Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) treatment, a blood plasma injection with the patient's own blood, is being considered a new alternative to knee surgery for senior citizens who take longer to recover from operations. Doctors said PRP injections deliver a high concentration of growth factors to arthritic cartilage which can potentially enhance healing. PRP, unlike the synthetic injections, is a biological injection which is produced from patient's own blood. It's a simple process where we take patient's blood, and spin it down, concentrate the platelets, and inject it back into their knee with their own platelets in a concentrated form.
This activates growth factors and stem cells to help repair the tissue, decrease inflammation and thereby reducing the osteoarthritic symptoms. According to doctors, the entire process takes only 2-3 hours and does not require hospital admission. PRP injection…
