Prolotherapy for SI joint pain

Posted by lara2323 @lara2323, Mar 6, 2022

I am considering undergoing prolotherapy for chronic SI joint pain. Unfortunately the practitioner couldn't tell me how long patients had relief.
Has anyone had prolotherapy on their SI joint? If so, how many treatments did you receive and how long did the pain relief last?

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I had an excellent response to Prolotherapy. My SI Joint was causing lots of trouble after a hip operation left one leg shorter than the other. The prolotherapy treatment worked on the ligament connected to the SI Joint that had become "lax", or overstretched, and could not support the hEDS joint as it normally would. The treatment activates your body to fix itself and in my case this particular fix took 10 days before the ligament tightened itself in the middle of the night, like a rubber band snapping back.
So, prolotherapy fixes ligaments, tendons and other soft tissues but not the joint itself. My SI Joint still moves a bit too far, but a knee to the chest and keeping the connective muscles in good shape and not overly tight. My Doctor did say that I might need a repeat after 5-10 years. It has been over 5. I have also heard that a fix on the first round is a bit unusual.
Due to a second hip operation, this one gone bad, my SI Joint was taxed again. This time, as I wasn't walking much, the damage went up the spine, loosening all the joints. My cervical joints became loose enough to cause issues. Another prolotherapy treatment tightened the ligaments that are actually part of those cervical joints and the blood flood to my brain is protected. For these joints a chin to the neck, pulled up like a castle guard works to do small readjustments.
I really believe I would not be walking around today without protherapy and am so glad to see Mayo include treatments in their wheelhouse.

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Please help me out and share the name of your prolotherapy doctor that did your si and your cervical ligaments? 🙏🙏 thanks in advance! I'm going thru exactly what u describe here. I would be so grateful for you to share your doctors name please! 🙂 thank you for ur post and thank you for taking the time to help me, and others like us, out!

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Do your own research as well as ask experienced patients!
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