What Is Prolozone Therapy?
Prolozone Therapy is a non-surgical procedure that eliminates or drastically reduces pain by facilitating the body’s own natural ability to heal itself.
Prolozone derived from the Latin word “prolix”, which means to proliferate, regenerate and rebuild. Prolozone Therapy is so named because the treatment uses ozone to cause the proliferation and strengthening of ligament/cartilage tissue in an area where they have become weak.
Ligaments are the structural “rubber bands” that hold the bones, joints and intervertebral discs together. They can become weak or injured from injury, repetitive trauma. Sometimes after surgery or trauma muscle, ligaments, and cartilage does not heal back to their original strength and tightness, resulting in constant agonizing pain and discomfort. Prolozone is very helpful in relieving and repairing damaged ligaments, muscles, joints, and inflammation.
Prolozone Therapy is a non-surgical procedure that eliminates or drastically reduces pain by facilitating the body’s own natural ability to heal itself.
Prolozone derived from the Latin word “prolix”, which means to proliferate, regenerate and rebuild. Prolozone Therapy is so named because the treatment uses ozone to cause the proliferation and strengthening of ligament/cartilage tissue in an area where they have become weak.
Ligaments are the structural “rubber bands” that hold the bones, joints and intervertebral discs together. They can become weak or injured from injury, repetitive trauma. Sometimes after surgery or trauma muscle, ligaments, and cartilage does not heal back to their original strength and tightness, resulting in constant agonizing pain and discomfort. Prolozone is very helpful in relieving and repairing damaged ligaments, muscles, joints, and inflammation.
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How Does Prolozone Therapy Work?
Prolozone Therapy involves the injection of ozone in and around joints, muscles, and ligaments where they attach to the bone. The injected ozone increases blood supply and flow of healing nutrients. It also stimulates deposition and activity of cells called fibroblasts and chondroblasts. Ozone is a naturally-occurring, highly reactive molecule consisting of three atoms of oxygen. Because ozone is highly reactive, it is able to stimulate the fibroblastic and chondroblastic cellular activity, thus resulting in the repair cycle by increasing available oxygen and nutrients to the new forming tissue. |
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Is Prolozone Safe?
Prolozone is an extremely safe and effective treatment to ease pain of any kind caused by decreased oxygen utilization. Prolozone may be used independently or with other pain regeneration treatments such as prolotherapy and platelet rich plasma (PRP) for musculoskeletal conditions. Prolozone should always be considered as a treatment to address pain rather than alternatives like medications, steroid injections, and surgery which can cause adverse effects in the long term. |
Results to Expect With Prolozone
The response to treatment varies from individual to individual and depends upon one’s healing ability and severity of injury. Some people need only one or two treatments, while others may need six or more. The injection process is repeated every 2-4 weeks until maximum improvement is noted. It may take more injections in those that have had severe pain for many years. Each situation requires its own protocol but in our experience its very effective after third injection. Prolozone Therapy is a safe, natural and often permanent treatment. All the research indicates there are no side effects when properly implemented. |
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Most Common Problems remedied with Prolozone Therapy
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Prolozone Treatment for Joint Pain and Dysfunction
Prolozone is one of the Prolotherapy family of treatments for rebuilding ligaments, tendons and joint capsules. These areas of the body do not heal well without an outside stimulus. That is why, for example, people who have sustained a whiplash injury in an automobile accident or any other body injury are plagued with neck pain and headaches forever. Fascia tissue injuries even at early ages can cause degenerative conditions leading to arthritis or joint and back pain syndromes appearing later in life. 
Ligaments and tendons once they get injured or with age, if you over- stretch them, they won’t go back to their original length. This causes joint instability which leads to further wear and degenerative changes at an accelerated rate.
This is how people start developing knee pain and they are told that they are bone on bone and need a knee replacement. These maladies tend not to correct themselves so we must be proactive in their treatment or face a future of compounding pain and joint problems. |
How Prolozone Decreases Pain & Helps You Truly Heal
Injuries and prolonged wear and tear cause trauma that produces localized edema and inflammation, which results in a decrease in circulation and oxygen utilization. Decreased oxygen utilization also prevents the body’s stem and blast cells from effectively healing the damaged areas. It also results in increased localized acidosis which is associated with causing chronic pain. The greater the injury or wear and tear, the higher the likelihood this scenario will develop. Instead of decreasing oxygen utilization, we should be increasing it. Prolozone consists of healing nutrients and ozone that can be injected in and around ligaments, tendons, and cartilage where they attached to the bone. Prolozone works by improving oxygen utilization in a localized area of damaged connective tissue, allowing it to heal and restore to full function. The injected ozone mixture increases blood supply and flow of healing nutrients, giving tissues what they need to heal. More importantly, it also stimulates the deposition and activity of fibroblasts and chondroblasts. These cells synthesize the collagen and cartilage that the body needs to strengthen and tightens the injured tissues. This stabilizes the area and removes the pain by giving the tissues what they need to heal. As they heal, the circulation to the area is re-established and the treatment is complete. Unlike other treatments, Prolozone treats the underlying issue of what is causing pain, instead of just acting as a temporary band-aid fix. |
Advantage of Polozone over Steroid/Synvisc Injections
Prolozone is an injection procedure similar to any Joint injection but the nutrient solution is more complex and also incorporates ozone gas. The use of ozone has brought a whole new dimension to many aspects of healing the human body. There are many advantages to using the Prolozone technique for the treatment of musculo-skeletal pain, back pain and joint dysfunction.
