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Prolotherapy works great for osteochondritis dissecans, it just works spectacular. Basically, osteochondritis just means that the young athlete has a part of the cartilage breaking off. It typically occurs in young folks, like pitchers, in the elbow or any young athlete like a teenager who is doing allot of sports, especially running sports like basket ball, tennis, and gymnastics. They will often get osteochondritis in their knee. The typical treatment for that would be the athlete would be encouraged to rest and really all that happens is they might lose the whole season. Whereas the athletes who come here to Caring Medical in Oak Park, Illinois, I will do aggressive Prolotherapy and often the athlete is back months before they would have been with just standard rest and physical therapy. So Prolotherapy, by stimulating the healing of the osteochondral defect, gets the athlete back much quicker. I did report in the Journal of Prolotherapythat Prolotherapy works spectacular and there were improvements of the MRI and everything with Prolotherapy.