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KMID : 0948920110100020089
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Clinical Pain
2011 Volume.10 No. 2 p.89 ~ p.96
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Prolotherapy for the Patient with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
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Seo Kyung-Mook
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Abstract
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Prolotherapy, a kind of injection treatments, was designed to stimulate the wound healing cascade in degenerative soft tissues around joints. Stability of joints is largely supported by surrounded soft tissue structures such as ligaments, joint capsules, and muscles. These structures are known to be joint stabilizers, and they are important to maintain normal joint functions. However, these structures are susceptible to injury and this injury could cause painful condition with joint instability. Prolotherapy could be used to alleviate the chronic pain which involve the joint stabilizers by encourage repair and strengthen the degenerative soft tissue; for this purpose, several solutions including dextrose and sodium morrhuate are used in prolotherapy. In some patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain, dysfunctions in fibro-osseous junction (ligament attached site to bone) and teno-osseous junction (tendon insertion site to bone) could be accompanied. Repetitive injuries to fibro-osseous or teno-osseous junctions could weaken these structures and induce chronic pain. Prolotherapy could be helpful to restore and strengthen these structures.
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KEYWORD
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Prolotherapy, Chronic musculoskeletal pain
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