Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) therapy: platelets are cell fragments in blood that stop bleeding by clumping at injury sites and also release healing factors. In regenerative therapy, clinicians concentrate a patient’s platelets and inject them in and around injured joints to promote healing.
By obstructing the blood flow to that area, but they also release a lot of healing into that area.
And PRP is basically where we take your platelets, which is a fragment of a cell that's in your bloodstream. Those platelets help us stop bleeding. So when we injure an area, those platelets will go to that area and they clump up. And not only do they stop us bleeding by obstructing the blood flow to that area, but they also release a lot of healing into that area. And we use platelets in regenerative therapy. We concentrate them highly and then inject them in and around a joint.
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