Prolotherapy Pain Treatment

There are many benefits of choosing prolotherapy as the initial way to treat your pain. Alternative methods commonly used by people with chronic pain are invasive surgery and prescription pain killers. There are many disadvantages to these methods when compared to prolotherapy.

Surgery, in general, is suggested as an option of last resort. There is nothing more stressful on the body than cutting it open and moving things around. Surgery provides many unnecessary risks when looking at pain treatment. Why go under anesthesia, struggle through recovery, and spend months healing before trying a procedure that is so much easier, and not proven to be any less effective. Not to mention that surgery is incredibly expensive. Those operative procedures associated with treating chronic pain tend to run anywhere from $25,000 to $115,000, for something that is far from guaranteeing results. Not to mention money lost from missing work, medications needed after the procedure, and the inconvenience of recovering from an invasive procedure.

There are so many reasons to avoid having surgery that it almost seems patronizing to discuss them all. To put it simply, surgery is incredibly inconvenient. Additionally, the risks associated with surgery are far greater than those of prolotherapy pain treatment. Surgery can prove fatal, especially for seniors or people in a weakened condition.

Painkillers are also often used to fight pain. Unfortunately, the side effects associated with prescription drugs far outweigh the benefits. The worst side effect of this method is addiction. Many people become dependent on pain relieving drugs because of the effects it has on the body’s chemical production. The body also builds up a tolerance, requiring a higher and higher dosage as time goes on. For these reasons pain killers are not an appropriate method of long term pain treatment. They also bring with them a number of nasty side effects, such as depression, constipation, drowsiness, migraine headaches, and internal bleeding. Frequent use of painkillers also means frequently being unable to drive or operate machinery. Many people find prescription drugs a burden, rather than a relief.

Prolotherapy pain treatment is the best method currently available to those seeking relief from chronic pain. This procedure stimulates the body to naturally heal itself, removing any synthetic materials or detrimental chemicals from the healing process. Prolotherapy causes a series of reactions that allows the body’s own immune system to send blood and nutrients to the injured area, regenerate the damaged tissue, and heal. To find out if prolotherapy pain treatment is the best course of action for you, set up a consultation and learn more.