Your First Prolotherapy Appointment

This is where to start if you are considering having prolotherapy performed by Dr Chad Edwards at Revolution Health & Wellness Clinic in Tulsa, OK.

Your first step is to register as a New Patient. If you only want/need prolotherapy then you will not need a Membership and you can disregard this requirement for becoming a patient. Follow the remainder of the instructions for becoming a new patient and be sure to fill out all of the required forms. 

We cannot determine if prolotherapy is right for you until you have been examined and we are able to review your history.

Prolotherapy Instructions:

Before your procedure:

1. Complete the patient portal information online to include your medical history, surgeries, allergies, medications
2. Wear comfortable clothing that will facilitate the required exam. Wear shorts for anything from the waist down. It may be beneficial for women to wear sports bras if they have a complaint above the waist.
3. Do not take any anti-inflammatory medications (motrin, ibuprofen, aleve, naprosyn, celebrex, etc) for 3 days prior to your procedure or any after your procedure if possible. It is not a problem if you have, it just may decrease the effectiveness.
   

Be sure to watch this Pre-procedure Video that will describe the prolotherapy process. 

After your procedure:

1. Ensure you are active and moving after your appointment. This increases the circulation and can help the healing.
2. Do not do painful or other activities that you know will strain the ligaments/tendons. These areas are weak and need time to strengthen.
3. Exercise: 30 minutes per day of modest exercise (resulting in light sweating) will optimize the function of the maintenance healing system. We do not exercise-restrict during treatment in the vast majority of cases. You may want to decrease the intensity & duration until you know how it will affect you.
4. Weight training: If you are training consistently and we are treating a damaged structure, you should drop to about 40% of your usual weight and go up on the reps when using this structure. As the pain resolves at one weight during treatment, slowly increase, keeping below the pain threshold. Once you are at full resistance, pain free, you will be released from treatment.
5. Our preference is for heat to be applied to the affected area but some patients do benefit from ice on a short term basis only (within 48 hours).
6. We recommend some peptides for additional healing. These are available for pick-up in the clinic at the time of your procedure:
   1. BPC-157
   2. TB-500
      1. We have a 'stack' of BPC-157 + TB-500 together as well
   3. GHK-Cu
   4. GLOW - this is a combination of all 3 of the above
7. Avoid anti-inflammatory medications as much as possible for at least 4 weeks after your procedure. These medications inhibit the healing process that prolotherapy is trying to stimulate.
8. Send us a Portal Message if you have any concerns or issues.

Most patients tolerate the procedure very well but you may have some discomfort. Some patients have significant soreness afterward prolotherapy. This can last for several days but typically lasts from 2-5 days. You may also have some bruising from the injections. The ‘recovery’ is a process that lasts weeks while the tissues are healing and getting stronger. You will likely have a fluctuating course of improvement where you have good days and bad days but this will get better and better over time.