14 DAY TRIAL // Most doctors keep telling people that sugar is bad for one's health. Others believe it could help treat osteoarthritis, if it is injected into joints instead of eaten.
This innovative treatment for osteoarthritis is known to specialists as prolotherapy. It boils down to the doctors' injecting a sugary solution into whatever joints just won't quit aching.
Daily Mail explains that this solution is made from a type of sugar known as dextrose, and that once it is inside the human body, it causes mild irritation in the affected joint.
Specialists say that toying with an already stiff and painful joint in this manner stimulates the body's natural repair mechanisms.
More precisely, specialized cells move in to heal the irritation caused by the sugary solution and, while busy carrying out this task, they also relieve some of the pain brought about by osteoarthritis.
The same source informs us that experiments carried out with the help of several volunteers seem to support the idea that prolotherapy might help make life easier for osteoarthritis patients.
However, further research is needed.