quality because pain is decreased
  • Use less over the counter and prescription pain medications

Regenerative joint injections are a non-surgical treatment to help create healthy joints, ligament, or tendon tissue. These injections work by stimulating your body’s ability to heal by causing a controlled, low-level inflammatory reaction. Prolozone or other regenerative injections call on your own growth factors, stem cells, cytokines, and other cells to remove damaged tissue and create new, healthy tissue.

Regenerative joint injections work well for people with:

• • Osteoarthritis
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Chronic tendinitis
  • Rotator cuff injuries and labral tears of the shoulder
  • Knee pain and instability, including a torn meniscus
  • Repeated ankle sprains
  • Low back and sacroiliac pain
  • Sciatica
  • Plantar fasciitis
  • TMJ pain
  • The list goes on, but you get the picture!

The better a patient’s general health, the better results they get. Sometimes a patient will need to do some work on certain areas of their health to be ready to get the best results from their regenerative joint injections. Patients who heal slowly, such as smokers or uncontrolled diabetics, take longer to heal and need more treatments. Our physicians have also found that patients with inflammatory arthritis do not respond well to regenerative joint injection therapy. In that case deep tissue laser therapy may be better option for them. 

The answer to this question varies widely and depends on your general health, the regenerative injection therapy that you and your physician choose, and the condition of the area that is being treated.

Generally, the injections are spaced out 2-4 weeks apart and patients need 3-5 treatments.

Of course, your individual needs may differ and our physicians will help you create a realistic idea of what to expect as you move through treatment.