PRP INYECTABLE
In recent years, doctors have learned that the body has the ability to heal itself. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy is a form of regenerative medicine that can harness these abilities and enhance the natural growth factors that the body uses to heal tissues.
What is plasma and what are platelets?
Plasma is the liquid part of whole blood. It is made up primarily of water and protein and provides a medium for the circulation of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets throughout the body.
Platelets, also called thrombocytes, are blood cells that cause blood clots and other functions necessary for scar growth Platelet activation plays a key role in the body's natural healing process.
What is platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and what are PRP injections?
Therapeutic plasma therapy (PRP) uses injections of the patient's own blood platelets to speed the healing of wounds, ligaments, muscles and joints. In this way, PRP injections use each patient's own healing system to improve musculoskeletal problems.
PRP injections are performed by taking one or multiple tubes of your own blood and passing it through a centrifuge to concentrate the platelets. These activated platelets are injected directly into injured or diseased body tissue. This releases growth factors that stimulate and increase the number of repair cells produced by your body.
Advantages of platelet-rich plasma
(PRP) Platelet Rich Plasma has been shown to markedly improve the healing process and the use of PRP injection for shoulder pain caused by rotator cuff tears, Achilles tendon tears and other soft tissue damage is increasingly common.
PRP has also been shown to improve function and relieve pain in people with chronic tendinitis or tendinosis such as Tennis or Golf Elbow relieves.
Some of the main benefits of PRP injections are that they can reduce the need for anti-inflammatory drugs or more effective drugs like opioids. Also, the side effects of PRP injections are very limited, as your body does not reject or react negatively because the injections are made with your own blood.
Examples of treatment areas where PRP has been used:
• Tissue healing: Doctors first used PRP to help people heal after jaw surgery and plastic surgery. Some examples of tissues in which PRP has been used are tendons, ligaments and muscles. Ligaments can be slow and difficult to heal, which may make PRP an attractive option for some who have sustained injuries to this group of tissues.
• Inflammation inhibitor: Doctors used PRP to reduce inflammation from osteoarthritis. This inflammation can make the joints painful and stiff.