Joint Pain Relief with PRP
Initiate and accelerate the healing process in your joints and tissue
The Power of Platelets for Joint Pain Relief
Platelets in your blood stream are the body’s first step in the healing and regeneration process that follows injury.
Platelet Rich Plasma is a regenerative product made from your own blood. It is a highly concentrated dose of your own platelets created by centrifuging your own blood according to specific protocols. These platelets are then injected into the place of injury, signaling to the body to accelerate healing in that tissue. Platelets have been shown to contain hundreds of growth factors and cytokines which initiate and accelerate the healing process. Among them are:
- Platelet Derived Growth Factor (PDGF)
- Transforming Growth Factor Beta (TGF-Beta)
- Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF)
- Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1)
- Insulin-like Growth Factor 2 (IGF-2)
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF)
- Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF)
- Interleukin 8 (IL-8)
- Keratinocyte Growth Factor
- Connective Tissue Growth Factor
At Prestige Regenerative Medicine, we use the latest research and laboratory grade techniques to create optimal PRP from your blood. PRP has a 4-7x higher concentration of platelets than your blood stream. We treat it with an advanced photobiomodulation device using specific frequencies of light to increase the concentration of specific growth factors, and depending on the application we may “activate” the PRP prior to injecting it.
What is PRP Treatment good for?
PRP Treatment is safe and effective for joint pain relief and more.
PRP can be used for many purposes to initiate and accelerate the healing processes in your tissue. At Prestige Regenerative Medicine we use PRP in many ways including:
- Musculoskeletal purposes – We can inject arthritic or injured joints (proven superior to hyaluronic acid injections such as SymVisc), tendinitis, sprain, strains, ligamentous injuries and tears, plantar fasciitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, etc.
- Hair Restoration - If you're concerned about hair loss, PRP is a safe and effective way to reverse hair loss and stimulate new hair growth
- Sexual Regeneration and Enhancement (the P-Shot® and the O-Shot®) - Restores size and function in men, and rejuvenates sexual function and relieves urinary incontinence in women
- Can be combined with other biologic products (cellular allografts, amniotic membrane, exosomes) to enhance the effect
Things To Know About PRP Treatments
Because PRP depends on the healing power of your platelets, those with lower platelet counts will not have as pronounced an effect. This generally isn’t an issue unless you have extremely low platelet counts (a condition known as Thrombocytopenia).
Because PRP is made from your own blood, we cannot (and will not!) give your PRP to someone else (or someone else’s to you). Thus, there is no risk of acquiring an infectious disease from PRP therapy.
The class of drugs called Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDS) which includes ibuprofen, aspirin, Naprosyn, indomethacin, meloxicam, piroxicam, etc. can interfered with the healing process initiated by PRP so those drugs should be avoided for 1 week to your PRP therapy and 2-3 weeks after.
Finally, PRP is not a pain-killer. The healing effect that PRP induces takes time much like your body takes time to heal. Depending on your age and general state of health the healing process may take as long as 6-10 weeks for complete healing.
Because PRP is made from your own blood, we cannot (and will not!) give your PRP to someone else (or someone else’s to you). Thus, there is no risk of acquiring an infectious disease from PRP therapy.
PRP is not a pain-killer. Most of the time, PRP injections do not create immediate pain relief (although some of our patients report relief, particularly for very inflamed areas or “dry” joints, the next day). The healing effect that PRP induces takes time, much like your body takes time to heal. Depending on your age and general state of health, the healing process may take as long as 6-10 weeks for complete healing.
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