The other day I mentioned that
I suspected Rafa Nadal had undergone PRP treatment for chronic knee tendinitis.
My reasons for being suspicious are that:
2. I’m fairly sure Rafa would have tried everything else
3. I noticed before Monte Carlo Rafa was wearing a strange little band aid patch like what people have put on post-scope except it was over his muscle (see video)
4. He has had a noticeable mark on his right knee near the patella tendon (see photo.)
5. Rafa talked about a ‘new treatment’ that had led to a vast improvement in his symptoms that he needed to have three times.
6. Rafa’s specialist Angel Ruiz Cotorro says the treatment he will have straight after Wimbledon is to “improve the regeneration of the tendon.”
Enter PRP.
So what is PRP? Platelet Rich Plasma. A certain amount of
plasma is extracted from your own blood and then separated and injected into
the tendon in the same treatment session.
How PRP works is that it helps inhibit excess inflammation
so that rehabilitation and activity can be resumed and symptoms improve. It
also stimulates the release of growth factors that helps generate more cells
while recruiting other cells that aid tissue repair. Growth factors contain
cells that assist will healing and tendon regeneration by better simulating the
initial healing response. These factors basically help the tendon repair,
allowing you to maximize your body’s healing response.
Now as far as I know, and as far as been has revealed to the
public, Rafa has chronic knee tendinitis not tendinosis. PRP can also be used
to treat tendinosis which is basically an accumulation of repeated injuries to
the tendon that have failed to heal properly. A tendinosis is essentially a
chronic cycle of poor healing in the absence of inflammation, whereas
tendinitis is inflammation to the tendon caused mostly by overload.
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