What Is AROmotion Treatment?

Every joint in your body has sensory nerves that tell you when the joint is injured. These nerves send pain signals to your brain. AROmotion combines an FDA approved procedure called radiofrequency neurotomy to disrupt these sensory nerves and stop the pain inside of the joint.

What most people and doctors do not realize is that these painful sensory nerves release neuropeptides like Substance P triggering a host of inflammatory proteins (cytokines) that amplify and worsen the arthritic pain and its destruction. By disrupting the nerve signal, we diminish both the arthritis pain and the release of those inflammatory proteins that are destroying your joint.

Disrupting the pain signal reduces the negative inflammatory factors, but equally important to AROmotion is the introduction of positive factors. Now, this healthier, more normalized joint microenvironment can better support the orthobiologic used to complement your own natural healing factors. These include live cells, hyaluronic acid, peptides and healing factors. This combination tips the scale towards an environment of nurturing growth and healing, restoring joint function by supporting your body’s own natural healing process of proliferating chondrocytes (new cartilage) while supporting and lubricating the joint fluid and capsule.

Your joints are designed to move a certain way in order to stay balanced. Pain, stiffness, and weakness that occurs as a result of degenerative arthritis may prevent you from being able to flex and extend normally. After years of functional muscle imbalance compensating for painful joint motion, we develop muscle atrophy as well as muscle contractures, which leads to a downward cycle of further pain and immobility.

Once radiofrequency neurotomy has relieved the pain, your joint will want to revert to its natural motion. This is why our Board Certified, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians design a custom reconditioning program that will help you stretch and strengthen the muscles and ligaments supporting your return to normal joint motion.

Tipping the scales of healing inside of the joint takes time to produce noticeable effects, but by mitigating the pain you are able to move normally again and as soon as a week after the AROmotion procedure you can start your reconditioning program! The stronger and more flexible you get the faster and more completely your joint will heal.