More than 20% of adults in the United States suffer from chronic pain, which is persistent pain that lasts three or more months. This pain affects your physical, emotional, social, and financial well-being.
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy is becoming a popular treatment for people suffering from chronic pain. Here, we share five benefits of PRP therapy for chronic pain.
1. PRP Therapy Uses Your Blood
PRP is a blood product that contains a high concentration of platelets. We create PRP for your treatment from a sample of your blood. Because we use your blood for PRP therapy, there’s a shallow risk of side effects from treatment.
Corticosteroid injections are a common treatment for chronic knee pain and shoulder pain conditions. However, these injections may provide only temporary relief, and their long-term use may cause permanent tissue damage.
PRP therapy is an alternative pain management treatment that may ease pain without such complications.
2. PRP Therapy Supports The Healing Process
Platelets are tiny blood cells that play a major role in the body’s repair process. With PRP therapy, we inject a high concentration of platelets into areas where there’s a delay in healing. The platelets in the PRP stimulate the healing process in the nonhealing tissue, increasing cellular activity and the generation of new cells and tissue.
3. PRP Therapy Reduces Inflammation
Inflammation is part of your body’s repair process. The initial inflammation that occurs from an injury starts the body’s healing cascade (the steps of tissue repair and regeneration). Platelets have both pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators.
When we inject the PRP into the damaged part of your body, you can expect an initial increase in inflammation and swelling. However, you should experience improvements in inflammation over time as the damage heals.
4. PRP Therapy Is A Natural Approach To Pain Relief
By reducing inflammation and supporting the healing process, PRP naturally reduces pain. And by boosting healing at the source of your pain, you may have long-term relief from your discomfort.
5. PRP Treatment Is Quick
We provide PRP therapy at the office. We start by taking a sample of blood to make your PRP solution and then preparing the site of your injection by cleaning the skin with an antiseptic agent and injecting a local anesthetic to minimize pain.
We then use image-guided technology when injecting your PRP to ensure accuracy. We have you remain in the treatment room for a while for observation. Afterward, we send you home and you can resume most of your normal activities.
Are you looking for a more natural solution to your chronic pain that may provide long-term results? You may want to consider PRP therapy.
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.
