Prolozone

Prolozone therapy is a series of injections that can help heal joints and ligaments. The injections usually contain a numbing agent to eliminate pain during the injection and ozone gas.

Evidence shows that prolozone therapy helps many conditions, including:

• Joints with degenerative arthritis, including hips, knees, ankles, neck, and back (including degenerated discs)
• Plantar fasciitis
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• TMJ
• Sciatica
• Heel spurs
• Neuromas
• Tennis elbow
• Sports injuries

As you age, the cartilage and connective tissue around your joints suffer wear and tear. Your body’s ability to repair tissue decreases as the rate it breaks down increases.

Blood, which contains oxygen for healing, can’t get to the area as well. Cartilage and tissue die, sometimes resulting in a knee or shoulder that is ‘bone-on-bone’ (without a cartilage cushion).

Prolozone therapy injects oxygen and nutrients into the area, promoting healing and reducing pain and inflammation by stimulating regeneration of cartilage.

When compared with surgery for joints that have experienced wear and tear, prolozone offers obvious benefits, such as:

• Fast and Effective: The injection is practically pain-free and produces fast results. You can see improvement in a few weeks with prolozone therapy in your knee, for example, whereas knee surgery involves a longer and more painful recovery.
• Less Invasive: It’s an in-office procedure, not surgery. Surgery requires anesthesia and hospital or outpatient center costs. Any surgery always involves risk of infection. Prolozone injections are low-risk when compared to surgery.
• Promotes Healing: Prolozone acts in conjunction with your body’s natural healing system, allowing new connective tissue to grow.
• Saves Joints: Prolozone therapy can delay or eliminate the need for joint replacement.

Dr. Liebowitz cleans the area around the injection site. He injects a needle with a numbing agent along with ozone into the joint. You’re done in a matter of minutes. For optimal results the therapy requires a series of injections for about six to eight weeks.