Prolotherapy in Philadelphia
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Prolotherapy: A Natural Solution for Pain and Healing at Meeting Point Health
Prolotherapy is a cutting-edge, nonsurgical treatment that harnesses your body’s natural ability to heal. By stimulating tissue repair and strengthening weakened joints, tendons, and ligaments, prolotherapy provides long-lasting relief from chronic pain and injuries. At Meeting Point Health, Dr. Stephen Matta specializes in this innovative regenerative therapy, creating personalized treatment plans to help you restore function, reduce pain, and regain your active lifestyle—without the need for surgery or long-term reliance on medications. Discover how prolotherapy can transform your recovery journey.
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How does Prolotherapy work?
Your body already has the innate ability to heal itself. Prolotherapy enhances this natural process by using dextrose, a well-researched, easily-absorbed sugar molecule, to trigger a controlled, localized inflammatory response. This response increases blood flow and activates growth factors at the injury site, stimulating collagen production and tissue repair. As your cells go to work, they recruit platelets, stem cells, and additional growth factors to promote fresh collagen formation. The result? Improved range of motion, stronger tissues, and reduced pain—helping you get back to feeling your best.
Dr. Matta will first obtain your history and perform diagnostics with ultrasound imaging, orthopedic testing and osteopathic palpation to best understand the nature and location of the injury. After diagnosing the specific area of treatment, Dr. Matta will inject the area with a local anesthetic to ensure a comfortable procedure. The prolotherapy mixture is then injected under ultrasound-guidance to ensure precision. Your body automatically begins to regenerate by sending growth factors, platelets and stem cells to the area to repair and rebuild the damaged tissues.
What are the benefits of Prolotherapy?
At Meeting Point Health, Prolotherapy is often used alongside other therapies to enhance recovery. When Prolotherapy is combined with additional treatments, patients frequently experience significant pain reduction in the affected tissues. Prolotherapy at Meeting Point Health offers a range of benefits for individuals seeking natural, surgical alternative solutions to pain and tissue repair. Key benefits include:
What can Prolotherapy treat?
Chronic Joint Pain: Alleviates pain in the knees, hips, shoulders, and other joints by repairing damaged tissues and improving stability.
Osteoarthritis: Helps rebuild cartilage and reduce inflammation, providing relief from joint stiffness and discomfort.
Tendon and Ligament Injuries: Strengthens weakened tendons and ligaments, such as those in the rotator cuff, Achilles tendon, or wrist.
Back and Neck Pain: Treats conditions like sacroiliac (SI) joint dysfunction, herniated discs, or facet joint syndrome by stabilizing and repairing the supporting structures.
Sports Injuries: Assists in the recovery of sprains, strains, and overuse injuries, such as tennis elbow or runner’s knee.
Whiplash and Soft Tissue Injuries: Promotes healing in soft tissues damaged by trauma, like those caused by car accidents.
Chronic Pain Syndromes: Addresses unresolved pain by repairing the underlying tissue damage contributing to long-term discomfort.
Plantar Fasciitis: Reduces inflammation and repairs tissue in the foot for improved mobility and pain relief.
TMJ Disorders: Stabilizes and strengthens the temporomandibular joint to alleviate jaw pain and dysfunction.
Pelvic Pain and Instability: Helps strengthen the ligaments and tissues in the pelvic region, offering relief from pain and improving function.
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What should you expect during prolotherapy?
Before therapy begins, Meeting Point Health will discuss the risks and benefits and request medical consent. During the procedure, the injection site is given a local anesthetic, usually lidocaine. After this, the prolotherapy is administered via injection into the damaged tissue.
Generally, the injection site will be sore for a few days following the procedure. It is important that you do not take anti-inflammatory medications during the week after the procedure, as this will negate the procedure’s effects. Use ice to treat pain and discomfort.
Does Meeting Point Health accept insurance for back pain treatment?
Meeting Point Health does not accept insurance.
Our practitioners and staff fully understand and empathize with the challenges that patients face as they make financial decisions for proper health care. Our practice is very different from a conventional medical practice in many ways, but the time spent with each patient is usually 30-90 minutes. Visits with a physician covered by insurance generally allow for less than 10 minutes in total! Conventional medical practices that take insurance maintain brief office visits and high patient loads for this reason. We cannot provide the expert care that every one of our patients deserves under those circumstances.
Insurance also dictates the types of treatments and order of treatments patients can receive for a particular condition.
Opting out of insurance allows the patient and the doctor to maintain their medical autonomy, which is imperative to ensure you get the right treatment at the right time and the right dose.
What are side effects from prolotherapy
Think of prolotherapy as the opposite of a cortisone shot. With a cortisone injection you have immediate pain relief, your immune response is completely stunted, your joint degenerates at a faster pace, and your pain comes back with a vengeance a month or 2 later.
With prolotherapy, you will experience some soreness in the first few days as the body begins to regenerate. Pain relief begins in about one week and the maximum treatment effect results in several weeks as the body regenerates new cells and your joint regains stability and strength.
How much does prolotherapy cost?
Prolotherapy starts at $750 per session.
Does Meeting Point Health accept insurance for back pain treatment?
Meeting Point Health does not accept insurance.
Our practitioners and staff fully understand and empathize with the challenges that patients face as they make financial decisions for proper health care. Our practice is very different from a conventional medical practice in many ways, but the time spent with each patient is usually 30-90 minutes. Visits with a physician covered by insurance generally allow for less than 10 minutes in total! Conventional medical practices that take insurance maintain brief office visits and high patient loads for this reason. We cannot provide the expert care that every one of our patients deserves under those circumstances.
Insurance also dictates the types of treatments and order of treatments patients can receive for a particular condition.
Opting out of insurance allows the patient and the doctor to maintain their medical autonomy, which is imperative to ensure you get the right treatment at the right time and the right dose.
Can I get an insurance reimbursement?
Good news! If you have out-of-network insurance benefits, you can submit your receipts for potential reimbursement. Depending on your plan, you may receive a percentage of the cost of your visit back either as a reimbursement check in the mail from the insurance company (or an equivalent amount applied to your out-of-network deductible, if applicable). Some plans reimburse up to 80%! All you have to do is ask the front desk for an insurance receipt after your visit.
How do I get started with Meeting Point Health?
To start your journey to relief, schedule a consultation with our team. During your initial visit, we’ll assess your medical history, perform a thorough evaluation, and develop a customized treatment plan to address your specific needs. Click to schedule a free discovery call with one of our Patient Onboarding Specialists today!
