{"id":9111,"date":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-osteoarthritis-sugar-injections-for-knee-pain\/"},"modified":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:00:00","slug":"condition-osteoarthritis-sugar-injections-for-knee-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-osteoarthritis-sugar-injections-for-knee-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Sugar Injections Really Ease Knee Pain?"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you suffer from chronic knee pain, you may have tried anti-inflammatory medicines, physical therapy, or cortisone shots to provide some relief. Now, a new scientific review lends support to a lesser-known remedy that may work when others don’t: prolotherapy, a technique that involves injecting a sugar solution into joints damaged by osteoarthritis or injury.<\/p>\n
Italian researchers who conducted the review say there’s only enough evidence to recommend the alternative remedy after traditional treatments haven’t helped. But proponents of prolotherapy say it’s safe, effective, and should be used more often than it currently is.<\/p>\n
The idea behind prolotherapy, says Thomas Bond, MD, president-elect of the American Association of Orthopaedic Medicine (AAOM), is that injecting an irritant near the site of torn or stretched connective tissue will stimulate the body’s immune system and speed up the healing process. That’s why sugar water works well, he adds: It has a higher osmotic pressure than other fluids in the body, so it sucks water out of nearby cells—essentially causing local damage and jump-starting the body’s inflammatory response.<\/p>\n
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