If you are one of the thousands of people who deal with chronic shoulder pain, you understand just how much it can hinder you from performing simple, everyday activities. Just like most joint pain, shoulder pain can be caused by multiple conditions or injuries such as arthritis, tendonitis, fibromyalgia, and injury due to playing sports or accidents.
As is with most chronic pain conditions, it is commonly advised for patients to begin a regime of prescription medications to help decrease the pain. For the more severe cases, surgery is often suggested as the most viable option. Unfortunately, neither of these choices actually address the source of where the pain comes from, which means they are largely less effective than most patients hope for.
Surgery is highly invasive and can leave patients vulnerable to a number of complications, including infection and blood clots, additionally requiring substantial downtime for recovery and physical therapy, while medications are accompanied by multiple side effects.
These less than desired outcomes have led more and more shoulder pain sufferers searching for a more natural and long-lasting approach to their treatment.
An increasing number of shoulder pain sufferers are looking for natural alternatives. Fortunately, science and technology have come a long way, providing patients with chronic shoulder pain an alternative that is safe and non-invasive.
Platelet-rich plasma(PRP) treatments can help relieve pain naturally and with long-lasting results while restoring range of motion. This can drastically improve quality of life with freedom from pain.
So how does PRP work?
The therapy actually uses your body’s own natural ability to heal itself, utilizing platelets and proteins in your own blood. It begins with a small blood; once the sample is drawn, it is spun through a centrifuge. This process separates the platelet-rich plasma from the rest of the sample, which creates a serum that is rich with growth factors and cytokines.
The serum is then injected into the area that is being treated for pain or injury, in this case, the shoulder. Due to the high concentration of healing properties, the body’s healing ability kicks in immediately. PRP injections can get to the source of the pain, reducing inflammation while increasing blood flow providing patients with effective and long-term pain relief.
PRP treatments have shown tremendous results providing a safe, natural, and non-invasive solution for those who have shoulder pain as a result of many conditions, including:
- Muscle or tendon strains
- Sprains
- Dislocated shoulder
- Frozen shoulder
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Tendonitis
- Bursitis
- Injury
- Degeneration
Regardless of the cause of your shoulder pain, it is not a condition that you simply must learn to live with, nor is it inevitable that you will need to undergo invasive surgical procedures or endure a lifetime of symptom masking medications. PRP injections can provide real relief from chronic pain.
If you are tired of suffering through each day with limited mobility due to chronic shoulder pain, find out more about how PRP can benefit you.