If you suffer from pain, it can interfere with your ability to enjoy life. It not only keeps you from doing the things you love but can also make even the most basic everyday tasks difficult. If you find you can’t make it through your day without the need for pain medications, you are only masking your symptoms instead of allowing your body to heal.
Seeking effective treatments for pain relief can be a challenge. However, PRP or platelet-rich plasma is a treatment that uses your own healing properties to repair damaged and degraded tissue.
It can help reduce pain making it an ideal treatment to address a wide range of challenges including:
- Knee pain
- Neck pain
- Neuropathy
- Bone issues
- Plantar fasciitis
- Damaged cartilage
- Joint pain
- Back pain
- Hip pain
- Sciatica
- Torn ligaments
- Elbow pain
- Shoulder pain
- Fibromyalgia
- And more
PRP is a safe, all-natural pain relief treatment that uses your own blood to create the platelet-rich plasma. The platelet-rich plasma injections are then used to target problem areas to assist in repairing damage and relieving pain.
Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy
Platelet-rich plasma therapy provides a treatment that focuses on promoting your own healing powers. Platelets play a vital role when you sustain an injury. When your body senses an injury, it releases chemicals that activate the healing process. Platelets are dispersed to repair the damaged cells.
As the healing process continues, pain is also reduced. Platelet-rich plasma therapy speeds up the process and enhances the activation of healing. As a result, your body heals faster thanks to the high concentration of growth factors and platelets delivered through the PRP injections.
This effective therapy provides a long-lasting pain relief solution that promotes the restoration of the structure to injured areas while allowing your body to optimize function. The PRP injections present little risk as the treatment is created using your own blood.
After a small amount of your blood is drawn, it is spun in a centrifuge to separate the platelets. Because the platelet-rich plasma is created at the site where your treatment is performed, you will safely receive the solution created from your own blood.
PRP is rich in healing components that accelerate healing. The solution contains platelets, proteins, growth factors and healing agents that are highly concentrated making them extremely effective when introduced to injured or damaged areas. Your body automatically uses the solution to begin to heal tissue and renew cells. It also triggers other regenerative cells to assist in the process.
Following PRP treatment, you can resume normal activities right away with little to no downtime required. This makes it an attractive alternative to surgery, which can require weeks or even months of recovery time. The treatment has long-lasting results, allowing you to remain active with reduced pain because you are targeting the cause of your pain instead of simply masking the symptoms.
If you would like more information on the healing properties found in your own blood, speak to our team today.