How much inflammation?
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It is quite common for someone to ask me or my staff; “How much inflammation should I have with Prolotherapy?” There are actually two answers to this. The first one is obvious. You need enough inflammation to heal. Someone can heal after Prolotherapy with only a minimal inflammatory discomfort and someone else may have the whole area very tender, stiff and inflamed.
So one can not always go by the amount of stiffness or swelling after the Prolotherapy to determine if that person will heal or not. If someone is not improving and not getting stiffness or inflammation, the Prolotherapist can increase the amount of inflammation by changing the solution but there is a more important point here.
Not getting a good inflammatory reaction even with the most gentle basic Prolotherapy solution is an indicator that the persons healing ability is severely compromised. What the person needs to do is work on their overall health!!!!
I can not emphasize the last point enough. If a person just has the Prolotherapist ‘increase' the strength of the solution without correcting their healing deficit, the odds are the person will be back in the Prolotherapists office.
When healing is optimal Prolotherapy works best, often with the more gentle basic solutions.
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