Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains how orthobiologic treatments like bone marrow aspirate or high-dose PRP can reduce joint inflammation and relieve persistent knee pain after fracture surgery, especially arthritis under the kneecap.
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Hello, everyone. This is Dr. Schacher. And I just wanted to respond to one of our patient's questions. And the question kind of centered around the patient had had an injury, and they'd had a rod placed through their knee, which we commonly do for fractures of the thigh bone or the or the shin bone. And they've had some knee pain and problems in the knee ever since. And the question was, would orthobiologics work for me in this situation? And the answer is, absolutely anything that we can do to lessen the amount of inflammation in your joint is going to be effect, the less you can have some arthritis under your kneecap, in particular, from, from some of these procedures and the injury that you sustained. And so our orthobiologics, bone marrow aspirate procedures, or high dose PRP would be excellent options for you to achieve some excellent pain relief. So come on and see us.