All You Need To Know About PRP Therapy

 

Platelet-rich plasma, popularly known as PRP, is a common substance that is responsible for promoting healing when injected. Plasma is an important component in the blood which contains special ‘factors’ or proteins that help your blood to clot. It also contains certain proteins that support cell growth. Researchers have also been able to produce PRP by isolating the plasma from blood and concentrating it.

PRP therapy in Saint Petersburg FL includes injecting PRP in the body’s damaged tissues helps to stimulate your body to grow new and healthy cells and in turn, promote healing. Because of the tissue growth factors being more concentrated in the prepared growth injections, researchers assume that the body’s tissues tend to heal faster.

Purpose of PRP injections
1.Hair Loss: Doctors often inject PRP into the scalp of patients in order to promote hair growth and further prevent hair loss. According to researches, PRP injections can be very effective in treating androgenic alopecia, also known as male pattern baldness.

2. Tendon Injuries: Tendons are tough. They are thick bands of tissue that connect the muscle to the bone. These are usually slow to even heal after an injury. Many doctors use the PRP injections to treat chronic tendon problems like tennis elbow, achilles tendonitis at the ankle and jumper’s knee or even pain in the patellar tendon in the knee.

3. Acute Injuries: PRP injections are also used to treat acute sports injuries such as pulled hamstring muscles or knee sprains.

4. Postsurgical Repair: PRP injections are used after surgery in order to repair a torn tendon (such as rotator cuff tendon in the shoulder) or ligaments (such as the anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL).

5. Osteoarthritis: Doctors also inject PRP into the knees of people with osteoarthritis. A study found out that PRP injections were even more effective than hyaluronic acid injections for treating osteoarthritis. However, this is more research that needs to be done in this regard. 

Another treatment known as clearwater intravenous nutrient therapy is becoming quite popular. Both of these need to have definite symptoms to perform the therapy on the patient.

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