When vertebrae are fused together, the spine is less flexible than before. In more than one-half of the cases, pain is still present, and mobility also is compromised. Even they will tell you chances of a real cure are slim with surgery and nonexistent with medication. The doctor's job is to introduce the irritant solution into the places where ligaments are weak or damaged. This new supporting structure pulls the vertebrae back into close relationship with each other correcting instability and therefore putting an end to inflammation.
Stability is restored along with mobility.
That is the long and short of prolotherapy. Not only that, this treatment is relatively inexpensive. Hackett GS Ligament and tendon relaxation treated by prolotherapy, third addition 1958. Hackett GS Low back pain Indust Med and Surg Sept. 1959, pp.