What are the benefits of prolotherapy as opposed to nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs?

What are the benefits of prolotherapy as opposed to nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs?

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...

The benefits of prolotherapy versus things like nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are that we are actually giving the body a chance to heal itself. All we're doing is following the natural healing process of the body, which is inflammation. If someone looks in a physiology book, they'll realize that inflammation is actually good to help heal the body. In western medicine, we think of inflammation as something that hurts the body. Chronic inflammation is not good for the body because it doesn't reach the higher level of inflammation which would be enough to bring the immune system in to actually create the healing process in growing more collagen.