Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains how platelet gel works: platelets deliver growth factors and proteins that heal tissue, and the gel concentrates this natural healing process at a specific joint to treat pain.
Platelet gel is a fantastic way to treat joint pain. The idea is that we want to take your body's potential to heal itself and we want to magnify it. We've all been healing our cuts since we were little. Every cut that you've ever had is healed. Basically what we want to do is we want to take your body's ability to heal those cuts and we want to magnify that and focus and direct it in one area. The part of the blood that we're looking for is the platelet. The platelet is a special fragment of a cell that contains all of the materials that we need to really heal tissue. So platelet goes to an area of injury and not only does it cause you to stop bleeding in that area, but it also has insulin like growth factors, it has human growth factor, it has proteins and hormones and substances that allow us to both remodel tissue and heal tissue in a very rapid fashion.
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