About this site

Prolotherapy Portland is a plain-language guide to prolotherapy, ligament laxity and joint instability, written for people in the Portland, Oregon area — and particularly for the hypermobile ones, who tend to arrive here having already been told for years that nothing is wrong.

If that is you: the pain is real, the instability is measurable, and the reason your scans keep coming back clean is that ordinary imaging is not very good at showing a joint that only misbehaves when it moves. That is not a reassurance, it is just how the tests work.

How this site is put together

There is one kind of page here. It excerpts the opening passages of articles published by NW Regen, a Portland-area practice that treats a lot of hypermobile patients. Each excerpt is quoted, dated, attributed, and linked to the complete original so you can read all of it.

That is deliberately all it does. Nothing here stands in for the article it points at — the prolotherapy articles are a way of finding NW Regen's writing and then going and reading the whole of it at the source.

Being honest with you

Prolotherapy does not help everyone. The evidence for it is mixed and varies a lot by condition and by how it is done, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. It also is not a replacement for the strengthening and proprioceptive work that underpins managing a hypermobile body — it is something that can sit alongside that work, not instead of it.

This site cannot tell you whether you are a candidate, does not evaluate or recommend individual practitioners beyond pointing to one, publishes no success rates or patient stories, and does not quote prices. It is reading material, not care.

If you want to be seen

Readers looking for treatment are pointed to the prolotherapy program at NW Regen in the Portland metro area.

Everything here is educational only — not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Please talk with a licensed provider about your own health.