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A common question that I am asked is does the effect of Prolotherapy last. So, in other words, you have some knee arthritis, a little bit of knee arthritis. You get some Prolotherapy and now you are pain free. Patients ask “Doc, am I going to have to get booster treatments?” Well, typically the answer is “no” but, once the Prolotherapy healing stops in the joint, the joint will start to degenerate at the rate of the rest of your body right? Prolotherapy doesn’t eliminate the aging process. So the point is why don’t you age well? Normally, while you’re getting Prolotherapy, it is a good time to start getting healthy. You start eating right, taking some supplements, exercise. So, generally we just let folks know that you’ve just got to age well. So, if you age well, the pain typically won’t come back and you won’t need further Prolotherapy. But that’s dependent on you doing everything you need to do to age well, which is eating well, getting good sleep, taking some supplements, and regularly exercising. As a person ages, the very best exercise is exercise that has to do with range of motion. Because when you have good range of motion of your joints, it means that the body producing a lot of joint fluid. Only with motion do you produce joint fluid, for instance, in the shoulder. The joint fluid nourishes the cartilage and often you have to protect the cartilage as you age. Exercises such as bicycle riding, for the lower extremities, is non-pounding and has a lot to do with range of motion of the lower extremities. This also goes for swimming I am a very strong advocate of swimming because swimming you use all the joints. It is non-pounding and you  can do it the rest of your life. It doesn’t preclude running, or doing all the other activities. But really, as you age, most people are going to have to cross train a little bit. So, even if they don’t know how to swim, I leaned how to swim as an adult. I would just really encourage people to learn to swim. As long as they do those actives and maintain their range of motion, they typically won’t need Prolotherapy in the future.