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Have you heard of Prolozone therapy? This form of regenerative medicine can boost your body’s natural healing processes and help you to enjoy an active, pain-free life. But you might wonder how Prolozone works. Are the results permanent, or will you have to keep coming back for repeated treatments? What can you expect from the Prolozone process? This blog post explains some important information.

Discomfort from sports injuries and other aches and pains can put a damper on your overall quality of life. You can take medication to ease your symptoms, but wouldn’t it be better if you could find a treatment that would actually improve the root cause of your suffering? Prolozone therapy might be able to help. What exactly is Prolozone, and what is it good for? This blog post explains.

Are you struggling with pain from an old injury or other bodily aches? You might be thinking about visiting a doctor to ask about amniotic growth factor injections. This natural treatment can power up your body’s healing process and move you closer to a pain-free life. But what exactly are amniotic growth factor injections? How long do they take to work? Read on below to learn the answers.

Have you heard of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy? This treatment uses the platelet-rich part of your blood to promote healing at the site of damaged tissues. It has been shown to speed up recovery and reduce pain. How can you boost your PRP results? One thing you can do is make some minor changes to your diet following your PRP appointment. This blog post touches on some foods you should eat, as well as some that you should steer clear of.

Have you heard of prolotherapy? This remarkable form of regenerative medicine has already helped countless patients to find freedom from pain. Could it help you as well? Just how successful is prolotherapy? Is it just a form of alternative treatment that occasionally helps patients, or does it consistently produce results? Continue reading to learn valuable information about it.

When you hear the word “ultrasound,” what comes to mind? Probably an expecting mother hoping to get a peak at their child, right? While this is certainly the most well-known use of the technology, it is actually a mainstay in non-surgical orthopedics as well. With ultrasound, a doctor can diagnose certain injuries more accurately compared to an X-ray and then also use it to deliver treatment with extreme precision.

According to a literal mountain of data and anecdotal evidence, you and pretty much everyone you know will experience some level of back pain at one point or another. Hopefully it’s short-lived, but in many cases, it can manifest as sciatica, which can lead to soreness, tingling, and numbness that runs down the hamstring and into the calf. Sciatica is notoriously difficult to treat directly, but can prolotherapy help? As it turns out, yes, but only in specific circumstances.

You are probably familiar with the words amniotic, growth, and factors, but what exactly are “amniotic growth factors”? It is actually the name of one of the most popular forms of regenerative medicine being used today. Despite this, the general population tends to know very little about it, and this includes people who could benefit from it! If you’re dealing with any kind of chronic pain, it might be an option worth exploring, and here are three of the most important facts.

More and more people dealing with all sorts of acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain are turning to osteopathic manipulation to find relief, but many patients who could benefit from it have little to no idea about how it actually works. Thankfully, the experience is somewhat similar to getting a massage or chiropractic adjustment, but the differences between OM and these methods matter. If you’re ready to put your pain behind you and want to know more about what it’s like to get osteopathic manipulation, keep reading to be walked through the 3 basic steps.

If you’re in pain, now is the best time to be alive in human history. That might sound like an odd statement, but there are more options than ever when it comes to getting lasting relief. Beyond things like medication and surgery, there are a collection of non-invasive, hands-on treatments that patients can turn to, including massage, chiropractic care, and osteopathic manipulation. To a casual observer, these might seem very similar, but osteopathic manipulation actually offers several unique advantages compared to the others, leading to faster healing, more recovery, and overall better outcomes. What are they? You’ll find just a few highlighted below.