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Are there certain vitamins i can take to help heal the ligaments in my knee?

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Are there certain vitamins i can take to help heal the ligaments in my knee?

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Ligaments take time to heal. You can take nutrients that are needed by the body to support growth of ligaments, but to really do the job the right way, you need to direct the nutrients to the area where ligaments need to be grown specifically. To do this, you need to use what athletes do and that is use sports medicine techniques. There is a technology called Prolotherapy. The practitioner injects dextrose into the area where the ligament is located with a very sharp, tiny needle almost the size of needle used in acupuncture. It causes very little pain. The dextrose causes the body to become inflamed. This inflammation is what the body uses to draw more nutrients to a site to increase healing speed. The omega 6 fatty acids that are essential which means that you must obtain these fatty acids by eating foods with these fatty acids in them. The omega 3 fatty acids removes the inflammation in an area. Once the ligament is healed, you won’t need the area to be inflamed, so the body uses th

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