Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains how PRP therapy works: blood is spun in a centrifuge to concentrate platelets about 10 times their normal level. He describes different PRP formulations and claims it reduces inflammation measurably through lab markers like ESR and CRP, with uses ranging from tendonitis to joint pain.
We highly concentrate them. And it seems like the magic is at 10x.
Platelet rich plasma. That's basically where we take your whole blood, a patient's whole blood. And it's a fantastic technique. So we take that blood, we spin it in a centrifuge to really concentrate the platelet. The platelet's the part of the blood, as you know, that helps us stop bleeding. Not only does a platelet help us stop bleeding, but it also has a lot of factors that it releases into that local tissue that enhances local tissue healing. It's a massive anti inflammatory. There's studies that show that PRP injected into a knee joint actually has an effect on the system. It has a systemic anti inflammatory effect. We can see it in a sed rate, we can see it in our crp. And so we take those platelets, we highly concentrate them and it seems like the magic is at 10x10 times what's in a normal platelets patient's blood volume. And then we can use different formulations. So we can use, we can leave the white blood cells in there if we're going to do one certain type of procedure, you know, that's really good for tendonitis, or we can take those white blood cells out and do leukocyte poor prp, which is really great for joint. And then we can also use the other products of platelets. We can do prf, there's other types of formulations. We can do platelet poor plasma ppp, which can be great for trigger point injections and muscular injections. There's just a lot of versatility in the use of that type of regenerative therapy, particularly in what I do, which is manage patients with joint pain.
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