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

MCL Injury Treatment: Introducing PRP Injections

9 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter (speaker) describes his personal MCL tear (occurred in November) and his plan to receive a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection into his left knee. He explains reasons for choosing PRP: potent anti-inflammatory effects, support for soft-tissue remodeling, and potential to heal some intra-articular injury. The clip frames PRP as one of several biologic options with adjustable settings and cell counts to target inflammation, tissue damage, or augment healing.

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Left knee.

In November.

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection into the knee joint.

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All right, everybody. So here we are. I told you. I'm going to get a PRP injector for my left knee. I tore my MCL in November. And if anybody's had an MCL injury, they know it's painful and it's a long process and it can take several months to get better. There's a lot of variation in what we can do with our biologics treatments. We can aim at just treating inflammation. We could treat inflammation and tissue damage. We could augment healing. There's a lot of ways that we can adjust the settings and the cell counts apotheomize healing. And so for me, for my knee, we're going to do just platelet rich plasma into my knee joint. We're doing that because it's a very potent anti inflammatory, also helps the soft tissues to remodel, and can heal some intranticular injury.