Platelet-enriched plasma treatment Inglewood uses the injection of a patient’s concentration of their platelets to stimulate the healing of wounded tendons, ligaments, muscles, and bones. Thus, PRP injections use each individual’s treatment system to enhance musculoskeletal problems.
PRP injections are prepared by moving anywhere from a tube of your blood through a centrifuge to concentrate the platelets. These activated platelets are then implanted directly into your damaged or diseased body tissue. It releases growth factors that stimulate and increase the number of repeating cells that are produced in your body.
Ultrasound imaging is sometimes used to direct injection. The photos below show a PRP injection into a patient’s torn tendon. Ultrasound guidance is shown on the left, and vaccination is shown on the right.
Whether the subject has a one-time injection or a series of injections over weeks or months, the individual patient and the doctor have it.
If a series of injections are planned, a doctor may recommend the same blood draw during the first visit and use the new PRP in the first injection and melt the remaining PRP as needed for future vaccinations. However, Dr. Bill Releford from the Releford foot and Ankle Institute believe that freezing and melting PRP negatively affects its usefulness and prefers to draw different blood for each PRP injection.
If the needle(s) is successful in diminishing the patient’s pain, the patient will possibly be prescribed physical treatment. Performing simple exercises to build and maintain muscle strength around the affected joint serves to reduce the symptoms of osteoarthritis and may slow or stop further joint degeneration.
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