What mixture is in the prolotherapy injection?
An anesthetic such as a 1% lidocaine is mixed with dextrose solution. The lidocaine numbs and causes instant relaxation of spasming muscle-it shuts down the spasming and tension loop. It, in effect, shuts down the “computer” and when the lidocaine is cleared out, the nervous system “reboots” and forgets the memory of the spasms. The dextrose is in a concentrated form that causes a mild form of controlled inflammation to signal for tissue repair. Dextrose is a sugar that is used as cellular nutrition; part of this signaling wakes up your own adjacent stems to come out to do tissue repair.
There are many uses of prolotherapy and powerful PRP in other parts of the body: joints for ligament and tendon repair; back and neck for herniated discs, spinal stenosis, Arnold Chiari; TMJs for clenching and grinding.