Chronic back pain is one of the most common reasons Oakland County residents visit a doctor — and one of the most common reasons they end up being told surgery is their only remaining option. If you’ve heard those words, you know the weight of that conversation. Surgery is serious. The recovery is long. The outcome is not guaranteed. And yet, when the pain is bad enough and nothing else has worked, it can feel like you have no choice.
Many patients do have a choice. And a growing number of Oakland County residents are finding that Prolozone® Therapy — a precise, regenerative injection treatment offered by Dr. Steven Wiener, MD in Bloomfield Hills — provides the lasting relief that other treatments couldn’t deliver, without requiring surgery.
Why Chronic Back Pain Is So Hard to Treat
The spine is a complex structure, and back pain rarely has a single, simple cause. Most chronic cases involve some combination of disc degeneration, facet joint inflammation, ligament laxity, and muscle compensation patterns that develop over time. Treating only one element while ignoring the others is one reason so many patients cycle through treatments without resolution.
Oral medications reduce pain systemically but don’t reach the specific damaged tissue. Physical therapy strengthens muscles around the spine, but can’t repair the structural damage driving the pain. Steroid injections calm inflammation temporarily, but don’t heal the disc or joint generating it. Each of these has value in the right context — but none of them address the fundamental problem of damaged tissue that hasn’t repaired itself.
The Structural Problem Prolozone® Addresses
Chronic back pain almost always involves tissue — disc, ligament, cartilage, or connective tissue — that is damaged and stuck in a chronic inflammatory state. The reason it stays that way is often straightforward: those structures have poor blood supply, which means they receive insufficient oxygen and nutrients to complete the repair process. The body starts healing, reaches a plateau, and the tissue remains chronically irritated.
Prolozone® Therapy addresses this directly. The injection delivers medical-grade ozone into the damaged area, dramatically increasing oxygen utilization at the cellular level and restoring the conditions the tissue needs to actually heal. Combined with an anti-inflammatory nutrient formula, it creates the biological environment for genuine structural repair — not just pain suppression.
Conditions Treated
At Dr. Wiener’s Bloomfield Hills practice, Prolozone® Therapy is used to treat a wide range of back conditions that affect Oakland County patients, including:
- Herniated and bulging discs
- Degenerative disc disease
- Lumbar facet joint syndrome
- Chronic lower back and upper back pain
- Spinal stenosis (mild to moderate)
- Spondylosis and spinal arthritis
- Muscle and ligament tears
- Post-surgical residual back pain
Patients come from across the region — Troy, West Bloomfield, Birmingham, Rochester Hills, Farmington Hills, Pontiac, and beyond — many after being told by another provider that surgery was the next logical step.
What Makes This Practice Different
Dr. Wiener is board-certified in both Pain Management and Anesthesiology — a level of credentials uncommon in practices offering regenerative treatments. He completed his Pain Management Fellowship at The Cleveland Clinic and trained in Advanced Prolozone® Therapy directly under Dr. Frank Shallenberger, MD, the physician who developed the protocol.
Every patient receives a thorough diagnostic evaluation before any treatment is planned. Dr. Wiener doesn’t offer a one-size-fits-all approach — he identifies the specific structural source of your pain and determines whether Prolozone® is the right tool for your condition. If it isn’t, he’ll tell you.
The Treatment Experience
Each Prolozone® session is performed entirely in the office at our Bloomfield Hills location and takes approximately 15–20 minutes. There is no anesthesia required, no hospital stay, and minimal downtime — most patients return to normal activity the same day. Depending on the severity of the condition, most patients complete three to six sessions, with progressive improvement between each one.
If You’ve Been Told Surgery Is Your Only Option
Before making a decision about back surgery — particularly for disc, joint, or soft tissue conditions — it’s worth finding out whether a regenerative option like Prolozone® could provide the relief you’re looking for without the surgical risk, recovery time, or uncertainty of outcome.
Our practice serves patients throughout Oakland County from our Bloomfield Hills office at 359 Enterprise Ct. Call (248) 291-7223 to schedule a consultation and get an honest assessment of your options.
