Regenerative Injections

Regenerative medicine is the branch of medicine dedicated to developing methods to regenerate, repair, or replace damaged cells, tissues, and organs. They typically target unhealed injuries around cartilage, joints, ligaments, tendons and muscles – being areas of limited blood supply, hindering the body’s natural healing instincts.

What are regenerative injections?

Regenerative injection therapy is the technique used to administer regenerative medicine. It refers to the process of injecting a solution into damaged tissue to trigger the body’s self-healing capabilities causing the generation of new tissue. It is used to treat chronic pain and musculoskeletal injuries. Some of the common injection areas are the neck, lower back, knee, shoulder, hip and ankle.

There are two types of regenerative injection therapies:

Prolotherapy or Proliferative Therapy: This targets the tendons, ligaments, and joints by injecting them with an inflammatory substance promoting the body’s natural healing process.
Platelet Rich Plasma Injection: This technique injects a biological concentrate of the patient’s own platelets, called a tissue graft. It is embedded onto the damaged tissue, and accelerates tissue regeneration.

What are some of the health benefits of regenerative injections?

Here at Minerva Clinic we use regenerative injections mainly to treat unhealed injuries, such as ligament injuries, ACL injuries, rotator cuff injuries, sciatica etc. Some other conditions we treat are:

Achilles tendonitis

Plantar fasciitis

Frozen shoulder

Golfer’s elbow and tennis elbow

Iliotibial band syndrome

Sciatica

Cervical neuralgia

Osteoarthritis etc.

Who is it for?

This treatment is beneficial for any person suffering from a musculoskeletal injury or chronic muscular and joint pain.

Other Therapies