Prolozone is an injection procedure similar to any Joint injection but the nutrient solution is more complex and also incorporates ozone gas. The use of ozone has brought a whole new dimension to many aspects of healing the human body. There are many advantages to using the Prolozone technique for the treatment of musculo-skeletal pain, back pain and joint dysfunction.
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Prolozone injection object is to stimulate and create a healing response in damaged tissues, that the body would otherwise ignore. This is a crucial distinction between Regenerative Joint Therapies and treatments like Cortisone and Synvisc injections that only reduce inflammation and pain temporarily. Their effect eventually wears off and you are left with the same degenerative problem that you started with. Most healing processes require initializing a degree of inflammation to trigger a response by the body to heal the affected area.
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Prolozone is an effective therapy for many types of musculoskeletal problems. This includes acute injuries, chronic injuries and pain from any source; severely degenerated joints, back pain, post surgeries, artificial joints, fractures, non-union fractures, pulled muscles and common everyday strain/sprains. These problems don’t heal well by themselves and won’t just go away with time. I encourage you to be proactive so that you can continue to live an active and vibrant lifestyle.
"Prolozone is my favorite of the regenerative therapies that we do in our office" - Dr. M. Ahmad
Dr. M. Ahmad
"I have done Prolotherapy and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) for years but my success with Prolozone and the benefit to my patients has made it my primary treatment for musculo-skeletal, back and joint pain. Prolozone is an injection procedure similar to Prolotherapy but the nutrient solution is more complex and also incorporates ozone gas. The use of ozone has brought a whole new dimension to many aspects of healing the human body. There are many advantages to using the Prolozone technique for the treatment of musculo-skeletal pain, back pain and joint dysfunction. Prolozone Injection the object is to stimulate and create a healing response in damaged tissues, that the body would otherwise ignore." - Dr. M. Ahmad
Prolozone + PRP injection enhanced by healing property of oxygen
PRP therapy (or platelet rich plasma therapy) uses injections of a concentration of a patient's own platelets to accelerate the healing of injured tendons, ligaments, muscles and joints. In this way, PRP injections use each individual patient's own healing system to improve musculoskeletal problems.
PRP injections is a new treatment method that relieves pain by promoting long lasting healing of musculoskeletal conditions. This rapidly emerging technique is showing exciting potential with osteoarthritis of the knee, shoulder, hip and spine, rotator cuff tears, chronic plantar fasciitis, anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, pelvic pain and instability, back and neck injuries, tennis elbow, ankle sprains, tendonitis, and ligament sprains. If Ozone (Oxygen) is added with them the result is more quick and it enhance the healing process.
PRP therapy (or platelet rich plasma therapy) uses injections of a concentration of a patient's own platelets to accelerate the healing of injured tendons, ligaments, muscles and joints. In this way, PRP injections use each individual patient's own healing system to improve musculoskeletal problems.
PRP injections is a new treatment method that relieves pain by promoting long lasting healing of musculoskeletal conditions. This rapidly emerging technique is showing exciting potential with osteoarthritis of the knee, shoulder, hip and spine, rotator cuff tears, chronic plantar fasciitis, anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, pelvic pain and instability, back and neck injuries, tennis elbow, ankle sprains, tendonitis, and ligament sprains. If Ozone (Oxygen) is added with them the result is more quick and it enhance the healing process.
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Spinal Stenosis/Disk Herniation
As many as 80% of adults in the U.S. suffer from lower back pain at some point in their lives, and for many, the cause is a herniated disc. The condition occurs when the spongy cushions, or discs, that serve as shock absorbers for the spine become inflamed and bulge or break open. A herniated disc of the lower spine can cause pain in the back, buttocks, and legs with numbness and weakness when bulging discs press against nearby nerves. |
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Uses of Ozone
Medical ozone therapy has four major effects on the body:
1. Medical Ozone can strengthen a person's immune system and help them fight off current infections (bacterial, viral, or fungal) and help prevent them from getting future infections.
