Spinal conditions often come with difficult symptoms like chronic pain. Interventional pain management physicians use various medical approaches to address your spinal condition and related symptoms. This includes platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy for many of our patients.
PRP treatment is a type of regenerative medicine based on a sample of your blood. With centrifuge technology, your provider concentrates the parts of your blood that trigger healing and new growth, which can then be returned to a treatment area around your spine.
Regenerative medicine taps into your body’s natural healing factors to target and address a specific condition or treatment area. Your provider may recommend this treatment if you have spinal conditions like those listed below.
Conditions that benefit from PRP
Here are five of the spinal conditions that can benefit from PRP therapy.
1. Spinal arthritis
Arthritis can result in degenerative damage to the tissues and joints within your spine and attendant pain symptoms. PRP therapy may be part of your treatment plan for spinal arthritis. A sequence of targeted PRP injections can help your spine regenerate after spinal arthritis.
2. Degenerative disc disease
You rely on the cushioning discs in your spine to separate the small vertebral bones and keep everything moving smoothly. If you suffer from degenerative disc disease, your discs can collapse, shift, or become less-than-optimally functional.
PRP injection therapy can help to reverse the impacts of degenerative disc disease, giving your spine back the healthy cushioning, it needs to function in comfort.
3. Herniated discs
One of the most common spinal issues in adults, a herniated disc, occurs when damage to a spinal disc results in the disc nucleus pushing out into the spinal canal. Degenerative disc disease often results in disc herniation. An epidural injection of PRP can assist your body in repairing the damaged area of your spine.
4. Sacroiliac joint pain
Your sacroiliac (SI) joint connects your spine to your hips. SI joint pain is typically experienced in your buttocks and lower back and results from damage to the SI joint. PRP injections give your body what it needs to heal the SI joint area and end your pain symptoms.
5. Facet joint pain
Each of your vertebrae contains tiny facet joints. If your facet joints are affected by arthritis, inflammation can result in intense chronic pain. PRP is an effective way to improve the condition of your facet joints and find pain relief.
If you suffer from the spinal conditions listed above, another spinal degeneration, or other damage-related pain, PRP could be a good option for you.
Precision Pain Care and Rehabilitation has two convenient locations in Richmond Hill – Queens, and New Hyde Park – Long Island. Call the Queens office at (718) 215-1888 or (516) 419-4480 for the Long Island office to arrange an appointment with our Interventional Pain Management Specialists, Dr. Jeffrey Chacko or Dr. Sonny Ahluwalia.
