Looking for a Prolotherapy Specialist in NYC?

Repetitive use injuries are common in athletes and physically active people. They arise over time from microtrauma to soft tissues when they are forcefully loaded again and again, without adequate time for recovery.

When overuse injuries cause chronic tendon damage (tendinopathy) or damage to the boney insertion sites of tendons and ligaments (enthesopathy) they can begin to degenerate, causing reduced performance, chronic pain, and physical dysfunction.

Prolotherapy is an evidence-based therapeutic treatment approach used to stimulate the healing of chronic soft tissue injuries and restore their functional capacity.

Top-Rated Prolotherapy Specialists in Manhattan

The clinic at NYDNRehab features the highest resolution ultrasound equipment available for diagnosis and treatment. In addition to rendering crisp and clear images of chronic soft tissue injuries, our equipment empowers us to test tendon elasticity via elastography, and to detect early signs of tissue healing via superb microvascular imaging (SMI). The use of ultrasound guidance for our injection therapies ensures that the patient receives the most accurate treatment, with minimal discomfort.

Accurate Diagnosis Means Superior Results

Chronic soft tissue injuries are often misdiagnosed, leading to inferior treatment approaches that waste time and cost money, while the tissues continue to deteriorate. At NYDNRehab, we know that the rehabilitation of chronic injuries takes time, and we believe that time should not be wasted.

We use the highest resolution diagnostic ultrasonography to visualize your injured tissues in real time, with the patient in motion. Ultrasound lets us zero in on the damaged tissues to identify their nature, severity, and scope. It also equips us with sonoelastography to distinguish tendinopathy from tendinitis, and superb microvascular imaging, to monitor the healing process.

Dr. Kalika’s expertise as a prolotherapy specialist in NYC has helped dozens of runners, athletes, and physically active New Yorkers to fully recover from chronic soft tissue injuries and return to their favorite physical activities.

Accurate Diagnosis Means Superior Results

How Does Prolotherapy Work?

Dense tissues like ligaments and tendons that have a high collagen fiber content and low vascularity are vulnerable to chronic overuse injuries because their limited blood flow stalls the recovery process.

Runners, athletes in jumping and cutting sports, swimmers, tennis players and weight lifters all experience overuse injuries from time to time. But when an injury goes untreated for too long, damaged tissues can degenerate, losing their functional properties of elasticity and tensile strength.

Prolotherapy is performed by injecting a neutral irritant solution into damaged tissues. The harmless solution is most often salt water, sugar water, or a phenol-glycerine-glucose blend (P2G). The injected solution works by irritating the tissue, and sparking the immune system to initiate tissue repair and regeneration.

Ultrasound Guidance is a Game-Changer

While prolotherapy is sometimes performed “blind” by delivering multiple injections to the general area of degeneration, ultrasound guidance ensures that the needle precisely hits its mark, successfully delivering the irritant while avoiding potential nerve damage.

Unlike Xray or MRI, ultrasound imaging takes place in real time. During the prolotherapy procedure, the patient becomes an active participant in their own treatment, able to provide verbal feedback and change positions as needed, to ensure spot-on results.

The accuracy of ultrasound guided needling therapies reduces the number of injections needed, and spares the patient from excessive discomfort.

Professional associations and memberships

Dr. Kalika is currently a certified member of:

American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine

Active member of ISMST

International Society of Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy

Active member of GCMAS

Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society

Active member of NASS

North American Spine Society

Active member of IADMS

International Association of Dance Medicine and Science

Active member of Virtual Rehabilitation Society

Active member of ASRA

American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

American Academy

Association of Orthopedic Medicine

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