Does Medicare Cover Prolotherapy?
Prolotherapy, or proliferation therapy, is a treatment in which an irritant solution is injected into a joint, ligament, or tendon to alleviate pain. As of now, prolotherapy is still considered to be an alternative medicine therapy that hasn’t been recognized by the FDA or other American medical institutions as a safe and effective medical treatment. The idea of prolotherapy, which is thousands of years old, is that the injections promote self-repair of the injured body part. The two most common types of irritant solutions used…