You Don't Have to Live With Knee Pain

It is crucial to consider these hidden dangers before opting for conventional knee pain treatments.

Cortisone Injections

Made from superpower anti-inflammatory drugs, cortisone injections are used to help mask the painful symptoms of your knee injury. You can go 3–6 months without feeling your knee pain, but the injury doesn't go away. You just can't feel it. While that might sound like a good thing, it's frankly misleading.

Here's why:

• Cortisone injections mask pain and don't address the root cause of your pain. So, while you're walking around pain-free, your knee is still experiencing wear and tear. Once that injection wears off, you're going to feel the new pain and the side effects of cortisone. Moreover, cortisone injections do not promote healing or rehabilitation like regenerative medicine.
• Additionally, relying on cortisone injections as a long-term solution can lead to a cycle of dependency. Each time the pain returns, you may feel the need to get another injection, further delaying the necessary treatment.
• Corticosteroid injections can also weaken the surrounding muscles and tendons, increasing the risk of further injury.
• The trouble with cortisone injections is that they will block the "good" inflammation, which normally signals your brain to send out healing stem cells to treat the affected area. Inflammation is painful, which is why we recommend regenerative treatments that signal the healing of stem cells while also soothing painful inflammation.

All in all, it is essential to address the root cause of the pain and seek appropriate treatment to ensure long-term relief and prevent further damage, and cortisone does not do that.

Knee Replacement Surgery

Knee surgery is even more problematic, and while some find relief with knee surgery, it could have been avoided in most cases. The truth is, when undergoing invasive and painful knee surgery, there isn't a guarantee that you won't have to go through any other operations or that the pain will stay away. Knee replacements don't last forever. If you are in your 50s or younger and are considering a knee replacement, you should consider that it will need to be replaced in 10 to 15 years.

Physical Therapy

Physical therapy is an integral part of rehabilitation, but it may not address the underlying causes of knee pain on its own. Adminstrated by someone who isn't trained in treating chronic knee pain, it could also lead to overexertion and worsening of symptoms if not done correctly.

We Do Things Differently

At Vitality Integrative Wellness, we define success one patient at a time, but our goal is always the same: optimal health and wellness. Through an integrative approach and with the help of state-of-the-art technology and treatments, we help get our patients back to living full and active lives.

Regenerative Medicine

As a relatively new field in the US, regenerative medicine is frequently overlooked by doctors despite its promising effects. Regenerative medicine, has the potential to help you get back on your feet quickly by treating the cause, not masking the pain. When combined with rehabilitation, regenerative therapies offer a powerful solution to knee pain. We offer the best knee pain treatment in Temecula with and can provide multiple forms of regenerative medicine to help people living with chronic knee pain experience long-lasting relief, including:

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy: is a procedure that injects the patient's blood platelets into the knee joint to stimulate healing and reduce inflammation.

Prolotherapy: is a regenerative medicine that uses a solution of dextrose and other substances that are injected into the knee to help stimulate new tissue growth and reduce pain.

Tissue Allograft therapy: is a procedure that involves injecting umbilical cord-derived Wharton’s Jelly into the needed area. The injection encourages tissue regeneration.

Ozone therapy: is an innovative treatment that utilizes ozone gas to promote healing and alleviate pain. There are a few methods of administering O3, including injections to target specific areas of the body.

Prolotherapy therapy: is a vitamin-rich anti-inflammatory solution liquid injection of procaine, vitamins, and minerals into painful areas of the body followed by an injection of ozone. The therapy has been used for more than 40 years as an injection technique used to stimulate the body’s natural healing response.

Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic care can help treat the cause and help a knee that is healing. Pressure on nerves can cause pain and inflammation in almost every joint in the body. Chiropractic care can safely reduce nerve pressure so the body can heal faster. This helps reduce the need for drugs or painful cortisone injections.

We Dig Deep to Find The Right Approach to Your Treatment

Treating knee pain requires more than an one-size-fits-all all approach. With the help of your comprehensive intake consultation, we can determine which combination of these treatments will be most beneficial to you, to maximize the healing process while offering you sustainable, chronic knee pain relief.

Cold Laser Therapy

Cold Laser Therapy is sometimes known as “Class IIIb” laser therapy. It uses specific light wavelengths to penetrate damaged tissue and initiate the healing process. Our medical team can choose the exact depth that the laser will penetrate to target the root of your pain. When the laser comes in contact with the tissue, the body produces adenosine triphosphate- a compound our cells use for energy. This process stimulates the damaged cells, resulting in healing, reduced pain, and improved nerve function and vascular activity.