Orioles catcher Matt Wieters had platelet-rich plasma injection in elbow Monday

May 18, 2014|By Dan Connolly | The Baltimore Sun

Injured Orioles catcher Matt Wieters had a platelet-rich plasma injection in his strained right elbow last Monday in hopes of accelerating his recovery.

“Thought it could only help speed up the healing,” said Wieters, who is not scheduled for any more PRP injections at this time.

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Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy Some Evidences Of This Effective Treatment - Άκανθα πτέρνης

by Cameron Wieght 

Foot pain is common within the US around one out of five Americans suffer from foot pain. Often they're found to possess heel spurs that cause pain. Related to heel spurs is area fasciitis. Area fasciitis is an inflammation of the most construction on the lowest of the foot. The area facia attaches to the rear of the foot at the heel bone. Once there's increase tension and inflammation on the area facia, it pulls on the heel bone, inflicting a heel spur to make. This heel spur then causes further foot pain and Platelet rich plasma therapy is one of the best treatments in this case.

The Effects of Platelet-Rich Plasma in the Treatment of Large-Joint Osteoarthritis

David C. Tietze, MD; Kyle Geissler, MD; James Borchers, MD

Abstract: Context: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common and costly condition with both operative and nonoperative treatments available. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is emerging as a treatment option for a variety of musculoskeletal pathologies, including OA. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of intra-articular PRP injection in the treatment of large-joint OA. Data Sources:PubMed, Web of Knowledge, Scopus, and the Cochrane Database were searched. The references of all articles that met the inclusion criteria were manually searched for additional articles. Study Selection: English studies that enrolled human participants were included, with level of evidence I to IV. Results: Thirteen articles met the inclusion criteria: 12 focused on knee OA, and 1 on hip OA. All studies showed statistically significant improvement in patient outcome scores with PRP. Platelet-rich plasma has a statistically significant benefit in knee OA when compared with hyaluronic acid. The benefit from PRP appears to last between 6 and 12 months.Conclusion: Platelet-rich plasma may be an effective treatment for knee OA. However, because of the low level of evidence, small sample sizes, and wide variability in treatment, no definitive recommendations can be made at this time.

Keywords: knee osteoarthritis; hip osteoarthritis; platelet-rich plasma; chondropathy; cartilage; intra-articular injection

https://physsportsmed.org/doi/10.3810/psm.2014.05.2055

What to Expect When Undergoing Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy

Platelet rich plasma therapy, commonly known as PRP, is an exciting and revolutionary new method for treating a variety of health problems, only some of which include: arthritis and injuries of the shoulder, hip, knee, spine, rotator cuff, along with ligament sprains and injury, back and neck injury, tendonitis, tennis elbow, ankle sprains and many others.