Dr. Joshua John-Ram SchacterDr. Joshua Schacter, DO FAAOS, is America’s Holistic Orthopedic Surgeon, with nearly two decades of surgical expertise.

Heal Your Injury with PRP - Platelet-Rich Plasma Regenerative Medicine

25 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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Short explainer (audio transcript) describing PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma) as a regenerative-medicine and orthopedic treatment: clinicians draw the patient’s blood, centrifuge it to concentrate platelets, then inject the platelet-rich component into injured tissue or joints under ultrasound guidance. The speaker claims the procedure is very safe, can work within days for some patients, may require multiple treatments, and that benefits can last longer than steroid injections—potentially up to two years.

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What exactly is prp? Well, PRP stands for Platelet Rich Plasma. This is a treatment in regenerative medicine and orthopedics where we take your own body's materials to treat your injury or pain. It's a very simple process where we take your blood. We then use our centrifuge to spin that blood down into the platelet components, which we then reinsert into the tissue or into the joint using ultrasound guidance. This is an extremely safe and effective process, and oftentimes patients will see results in just a few days due to the severity of some injuries or joint pain. Sometimes a couple of treatments are necessary. The science indicates that platelet gel injections can be effective for much longer than steroid or other types of injections, even up to two years after the treatment.