Sharon Fletcher, 71, had severe knee pain that dropped from 9 out of 10 to zero after PRP injection and laser therapy at Pinnacle. She ditched her cane and went back to normal life within weeks.
All right.
I have here today with us, the next in our successes, Ms. Sharon Fletcher. Thank you for coming in and agreeing to talk to me today. I appreciate you very much. Ms. Sharon, if you are comfortable with giving your age for us. I'm 71 years young and she is extremely active.
Yes, yeah.
To say the least.
To say the least.
To say the least. So just we, and we just to let everybody know, we have begun our gold program with you where we've done a PRP injection on your knee and we're about how far out are we from that PRP injection?
I am on my sixth laser today.
Okay. So just a couple of weeks after the PRP injection. I think it was in January, correct? Right? Yeah. So maybe four weeks.
Yeah, four weeks. Because this would be my sixth laser and I took the prp, I think the week before.
Well, the only thing it was I just got out of my chair one Saturday night to get up to go to bed and my knee went and that was it.
And we couldn't do anything after that. A lot of pain.
That was a lot of pain. The initial like, oh my gosh, what in the world just happened? I used a cane and a walker until I came to see you.
And we don't have a cane or.
Walker in the morning. I got rid of it a long time several weeks ago.
Fantastic.
And from that initial pain and then starting everything thing, I've been doing great.
Well, it was a no brainer because I have seen you for my right shoulder and have had wonderful success, great success with that. This is a no brainer.
Really. Not knowing really what to expect, but to weigh in pros and cons of surgery. At my age, being a widow, you live alone, all the things and a very independent person and just weighing the pros and cons. And I thought, hey, just give it a try.
Yeah, absolutely.
I do have a high tolerance to pain, but the injection to the knee, it was pretty traumatic.
Yeah.
But you know, part of the course.
And we're always working on making that better and we're always, we're constantly working to improve our techniques for injection. And I think especially with our experience with you, we've made some changes. And I'm going to say that our next injection, we're going to do another video after that one and I want, want to hear that less traumatic. We want to make that less dramatic.
That was the only thing. And then, I mean, it just lasted for, you know, just a few minutes and that was it. And been doing the lasers. Lasers don't bother Me a bit.
Fantastic. And what kind of downtime did you have after your procedure? Were you able to walk out of the office?
Oh, yes.
Okay.
Oh, yes.
When did you return to your normal activities?
Immediately, because that's just. That's just the way I am.
Absolutely. So we don't want to hold you down.
No.
And certainly didn't have any pain that held you back.
Oh, no, no pain. No pain.
I'm going to say probably at least just a day or two.
So just within a couple of days.
Within a couple of days.
And you started out with us and your pain was a nine out of ten. What is it today?
Zero.
Fantastic. That's amazing.
And it's been zero for several weeks.
Just being able to walk without pain and not have to be as cautious as to how I was walking, what I was doing, how I was turning.
I would say, give it a try. And I do. I do tell people that. I ask them, well, what is wrong with you? You know, what. What are you doing? And I tell them about you. And I said, you know, I've had the shoulder. No pain, all gain is my motto.
That's right.
No pain, all gain is my motto. And I. I do spread it about Pinnacle.
Well, thank you so very much. Do you have anything else that you want to say to our. To our. Our public?
Well, it's just, you know, if you are in pain of anything, you know, come and talk and visit. It doesn't hurt to see what your choices are. Then you weigh the pros and cons 100%.
And that's our goal, is to give people more choices than they would normally have. Right. That's our goal here.
Right.
Well, thank you so much.
You're so welcome.
I am so excited to see your progress. And we'll. We'll have some updates on her progress as we go. Thank you.
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