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We are so excited about the results we are seeing with our patients. More importantly, our patients are excited and living their lives enjoying the activities they love. People who previously avoided many activities due to their pain have been able to return to golfing, running, traveling, and spending quality time with their friends and families. We would love for you to be able to experience these same benefits. Take control of your health.
What is Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy?
Although blood is mainly a liquid, it also contains smaller components, such as red blood cells, white cells, and platelets. These platelets are best known for their importance in clotting blood, yet platelets also contain hundreds of proteins called “growth factors”, which are very important in the healing process.
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) is plasma with an increased number of platelets compared to what is typically found in blood. The concentration of platelets—and, therefore, the concentration of growth factors—can be five to ten times greater than usual.
To develop PRP preparation, blood must first be drawn from a patient. The platelets are then separated from other blood cells and are increased in concentration during a process called centrifugation. This increased concentration of platelets is then injected into the joint, muscle, tendon, ligament, or around the bursa.
How can Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) therapy relieve pain?
Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP) has been utilized for 50 years around the world. Now ground-breaking in America, this non-operative treatment option relieves pain by naturally promoting long-lasting healing of musculoskeletal conditions. The acronym PRP has most recently been featured in the news with the rising popularity of the treatment among professional athletes, recreational athletes, and highly functional individuals. Many have attributed PRP injections, particularly for athletic injuries, with enabling them to return back to regular activities and competition with minimal to no pain at all. This rapidly emerging technique shows very promising potential for many conditions such as arthritis, tendonitis, and ligament sprains and tears.
PRP therapy presents patients with a long-lasting, permanent solution through the body’s natural healing process. PRP is not something that wears off over time as with a traditional pain injection.
What conditions can be Treated?
Doctors first used PRP Therapy to help people heal after surgeries. Examples of tissues that PRP Therapy has been used on include:
- Tendonitis
- Ligaments
- Muscles
- Arthritis
- Bursitis
Conventional treatment for osteoarthritis typically involves procedures that have short-term results and may have negative side effects:
Cortisone Injections
Cortisone injections can reduce pain temporarily, but repeated use can cause joints to degenerate even faster and put you at increased risk for injuries.
Physical Therapy
Physical therapy can help strengthen surrounding musculature, but will never be able to make the joint less arthritic.
Viscosupplementation
May be a viable option for some patients to slow the degenerative process but are not regenerative in nature and often require repeat procedures.
Joint Replacement Surgery
Contains many significant risks including blood clots, permanent scarring, failure of the implant, and poor long-term outcomes. It also requires extensive downtime, time-consuming post-surgical rehabilitation.
Bone Marrow Aspirate
WHAT IS BONE MARROW ASPIRATE CONTAINING STEM CELLS?
- Bone marrow aspiration (BMA) is a quick, out- patient procedure in which a concentrated amount of bone marrow aspirate containing stem cells is injected into areas of concern
- A BMA injection at the site of discomfort can put the body in the best position to heal itself
- BMA contains other growth factors and anti inflammatory proteins which promote healing
- Increased stability and strength, as well as decreased pain have been reported in post-procedure patients
- BMA contains 100 times more stem cells than peripheral blood
BMA has the potential to improve:
- Disc issues
- Osteoarthritis
- Ligament tears
- Joint damage
- Soft tissue damage
- Muscle damage
BONE MARROW ASPIRATION AND BIOPSY
WHAT IS BONE MARROW?
Bone Marrow Aspiration and Biopsy examine bone marrow, a soft, spongy tissue inside the bones. Bone marrow produces various blood cells, including red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. These procedures provide valuable information about the health and functioning of the bone manow and the blood-forming cells within it.
BONE MARROW ASPIRATION (BMA):
Bone marrow aspiration involves the removal of a small sample of liquid bone marrow using a thin needle. The most common site for aspiration is the posterior iliac crest, the back pail of the pelvic bone. However, other bones like the sternum (breast- bone) or the front of the pelvic bone can also be used.
The patient may be lying on their side or stomach during the procedure. The skin over the chosen site is cleaned and numbed with a local anesthetic. A special needle is then inserted through the skin and into the bone marrow cavity, where a
small amount of liquid marrow is withdrawn. But patients may experience pressure or a brief moment of pain when the needle is inserted.
ALPHA-2-MACROGLOBULIN
(A2-M OR A2M)
A TRULY REMARKABLE SUBSTANCE
A2M is a remarkable substance with ample evidence for its effectiveness in treating osteoarthritis (OA) and degenerative musculoskeletal conditions like tendinosis and tendon tears. We know that a major culprit in these diseases is enzymes (proteases) that destroy structural proteins such as collagen, leading to cartilage, tendons, ligaments, and bone breakdown. A 1999 study showed that in chronic wounds, proteases are present in abundance and are responsible for failure to heal.
1. Proteases in high concentrations, which is a typical scenario for chronic tissue damage and joint disease, are bad. A2M binds these enzymes in a manner similar to a venus fly trap and carries them away for disposal, making it an ideal substance for stopping disease processes in OA, chronic non-healing injuries, and tendon or ligament disorders.
2. The goal of treatment is not to suppress symptoms but rather to stop tissue destruction. This represents a significant departure from standard approaches, which use pain medications and cortisone, none of which modifies the disease.
A2M IS A GAME CHANGER IN THE TREATMENT OF MUSCULOSKELETAL CONDITIONS
Using an FDA-compliant sterile device, we obtain A2M in a concentrated form, 80 to 100 times baseline concentration, from your blood plasma. Using precise ultrasound guidance, the A2M is delivered to the location of the disease, whether it be a joint, an area of degenerated and torn tendon, or a damaged ligament. Platelet rich plasma (PRP) is injected with the A2M to provide growth factors for healing. We have seen that improvement using A2M plus PRP is substantially faster than with PRP alone or with PRP and lipoaspirate (your own fat). As a result, activity and sports downtime is reduced, return to play quicker, and pain relief occurs
sooner.
SOME OF THE DESTRUCTIVE ENZYMES THAT A2M TRAPS INCLUDE:
- ADAMTS-7 and ADAMTS-12, which destroy cartilage oligomatrix protein (COMP)
- Matrix Metalloproteinase-3 (MMP-3), which is one of the first MMPs to be activated in the OA process and activates other MMPS. MMP-3 is a particularly bad player. A2M binds a wide variety of MMPs.
- ADAMTS-4 and ADAMTS-5, which destroy glycosaminoglycans (GAGS) within cartilage. GAGS are essential for cartilage strength, and their loss renders the cartilage susceptible to long term damage.
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