A short video by Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter describing his personal MCL (medial collateral ligament) tear and his plan to treat the left knee with a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection. He explains PRP's roles — anti-inflammatory effects, soft-tissue remodeling, and potential to heal intraarticular injuries — and situates it among biologic treatment options.
All right, everybody. So here we are. I told you. I'm going to get a PRP injection 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 intraarticular injuries.
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