Perineural Injection Therapy (PIT) can be an effective treatment for patients with inflamed and injured nerves. Chronic nerve pain is often due to trauma, arthritis, sports, overuse, occupational, and surgical injuries. In Dextrose base Prolotherapy the ligament and tendon attachments are being treated, in Perineural therapy, the nerves are being treated.
The number of injections that are given depend on various factors such as the number of different nerves inflamed, how much of the nerve is inflamed, and how long the nerve has been inflamed.