It depends a lot on the areas concerned by the infiltration, however, often the treatment is painless when it is practiced with a good local anesthetic. The anesthetic injection can be considered as the only minimal pain to bear. If the patient is particularly sensitive to the pain of local anesthesia, you can apply an anesthetic cream which helps to cancel the local pain.

The treatment of Prolotherapy is absolutely different from the treatments with “cortisone”. Scientific studies have shown for years that cortisone injections weaken the tissues; on the contrary, the infiltrative Prolotherapy solution determines a reinforcement and a regenerative process of ligaments and tendons.

Prolotherapy has no contraindication metabolism in diabetics because of the small amount of sugar used in infiltration. The solution of water and sugar infiltrated in the tendons or ligaments is totally harmless to the diabetic patient unlike cortisone which instead is not recommended for diabetics.

The number of treatments varies from patient to patient. Many of my patients tell me that they felt partial or total benefit of pain after just one treatment. Patients who have a good immune system and are in good health usually respond with fewer sessions. On average, each person needs at least 3 – 4 sessions, 4 – 6 weeks apart.

The sports injuries are often distracting and distorting in origin that is, tendons and ligaments. If these athletes are treated appropriately and targeted with Prolotherapy, they can take the sport very quickly and with excellent results. For example, sprained knee ligament which causes a joint instability also followed by a local swelling determined by physiological defense. Prolotherapy applies a direct infiltrative proliferative immune attack, which accelerates the healing of unstable ligament. In this way, the instability treated (eg. Knee, shoulder, back, etc.) resumes its physiological function with a guarantee that it will not lose its function because it will be regenerated and reinforced. For sports injuries Prolotherapy is an absolutely beneficial and recommended tratment. Numerous clubs, sports clubs and individual athletes have already tested and used with great success Prolotherapy: the SCI’s national team of the United States, many US teams, professional and not, Basketball and American Football are using this fabulous non surgical therapy for their athletes, with extraordinary results.

Yes!! Many veterinarians in the United States are using this wonderful therapy in animals with great success, sometimes with just one treatment session.

Prolotherapy function well where there is pain in the musculoskeletal apparatus, but it must be done by prolotherapists with years of experience. The benefits as in all therapies are gradual, so the pain subsides after 2-3 sessions. When there is an injured area of a complex of muscles, tendons and ligaments, and it is treated as a choice with prolotherapy, the doctor will also assess muscle-wasting atrophy to be reinforced because these muscles may be weak giving a partial success to prolotherapy instead of a total result.

Absolutely yes!!! Many patients are treated with anticoagulants and cannot take anti-inflammatory drugs for which this therapy is an effective alternative to remove the pain. Many pain syndromes may eventually develop a depressive syndrome, and with prolotherapy the patient can find a balance of well-being that has long lacked.