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The Power of Platelets
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 the best and most possible 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 it good for?
Safe and effective
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
Prestige Technician in midst of PRP procedure
Things To Know
The fine print
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 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 somebody else (or somebody elses to you). Thus, there is no risk of acquiring an infectious disease from PRP therapy unless we do our job wrong and don’t use sterile techniques and equipment to prepare your PRP – we are very careful to do so and have never had a complication or infection after thousands of PRP injections!
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. A dose or two won’t be problematic, but repeated daily use will “short-circuit” the healing process. The same is true with corticosteroid medications such as cortisone, hydrocortisone, triamcinolone, and Kenalog.
Finally, 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.
PRP is not a panacea for all problems – a consultation with our providers may help you to determine whether or not PRP is right for you.
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