The Journal of Prolotherapy® is a peer-reviewed journal with the purpose of providing the readers with new, cutting-edge information on Prolotherapy, as well as provide a forum for physicians and patients alike to tell their stories.
As of 2012, all issues of the Journal of Prolotherapy are FREE to access online.
FEATURED ARTICLE
The Diagnosis and Management of Upper Gluteal Pain
James Inklebarger, MD, Volume 12 : 2020The sacroiliac joint (SIJ) can become dysfunctional through trauma and/ or pregnancy. The mechanism involves direct or repetitive microtrauma to the buttocks/ lower back. Treatment with specialised physiotherapy alleviates the problems in ~ 80% of cases. The remainder may respond to prolotherapy (hypertonic glucose injections into the dorsal intra-osseous ligament (DIOL) after multiple injections. We hypothesised that the response may be more rapid with injection of platelet enriched plasma (PRP) into the DIOL under ultrasound guidance.
more »FEATURED ARTICLE
The Use of Prolotherapy for Chondromalacia Patella (Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome)
Ross A. Hauser, MD, Volume 10 : 2018Chondromalacia patella is a musculoskeletal pain disorder in which degeneration of cartilage underneath the patella can induce symptoms of pain, stiffness, and crepitus. If left untreated, it can often lead to knee osteoarthritis. Current treatments for chondromalacia patella (physical therapy, NSAIDs, etc.) are often ineffective and sometimes detrimental to the health of the knee. A proposed, alternative treatment currently provided to some patients is Prolotherapy, an injection technique used to stimulate the growth of new cells, including connective tissue.
more »Why the Journal of Prolotherapy®?
Our mission is to educate the world about the life-changing effects of Prolotherapy. Like you, we want more people to know that there is hope to get out of chronic pain and that hope is Prolotherapy.
When a person finds out about Prolotherapy for the first time, they often say or think “why haven’t I heard of this before?” JOP is doing their best to make sure everyone in chronic pain has at least heard about Prolotherapy. The skeptics of Prolotherapy often say that research is lacking. To put more of it out there, we continue to print in electronic and paper journal format, the experiences of doctors and patients with Prolotherapy. The whole journal revolves around the regenerative injection technique known as Prolotherapy.
JOP believes that it is important to get both the doctors’ and the patients’ perspectives. We believe that the greatest evidence for the effectiveness of Prolotherapy is not going to come from a “double-blind scientific study” but from the millions of changed lives from Prolotherapy. In essence, almost every patient that gets Prolotherapy proves that Prolotherapy works.
Most folks who get Prolotherapy have a chronic degenerative condition. These conditions are supposed to get worse with time. When such a person receives Prolotherapy and their condition subsequently reverses, as evidenced not only by the relief of pain, improvement in activity level, decrease in medication usage and usage of other health care for their pain, but also by X-ray and MRI improvement, this, in our opinion, is definitive proof that Prolotherapy does, indeed, regenerate structures.
With your help, we hope to continue to change lives. We want to get people back to sports, back to being active and without pain, back to being the kind of people they wish to be! We see hundreds, thousands, even millions of people getting out of pain because they received the life-changing effects of Prolotherapy. We believe that this is a cause worth fighting for! We hope you will join the fight by subscribing to JOP, writing articles, case studies, even your own experience with Prolotherapy, and get others on this crusade. Together educating the world about a successful treatment for chronic pain…and that treatment is Prolotherapy!