According to many recent articles, Bulls star Derrick Rose has successful surgery to repair his torn ACL. Surgeons used part of Rose’s patellar tendon to augment the torn ACL. To speed up his healing process, physicians also used platelet rich plasma to augment the repair. Team physicians are hoping that the 2011 MVP will be […]
Huge news for the Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) world was just released. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposes that platelet-rich plasma (PRP) – an autologous blood-derived product, will be covered only for the treatment of chronic non-healing diabetic, venous and/or pressure wounds. This is great news for potential PRP injection patients, PRP […]
In general what percentage of patients that have PRP treatments for torn meniscus end up getting positive results? I am considering having the procedure with the Regennex clinic in Broomfield Colorado. How often does it require multiple injections? Dr. Andrew Blecher The is no published evidence to show that PRP treatment is effective for meniscus […]
All Star outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, Carl Crawford, is the latest of many professional athletes to get PRP Treatment done to help an injury. Crawford has a sprained ligament in his throwing elbow and it’s rumored to keep him off the field for 3+ months. Per recommendation of team doctors, Crawford visited Dr. James […]
Each month we are putting together what we like to call – the “PRP Roundtable”. We will ask a question to a handful of expert PRP doctors. They will answer and we will combine these answers into a monthly post. Below is the February 2012 PRP Roundtable topic and answers. We had 3 responses in […]
