Got Knee Pain? Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy Helps Avoid Knee Surgery
Do you have knee pain? Tear a knee meniscus, sprain a ligament or have symptomatic knee arthritis or bursitis? Knee injuries, cartilage tears or tendon sprains are common causes of knee pain. Many patients can get relief with rest, wearing a knee brace and taking an aspirin, ibuprofen or other pain relieving agent. Sometimes a cortisone injection will relieve the knee pain without further treatment. When knee pain persists, patients seek out orthopedic surgical opinions. All too often, patients are told that surgery is their only option. Unfortunately surgery does not always work and patients are left with persistent knee pain. They then resort to narcotic pain killers to relieve pain.
Platelet rich plasma therapy has been FDA approved for medical use for over 20 years. Platelet rich plasma is derived from your own blood, eliminating risk of disease transmission. Two ounces of blood is drawn and the natural healing component of the blood is concentrated by 500%. This is the platelet rich plasma, (PRP). PRP is the concentrated healing component of blood. This can be injected directly into the knee joint (a relatively painless procedure.) Platelet rich plasma will heal damaged knee tissue naturally, using the body’s own healing mechanism to repair the damaged meniscus, ligament or tendon. In patients whom suffer from bone-on-bone arthritis as a cause of their knee pain, platelet rich plasma can stimulate the natural regrowth of cartilage, which relieves the pain. PRP can also help patients who have had arthroscopic surgeries who still have knee pain. Avoid surgery, stay off narcotics.
Using PRP has many advantages: 1) it is an outpatient procedure with no recovery time, 2) it requires no general anesthesia, 3) there is no rehabilitation required, 4) healing occurs by a completely natural process, 5) complications are almost unheard of and 6) cost is much less than surgery. If you have knee pain or other joint pain, you should look into getting platelet rich plasma therapy a proven, non-surgical treatment for joint pain. For more information go to our Sarasota PRP for knee pain page or call Dr. Kassicieh at 941-955-5858 for an appointment.