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WHAT IS PLATELET RICH PLASMA TREATMENT?

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Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy also referred to as PRP Therapy, is a progressive non-surgi cal treatment to treat a variety of conditions in cluding arthritis, tendon injuries, and ligament injuries. PRP is part of a group of state-of-the-art treat ments collectively re ferred to as Regenerative Medicine. PRP treats an injured area naturally using your body’s own growth factors to ac celerate healing. It has been shown to be safe and effective for numer ous joint and soft tissue injuries. It has been ex tensively researched in numerous medical jour nals and publications all over the world.

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Some of the many uses of Platelet Rich Plasma include osteoarthritis (degenerative arthritis) of the spine, knee, shoulder, hip, hands, and feet, as well as meniscus tears, plantar fasciitis, and rota tor cuff tears. The procedure is simple and is performed in the office. The PRP process begins when a small amount of the patient’s blood is removed from the arm and placed into a special container. The blood is then placed into a device called a cen trifuge which spins the blood to help the sepa rate the portion of the blood which becomes concentrated with platelets, thereby giving the procedure its name. These platelets are import ant because they release growth factors to recruit stem cells and to assist in healing an injured area naturally. Once the PRP is isolated, it is injected to the injured area under the guidance of an ul trasound machine to help accelerate healing and reduce pain. This healing works on the simple principle that your body is perfectly capable of healing it self. Your blood contains all the essential com ponents that the body produces to repair tissue

damage. Each time you have an injury, the plate lets in your blood along with growth factors, stem cells, cytokines, and other elements create a scaffolding on the site. The damaged tissues use this framework to regenerate and repair. The en tire process takes approximately one hour, and patients are sent home the same day. Patients on average report more than 50% improvement in 6 weeks and up to 100% improvement in 12 weeks. This may eliminate the need for more ag gressive and expensive treatment options such as long-term medication or surgery. In a recent study, researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery gave patients with early osteoarthritis an injec tion of PRP and then monitored them for one year. After one year of the PRP injection, physi cians evaluated the knee cartilage with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). While previous stud ies have shown that patients with osteoarthritis can lose roughly five percent of knee cartilage per year, the Hospital for Special Surgery inves tigators found that a large majority of patients in their study had no further cartilage loss. At minimum PRP also prevented further knee de terioration.

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