Prolotherapy and PRP Injections

Regenerative injections for tendons, ligaments and joints in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Some tissue stops repairing itself. A tendon that has been sore for eight months, a ligament that never fully came back, a joint that aches through everything you throw at it. Both of these treatments restart that process.

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Prolotherapy

Clinical grade dextrose or mannitol is injected just below the skin to prompt healing in injured nerves and connective tissue. Dextrose promotes repair in ligaments and tendons and in the nerves running through them, and once those nerves are working normally the deeper tissue follows and the pain settles.

Injured tissue releases substances that drive inflammation. The dextrose binds to and inhibits the nerve receptors involved, which stops further production of inflammatory fluid and restores normal nerve function.

Used for

• Muscular and skeletal injury with ongoing pain
• Ligament and tendon injury that has not resolved
• Joint pain with no clear structural cause

PRP injections

Platelet-rich plasma comes from your own blood. A sample is spun in a high-powered centrifuge that separates and concentrates the growth factors, and those are injected into the area being treated to stimulate new growth and healing.

Joint and soft tissue pain

PRP accelerates healing in injured tendons, ligaments, muscles and joints using your own platelets, so your own repair system does the work on your own musculoskeletal problem.

Hair restoration

PRP stimulates inactive follicles back into a growth phase without surgery. Men and women dealing with significant hair loss can get an easy, non-surgical option for activating healthy growth.

How this fits with your other care

An injection prompts repair in a specific structure. The joint still has to move correctly afterward, or the same tissue takes the same load and you are back where you started, which is why this runs alongside the Acacia Chiropractic Method and PEMF and laser therapy.

For soft tissue injury that has stalled, peptide therapy is sometimes part of the same conversation.

Common questions

What is the difference between prolotherapy and PRP?

Prolotherapy injects a clinical grade dextrose or mannitol solution. PRP injects a concentrate made from your own blood. Both are prompting the same thing, which is a repair response in tissue that stopped repairing itself, and which one suits you depends on the tissue, the injury and how long it has been going on.

Where does the PRP come from?

Your own blood. A sample is drawn, spun in a high-powered centrifuge to separate and concentrate the growth factors, and injected into the area being treated. There is nothing foreign going in.

What can PRP treat besides joints?

Hair restoration. PRP stimulates inactive follicles back into a growth phase without surgery, and it works for men and women dealing with significant hair loss.

Does it hurt?

There is a needle involved and you will feel it. Most people describe the injection itself as brief and the ache afterward as the harder part, because the point of both treatments is to provoke an inflammatory repair response. That ache means it is doing what it was meant to do.

How many injections will I need?

Set after your assessment. It depends on the tissue, the severity and how your body responds to the first round, and you will be told the plan and the cost before you commit to it.

Is this instead of chiropractic care?

Alongside it. An injection prompts repair in a specific structure, and the joint still has to move correctly afterward or the same tissue takes the same load again. Your case is co-managed so both happen.

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