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"You want to do what to my horse? Oh, I don't believe in joint injections. My grand prix jumper competed until he was 23-years-old and never needed his joints injected." I'll go ahead and say it. Although I shouldn't judge, my mind starts going in all directions at such a bold statement. I can't help but think, that horse must have been a freak of nature to have felt that good for so long at such an upper level of competition. Or... I wonder how lame that horse was while it was competing at age 23? Or... She must of had great success with other less invasive treatments.. Or... So the horse wasn't injected, but how many pain medications did it receive at the shows? I listen to something along these lines almost every day. I am an equine veterinarian that focuses in sports medicine. This controversial topic is not an easy nor a simple discussion with my clients. So, are they good or bad? If you are an equine competitor, no doubt you have had a horse injected...

Prolotherapy is a treatment that offers hope to those who feel they've tried everything to relieve back pain. If you suffer from sciatica, sacroiliac joint dysfunction or lumbosacral joint pain, you may be helped by prolotherapy. Joint pain is often caused by damage to the ligaments that support the joint. Ligaments are connective tissues that band bone to bone in a joint, providing for strength and structural integrity. If a ligament is strained, torn or otherwise injured, its healing time will be slow and it will become weak. This is due to the fact that ligaments receive a very low blood supply. The same is true for tendons, which band muscles to bones. If the ligaments that support spinal joints or the sacroiliac joint grow weak, they fail to support the joint. This results in abnormal range of motion. In the sacroiliac joint, this results in pelvic instability, localized and referred pain, and sometimes sciatica. In the spine, hypermobile joints can lead to disc herniation, wh...