What is Prolozone Therapy?
Prolozone Therapy is a non-surgical treatment that helps with joint reconstruction. Because of the systemic nature of the treatment, it’s become a popular option when it comes to treating chronic pain.
Prolozone Therapy treatment uses ozone to cause proliferation, regeneration, and building of new ligament and cartilage tissue in areas where they have become weak.
Injured ligaments cause pain.
Ligaments are the structural “rubber bands” that hold the bones, joints and intervertebral discs together. Ligaments can become worn or injured from an injury, excessive use or surgery, and often do not heal back to their original strength and tightness.
When it happens, it puts a severe strain on the areas that the ligaments are supposed to be holding together, resulting in pain and arthritis in the bones, discs, and joints which are connected. Also, ligaments themselves have many nerve endings which can provide an additional source of pain.
How does it work?
Prolozone Therapy involves the injections of ozone in and around ligaments, where they attach to the bone. The injected ozone increases the blood supply and flow of the healing nutrients. More importantly, it also stimulates the deposition and activity of fibroblasts and chondroblasts. These cells synthesize the collagen and cartilage that the body uses to repair damaged ligaments and joints. This increases the cellular repair activity, strengthens and tightens the injured tissues, and because of this, it stabilizes the area and may remove the cause of pain.
Why is Ozone used?
Ozone is a naturally-occurring, highly reactive molecule consisting of three atoms of oxygen. Because ozone is so reactive, it can stimulate fibroblastic and chondroblastic activity to an almost unbelievable extent. The high level of reactivity, combined with the safety of oxygen, makes ozone the ideal therapeutic molecule.
What can I expect?
The response from treatment varies from individual to individual and depends upon one’s healing ability and level of injury. Some people may only need one or two treatments, while others may need several. Once you begin treatment, the doctor can analyze how you are responding, and will then be able to give you an accurate estimate or what you can expect from further treatments.
What conditions are treated?
Back and neck pain with or without degenerative disk disease, shoulder pain from rotator cuff injuries. And osteoarthritis of the hip, knees, and spine are the most common ailments treated with Prolozone Therapy. Prolozone Therapy is also excellent for many other types of musculoskeletal pain, including fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome, TMJ syndrome, sciatica, plantar fasciitis, neuromas, tennis elbow, and virtually any sports injuries.
It can be especially effective in treating areas that have previously been operated on because of significant injury that occurs to ligaments during surgery.
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