Sports Injuries

Are you struggling to recover from a sports injury and get back on your feet? Jené Ferrante, ND, and the team at Hawaii Natural Medicine offer innovative care for sports injuries to patients aged 20 and older in Honolulu, Hawaii. IV therapy, along with regenerative medicine treatments like shockwave therapy, prolotherapy, and PRP injections, can jumpstart your body’s natural healing process and restore your overall health. To learn more, call the friendly staff today or reach out online.

Can treatment help my sports injury?

With any sports injury, the team aims to get you back to your sport quickly and restore your pre-injury abilities. 

The team can treat: 

• Ligament and muscle injuries 
• Pulled hamstrings
• Joint injuries 
• Golfer’s elbow 
• Tennis elbow
• Chronic tendonitis
• Partial tendon tears
• Sprained knees 
• Damage to knee cartilage
• Joint pain from an acute injury
• Chronic degenerative joint disease

Depending on the type and severity of your injury, the team may recommend regenerative therapy combined with traditional treatments like rest, bracing, taping, and physical therapy. 

What are the benefits of regenerative medicine for sports injuries?

Benefits of regenerative medicine for injuries include:

• Amplification of your body’s natural healing abilities 
• Encouraged growth of new tendons, ligaments, or cartilage tissue
• Lowered risk of adverse reactions
• Virtually painless procedures
• No surgery or scars
• No drugs and their side effects 
• Quicker recovery periods

The team at Hawaii Natural Medicine is passionate about treating more than just your symptoms and injury and aims to restore and improve your overall health permanently. 

What are treatments for sports injuries? 

The team may recommend a combination of treatments. 

Shockwave therapy 

If you’ve sustained an injury to a tendon, elbow, or hamstring, high-energy and low-energy shockwave treatments can help you heal by sending pulses of energy to the injured area. 

Shockwave therapy can increase circulation around injured soft tissues, stimulate cells that generate new tissue, and reduce pain by overstimulating nerve endings in the injured area. 

PRP injections 

Blood is mainly a liquid called plasma, but it also contains platelets — crucial in clotting blood and healing injuries. 

During a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection, your provider draws your blood, then separates your blood’s platelets from the other cells and increases their concentration. 

They then inject this higher concentration of platelets into the injured site. This process aims to speed up recovery time. 

Prolotherapy 

During prolotherapy, your provider injects a sugar or saline substance into your injured joint or muscle. Your body recognizes this as an irritant, creating inflammation that causes your body to send immune cells and chemicals to the area. 

This additional inflammation can promote your body’s natural healing process. 

IV therapy 

An IV drip can include helpful vitamins, minerals, electrolytes, and antioxidants that improve dehydration, inflammation, immunity levels, and fatigue during recovery. 

To learn more about treatments for sports injuries, call Hawaii Natural Medicine today or schedule a consultation online.