Prolotherapy is an established technique for healing lax, stretched, or torn joint ligaments and muscle tendons. The technique consists of injecting a proliferant solution at the site of attachment of the ligament or tendon to the joint bone.

Dr. Clark uses the components of the proliferative solution in an “off-label” fashion, extended beyond the usual and customary recommendations of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA).

Prolotherapy is an appropriate therapy for treating any ligament or tendon sprain injury resulting in joint laxity, instability, dysfunction, or pain.

The usual Prolotherapy technique requires delivering a small volume of proliferant solution to the injured ligament or tendon using the following procedure:

Injection of the proliferant solution may cause some short-lived pain since the ligaments or tendons are injured and are already tender to needle point.

This is always a “crystal ball” prognostication. The extent of treatment required depends on the nature and severity of the patient’s sprain injury and the patient’s musculoskeletal constitution. 

The possible risks of doing no Prolotherapy are:

Possible alternatives to Prolotherapy are:

The potential risks or complications of Prolotherapy are the same as for any medical injection therapy (e.g., flu shot, penicillin shot, cortisone shot):