Pain is one of the most common sensations in life. It is capable of making a full grown man cry which makes most of man’s experience of pain unbearable and excruciating. Pain is the most powerful sensation in which it affects a person’s emotion. Pain can be lessen or even eradicated. This is made possible because of the fast development of technology specifically modern medicine. Among this is a method called prolotherapy which mainly involves injection of certain irritant solution into a patient’s joint space. With this, it will allow not only relieving of pain but also stimulation and promotion of healing. It is clinically tested to rapidly produce the amount of collagen and cartilage which helps stimulates the immune system.
The Pros of Prolotherapy
• This medical method is capable of rapidly increasing the human body’s production of collagen and cartilage. This collagen and cartilage are the ones that initiate the body’s immune system to activate its capability to heal itself.
• Prolotherapy is capable of treating pain related issues such as hand pain, foot pain, and moderate to severe migraine, lower back pain, knee pain, leg pain, shoulder pain, ankle pain, and hip pain. Not only that it helps manage or even treat pain this procedure strengthens and restores joints as well as the supporting of soft tissues in the body.
• The increase in collagen production of the human body allows it to strengthen the skeletal structure of the body. This is due to the increase of connective tissue formation caused by the increase in production of collagen.
• This medical method works not only in specific areas of the body but the entire human body from top of a humans head down to its feet.
• The beauty of this treatment is that it is widely known and accepted worldwide by several leading pain treatment specialists. And proven to help people minimize or even eradicate pain.
• This is one of the leading options to relieve or eliminate pain which also inhibits other beneficial effect. It will help patients to restore their well being before they have experience irritating and excruciating pain.
• It promotes a healthy cartilage that minimizes the possibility of arthritis and other cartilage related disorder.
The Cons of Prolotherapy
• This medical method or treatment uses an invasive procedure that includes risks.
• Though it relives and even eradicate pain it will also introduce pain especially during and after the procedure. It takes a couple of minutes for some hours for the treatment to sink in. this is mainly because of being an invasive procedure.
• As every person vary from one another which will affect the prolotherapy. There are some instances and situation that a patient does not react to the given treatment. In worst case scenario there are those that have side effect such as irritation and many more.
• There are some rare cases that have been reposted of patients suffering from mild to moderate stroke after the treatment has been done. In which there are always uncertainties as each individual varies from one another.
Medical products and procedure will always have its own risk. It is more appropriate to be more open-minded and know more about the situation before making any rush decision. Being aware helps individuals look at a given situation more clearly and wide.