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When to use Prolotherapy when to
use Platelet Rich Plasma
A Literature Review by Gary B. Clark, MD, MPA
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy is a
particularly hot topic, nowadays—in the laboratory, the clinic, and on
the street. A very recent New York Times (NYT) article describes how two
Pittsburg Steelers “used their own blood in an innovative injury
treatment before winning the Super Bowl.” The article goes on to cite
several other sports figures who have also been successfully treated in
this fashion. It refers to PRP Therapy as a means of delivering a
“growth-factor cocktail” to such injuries as “tennis elbow” or “knee
tendinitis” (sic).
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy is a particularly hot topic,
nowadays—in the laboratory, the clinic, and on the street. A very recent
New York Times (NYT) article describes how two Pittsburg Steelers “used
their own blood in an innovative injury treatment before winning the
Super Bowl.”2 The article goes on to cite several other sports figures
who have also been successfully treated in this fashion. It refers to
PRP Therapy as a means of delivering a “growth-factor cocktail” to such
injuries as “tennis elbow” or “knee tendinitis” (sic).
It is gratifying—if not somewhat humorous—that the advocates for this
“new” PRP treatment describe how this “nonsurgical” therapy works by
using “the body’s own cells to help it heal”—as if Prolotherapists have
not been doing exactly the same thing since the mid-1930’s. And the same
PRP advocates tout their noninvasive technique du jour as providing
better cost-effectiveness compared to surgery, thereby making PRP
Therapy hugely attractive for preferential insurance reimbursement—while
standard Prolotherapy remains non-reimbursed by most healthcare
insurance programs!
The truth of the matter is that
Prolotherapy doctors have been using the
earliest version of PRP Therapy for years—achieving all of PRP Therapy’s
basic positive attributes, albeit less potent to some degree but at a
very small fraction of the cost.
The NYT article goes on to say that PRP Therapy “has the potential to
revolutionize not just sports medicine but all of orthopedics”—possibly
“obviating surgery and shortening rehabilitation.” Isn’t that one reason
why Prolotherapists have been calling our style of practice “Orthopedic
Medicine”—treating joint injury and dysfunction while protecting our
patients, whenever possible, from more invasive, expensive, and
potentially debilitating orthopedic surgery by using the nonsurgical,
regenerative approach of Prolotherapy?
Read the entire article
Platelet Rich Plasma and Prolotherapy
at The Journal of Prolotherapy
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