This treatment takes your blood, like going for a blood test, and re-introduces the concentrated blood platelets from your blood into areas of chronic joint and spine deterioration.

Your blood platelets contain growth and healing factors. When concentrated through centrifuging in specialized tubes, your blood plasma becomes “rich” in healing factors, thus the name Platelet RICH plasma. Platelets play a central role in blood clotting and wound/injury healing.

The procedure and preparation of therapeutic doses of growth factors consist of an autologous blood collection (blood from the patient), plasma separation (blood is centrifuged), and application of the plasma rich in growth factors (injecting the plasma into the area.) Patients are generally seen every 4-6 weeks. Typically, three to six visits are necessary per area.

These injections are administered exactly as would be done with prolotherapy. They are treating the same issues, except PRP tends to have a stronger effect on healing due to the concentrated amounts of growth factors found in blood.