Does prolotherapy work for everyone who experiences chronic pain?

Does prolotherapy work for everyone who experiences chronic pain?

Marc Darrow (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Joint Rehabilitation Sports Medical Center, Inc. ) gives expert video advice on: What are the benefits of prolotherapy as opposed to nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs? and more...

Prolotherapy does not work for every person. No medical procedure works for every person. Prolotherapy works for about 80-90% of the people who use it. The people that don't get results from it are typically the people that are abusing their body by over exercising – they won't let the body have a chance to heal in the area where Prolotherapy has been administrated. They don't think of it as a real medical intervention, like having surgery, where they know they can't do anything for a long time – so, they'll just overuse the area. Some of my patients have backed off from doing three hours of exercise to doing one hour exercise of a joint that needs to rest for a while. The other class of people who don't heal typically are people taking anti-inflammatory medication and not knowing it. They'll take ibuprofen for a headache, they'll take aspirin for a headache – and they don't realize that that is blocking the inflammation that Prolotherapy actually gives to that part of the body to allow it to heal.