Prolotherapy is a series of simple injections that stimulate the body to repair damaged and torn ligaments and tendons.  A substance that promotes inflammation (such as dextrose) is injected into and around the ligament, which causes the body to initiate the healing cascade.  The body responding with inflammation, lays down new collagen in the ligaments and tendons where old and damaged collagen exists.  The new collagen tightens and strengthens injected ligaments and tendons providing increased joint stability.  In most cases athletes are able to regain stability in joints that have been damaged from old injuries.  Many patients have reported that prolotherapy has helped them to significantly decrease or completely terminate their reliance on pain pills in lower back pain.  Prolotherapy is very beneficial in that it offers a more long-term solution to joint pain where as traditional medicine has only sought to “cover up” the pain with narcotics instead of addressing the underlying issue. 

Dr. David Jensen has recently joined our team at Arizona Center for Family and Wellness Care and specializes in prolotherapy.  A patient of prolotherapy himself, Dr. Jensen personally recognizes the benefit that prologtherapy can have on ones life. 

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