High Density Platelet-Rich Plasma Injection

Platelets are blood structures that are essential to clotting and wound healing. Without platelets, tissue repair cannot take place. They’re tiny little particles that play a big role in healing.

So what do platelets have to do with chronic pain? Platelets release growth factors, substances in the body that stimulate cell growth and division. Your body naturally produces growth factors in response to injury, and those growth factors influence nearly every stage of wound healing.

When we concentrate platelets, the result is an extremely high amount of growth factors. Through high density platelet-rich plasma injections, we can send those growth factors directly to the site of an injury that has failed to fully heal.

High Density Platelet-Rich Plasma is a form of prolotherapy. In prolotherapy, a substance is injected into the body to stimulate the body’s natural healing mechanisms. HD Platelet-Rich Plasma does just that, with the added healing power of super-concentrated growth factors from your own blood.

If we determine HD Platelet-Rich Plasma will be beneficial to your injury, you will typically be seen every four to six weeks; depending on the area injured, you can expect one to two injections.

HD Platelet-Rich Plasma has been shown to be effective in the treatment of soft-tissue injuries, including sprains, strains, tendinopathy, tendinosis, muscle fibrosis and joint capsular laxity. HD Platelet-Rich Plasma is also used successfully to treat joint inflammation, meniscal injury, arthritis, articular cartilage defects and arthrofibrosis.

Injury and chronic pain don’t have to be a way of life. Prolotherapy/HD PRP from the Center for Integrated Medicine may be the treatment that gets you back on the road to recovery.