Other Injection Therapies:
trigger points, scar adhesions and nerve pain
Painful muscle knots?
Scar tissue that is uncomfortable and causing numbness, pain or pulling?
You may be a candidate for injection therapies, offered by Dr. A. Eloise Cortal.
Dr. Cortal has the distinguished position of offering a wide variety of injection therapies to her patients, including prolotherapy and Platelet Therapy, as well as trigger point injections, therapeutic scar injections and more.
If you have experienced temporary relief from hands-on treatments in the past, you may see longer-lasting benefit from injection therapeutics- which can often get deeper, to the true source of your injury and stimulate a longer-lasting healing and thus benefit.
In a nutshell, what injection therapies are all about is pressing a giant RESET button in our body, telling it to start the healing process all over again and stimulating all the same natural properties we normally experienced after wound healing. Our goal here is less pain, improved tissue strength and renewed vitality of muscles, ligaments and tendons.
Could you use a little more strength and vitality and less pain? Call for an appointment to see if you are a good match for these services.
Getting ready for a day full of regenerative injection treatments.
Regenerative Injection Techniques:
Prolotherapy and PRP
Regenerative injection therapies offered by Dr. Cortal primarily consist of prolotherapy and Platelet-rich Plasma Injections. She discusses both with patients (if they are potentially candidates for both) and talks over why one might be more preferable versus the other for your unique situation, history and goals.
All of these therapies have been used for decades to stimulate the repair and healing of all the types of tissue found in the body (skin, muscle, ligament, tendon, bone, joint capsule, etc.), seeking to naturally heal even the most stubborn, long-standing of physical conditions.
All have extensive research behind them and are the most cutting-edge technologies offered for conditions that may otherwise have poor surgical outcomes (often helping to avoid surgery entirely), or where only a life-long prescription of pain killers is the only conventional treatment offered.
To read more in-depth on these two specialties of Dr. Cortal, see this page.
A really great 12 page overview of RIT by Dr. Michael Brown can be found here.
And here is a very comprehensive (and long) overview of PRP: the whys, whens, hows and current research from a highly esteemed profession in the field of Regenerative Injection Therapy.
All of these therapies have been used for decades to stimulate the repair and healing of all the types of tissue found in the body (skin, muscle, ligament, tendon, bone, joint capsule, etc.), seeking to naturally heal even the most stubborn, long-standing of physical conditions.
All have extensive research behind them and are the most cutting-edge technologies offered for conditions that may otherwise have poor surgical outcomes (often helping to avoid surgery entirely), or where only a life-long prescription of pain killers is the only conventional treatment offered.
To read more in-depth on these two specialties of Dr. Cortal, see this page.
A really great 12 page overview of RIT by Dr. Michael Brown can be found here.
And here is a very comprehensive (and long) overview of PRP: the whys, whens, hows and current research from a highly esteemed profession in the field of Regenerative Injection Therapy.
Insurance coverage and injection therapies
The one major caveat here is that only you are given all the details on your insurance plan coverage, so there is no way of our office to know the specifics of your unique insurance plan and what it will and won't cover.
Trigger point therapy is often covered by insurance. Scar injections (for reducing the severity of symptomatic scar tissue) and nerve injection therapies may also be covered by insurance. A good rule is that if the injections mentioned above are treating something symptomatic (like pain, numbness, tingling, loss of sensation or nervy symptoms) then insurance coverage is more likely than if it is just an unattractive scar or other reasons that the insurance company may deem "aesthetic".
The unfortunate exception to this is prolotherapy and PRP; we are not able to bill these procedures directly to patients' insurance plans. Patients can still request an itemized invoice of our services, which they can submit to their plans and see if they get any reimbursement.
Even though the actual injection service may not be covered by your insurance, the initial evaluation, office visit the day of and re-evaluation after your injection appointments will still be covered the same as any Naturopathic office visit.
Trigger point therapy is often covered by insurance. Scar injections (for reducing the severity of symptomatic scar tissue) and nerve injection therapies may also be covered by insurance. A good rule is that if the injections mentioned above are treating something symptomatic (like pain, numbness, tingling, loss of sensation or nervy symptoms) then insurance coverage is more likely than if it is just an unattractive scar or other reasons that the insurance company may deem "aesthetic".
The unfortunate exception to this is prolotherapy and PRP; we are not able to bill these procedures directly to patients' insurance plans. Patients can still request an itemized invoice of our services, which they can submit to their plans and see if they get any reimbursement.
Even though the actual injection service may not be covered by your insurance, the initial evaluation, office visit the day of and re-evaluation after your injection appointments will still be covered the same as any Naturopathic office visit.