Understanding What Prolotherapy Is
If you are suffering from chronic pain, you might as well try a treatment called prolotherapy or, in other terms, nonsurgical ligament reconstruction.This kind of treatment has been making quite an impression among sufferers of chronic pain.
Among individuals who can use prolotherapy as a treatment method include those that are suffering from TMJ, sciatica, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyaglia, partially torn tendons, ligaments and cartilages, those who are experiencing back and neck pains, those who have acquired injuries, among others.
So, you still do not understand what prolotherapy is, right?
First, it is important to understand what the word prolotherapy itself means. For one, the word “prolo” actually means to proliferate, grow or form and this meaning is very much appropriate for what the treatment does and that is to help new ligament tissues form as a replacement of the weaker old ones.
Ligaments are what holds the bones to the joints. Since they are elastic, they are usually weak, easily injured and may not easily go back to its original vitality.
Also, once the ligament gets damaged, it usually heals quite slowly since blood flow is also slow in the ligaments.
To further complicate this, ligaments also have many nerve endings and therefore the person will feel pain at the areas where the ligaments are damaged or loose.
Tendons are the name given to tissue which connects muscles to bones, and in the same manner tendons may also become injured, and cause pain.
There has been historical findings that the process of prolotherapy was first used by Hippocrates on soldiers who have torn shoulder joints or dislocated shoulders.What he did was to stick the joint with a hot poker which would cause the injury to heal in normal way.Nowadays, hot pokers are not used anymore, yet the principle of letting the body heal itself, a natural course that the body is capable of, still applies.
TND, Trigger Point Dry Needling, acts similarly like prolotherapy since it also follows the same idea with tissues being grown.The treatment uses acupuncture needles to shut down tight and trigger points in the muscle.This deactivation involves pistoning of the needle which causes a local inflammatory reaction in the tissue being needled.Certain tissues in which trigger point dry needling can be very effective include the ligaments, muscles, tendons and fascia.
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