Plasma-enriched platelets (PRP therapy) work on the basis that your own natural healing powers of the body can slow and even reverse the process of aging and inflammation, being a revolutionary healing system that places growth factors in the exact location where we want in the tissues, to repair it and to restore it.
Treatment involves platelets harvested from the patient’s own blood in order to inject them into problem areas, beginning with the extraction of a minimal amount of blood from the patient. This is then placed in a centrifuge that separates red blood cells from plasma with T platelets. Platelets have a high content of “growth factors” – proteins that help heal damaged skin or tissue. When re-injected, the platelets release growth factors that cause the surrounding cells to proliferate, and in turn stimulate regeneration, healing of tissues.
Results of PRP THERAPY
Clinical effects:
- Accelerate the healing of trauma with varying degrees of severity.
- Attenuation of clinical symptoms of trauma (pain, edema, redness, reduced mobility).
- Reducing recovery periods.
Biological effects:
- Enhance cell regeneration processes.
- Stimulation of the formation of fibroblasts, osteoblasts, chondrocytes.
- Intensification of the processes of collagenase, osteogenesis, angiogenesis.
- Improvement of blood circulation and metabolism.
How PRP THERAPY works in sports medicine
- Introduced locally.
- It works only in tissues that require regeneration.
- It does not have a systemic action on the body.
- Can be combined with classic treatment methods.
Advantages of PRP THERAPY in sports medicine
- Safety – does not cause allergies, rejections and side effects.
- Efficiency – reduces the duration of restoration period of affected tissues.
- Practice – the procedure is atraumatic and does not require a recovery period.
- Universality – can be combined with classic treatment methods.
Indications for the application of PRP THERAPY in sports medicine
- Concussions, dislocations, spins,
- Tendinopathies,
- Ligament breakage,
- Lesions of muscle tissues,
In sports medicine, PRP THERAPY can be successfully combined with other medical procedures. Concomitant application of plasma infiltrations and such procedures as physiotherapy, ozonotherapy, electromyostimulation, reflexology, medical gymnastics and massage allow for a reduction in the period of healing of trauma and postoperative recovery.