2. Medical Ozone stimulates increased uptake and utilization of oxygen.
3. Medical Ozone can effect circulation by enhancing what is called the rheological properties of the blood. Rheological refers to the flow characteristics of blood as a liquid.
4. Medical Ozone can enhance the production of energy at the cell level known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
Medical ozone therapy has four major effects on the body:
1. Medical Ozone can strengthen a person's immune system and help them fight off current infections (bacterial, viral, or fungal) and help prevent them from getting future infections.
2. Medical Ozone stimulates increased uptake and utilization of oxygen.
3. Medical Ozone can effect circulation by enhancing what is called the rheological properties of the blood. Rheological refers to the flow characteristics of blood as a liquid.
4. Medical Ozone can enhance the production of energy at the cell level known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Prolozone uses increased oxygen utilization by the tissues and increased energy production by the mitochondria of the cells to create the healing response.
Prolozone treatments are much more patient friendly and cost effective than other treatments. Patients come in for treatment and then return to work right after their appointment. Ozone is a great anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory and can be used safely around areas of infection or damaged tissue. Prolozone therapy is especially effective in regenerating the cartilage in knees, ankles, shoulders, hips and other damaged joints. |
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Using Ozonated Saline Drip Systems
Intravenous (IV) ozone therapy seems to be most effective for people who are having chronic problems or systemic conditions. These include Chronic Fatigue, Viral Infections, autoimmune diseases, lyme disease and co-infections, cardiovascular conditions, and neurodegenerative diseases like Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, ALS, and Parkinson’s. These IV therapies appear to help in enhancing the detox process, help eradicate bacterial and viral infections, and activate the immune system, in addition it contributes to clean blood and oxidize plaque buildup on the arterial walls. |
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There are a few ways to administer ozone intravenously: DIV, major-autohemotherapy, and ozonated saline.
DIV is a direct injection of ozone gas into the vein. DIV is great for most, but not a lot of doctors offer it for their patients. Because of this it can be hard to find a physician who is able to provide that service for you.
Major-autohemotherapy involves pulling blood out, treating it with ozone, and returning it back to blood circulation.
The physician is required to use a blood thinner like heparin to thin the blood before it’s returned back to circulation, and that can be an issue for a lot of people. For that reason, not every patient is going to be ideal for this modality.
This is where the ozonated saline drip can be an ideal and effective form of IV ozone therapy because:
1. There is no need to add any blood thinner.
2. Ozonated saline is administered via Glass apparatus and there is no Plastic bag is involved to interact with Ozone.
DIV is a direct injection of ozone gas into the vein. DIV is great for most, but not a lot of doctors offer it for their patients. Because of this it can be hard to find a physician who is able to provide that service for you.
Major-autohemotherapy involves pulling blood out, treating it with ozone, and returning it back to blood circulation.
The physician is required to use a blood thinner like heparin to thin the blood before it’s returned back to circulation, and that can be an issue for a lot of people. For that reason, not every patient is going to be ideal for this modality.
This is where the ozonated saline drip can be an ideal and effective form of IV ozone therapy because:
1. There is no need to add any blood thinner.
2. Ozonated saline is administered via Glass apparatus and there is no Plastic bag is involved to interact with Ozone.
Myers Cocktail
Probably the most popular Intravenous IV Nutrition is the Myers Cocktail, named after Dr. John Myers, M.D. who used intravenous injections to treat his patients for a variety of health conditions. The Myers Cocktail IV is a mixture of B Vitamins, Vitamin C and minerals. Many acute and chronic health conditions that benefit from intravenous nutrition: blood pressure, fatigue, depression, mental clarity, asthma, migraines, infections, fibromyalgia, muscle spasm, chronic sinusitis, upper respiratory infections, seasonal allergic rhinitis, cardiovascular disease, and many other conditions.
Benefits of The Myers Cocktail include the following:
It is helpful with both acute and chronic problems, bypasses ineffective absorption in the gastrointestinal tract, enhances the healing process, promotes greater health, promotes greater ability to absorb nutrients, and promotes the use of nutrients orally.
Probably the most popular Intravenous IV Nutrition is the Myers Cocktail, named after Dr. John Myers, M.D. who used intravenous injections to treat his patients for a variety of health conditions. The Myers Cocktail IV is a mixture of B Vitamins, Vitamin C and minerals. Many acute and chronic health conditions that benefit from intravenous nutrition: blood pressure, fatigue, depression, mental clarity, asthma, migraines, infections, fibromyalgia, muscle spasm, chronic sinusitis, upper respiratory infections, seasonal allergic rhinitis, cardiovascular disease, and many other conditions.
Benefits of The Myers Cocktail include the following:
It is helpful with both acute and chronic problems, bypasses ineffective absorption in the gastrointestinal tract, enhances the healing process, promotes greater health, promotes greater ability to absorb nutrients, and promotes the use of nutrients orally.