Prolotherapy

A rewarding effective treatment for chronic musculoskeletal pain

At last – a real treatment, not just symptom relief.

Prolotherapy actually heals ligamentous strain using mild inflammation to trigger the healing cascade and generate new collagen. Now you can relieve:

Practical workshops are conducted regularly by Dr Margaret Taylor.

Go to Workshops to view the workshop calendar.

“This approach is safe, works well in appropriate patients, and should be part of the health care system of clinicians interested in comprehensive care of patients. It is also inexpensive.” Prof. Vert Mooney, Head of Orthopedics, University of California, San Diego

After several miserable years with intractable low back pain, I had complete relief through prolotherapy… this led me to practise it thereafter. With careful patient selection I had a better success rate than 80%”. C. Everett Koop MD, US Surgeon General, 1981-1989. (Letter to Dr Gurmit Dhillon)

“Injections into tender attachment sites for ligaments are a simple treatment that even GP's can perform... They can achieve complete relief of pain in 20% of patients and significantly reduce pain in 40%. These figures are no worse than those for the best alternatives, and better than most.” Prof Nik Bogduk, in his review: Management of chronic low back pain. MJA 2004; 180: 79-83