Joint Injection Therapy
Get Back to The Activities You Enjoy Without Pain!
While traditional corticosteroid injections can cause further tissue damage, Platelet Rich Plasma or PRP is a natural anti-inflammatory that contains significant healing properties to help patients reduce their pain and renew their joint health.
Platelet Rich Plasma
Optimized for Healing™
Platelet Rich Plasma or PRP is a musculoskeletal therapy that has received significant attention from the media due to the many professional athletes that use PRP to heal from injuries. Many physicians consider PRP to be the ALL NATURAL alternative to CORTISONE shots. While cortisone just masks pain, PRP contains many healing properties that can actually repair damaged tissue.
PRP is derived from a patient’s own blood sample and is composed of highly concentrated platelets and growth factors. PRP has been shown to stimulate healing by supplying growth factors, cytokines and other bioactive proteins. PRP can also act as a biological scaffold for stem cell treatments which can potentially enhance healing even further.
Why RBI's PRP?
There are numerous PRP methods available so be sure to do your research on which might be best for you and your particular condition. RBI’s proprietary Platelet Rich Plasma is optimized for healing by reducing leukocyte (or white blood cell) concentration while maximizing the number of platelets. Leukocytes can promote inflammation resulting in inferior repair with scar tissue. Therefore, leukocyte-reduced PRP such as RBI's is the optimal preparation to stimulate superior healing with less scar tissue formation.
Conditions Treated by PRP
Studies suggest PRP treatment can improve healing in soft tissue and bone. These positive findings have lead to widespread use of PRP for a variety of conditions.
Arthritis
Tennis Elbow (lateral epicondylitis)
Rotator Cuff Injuries
Tendon, Ligament and Muscle Injuries
Bursitis
Plantar Fasciitis
Other:
Meniscus Injuries, ACL injuries, Back & Neck Injuries, Ankle Sprains, Tendinitis and to Boost Recovery from Surgery
PRP Injections Are Superior to Cortisone for Arthritis
PRP Injections Provide Superior Outcomes to Corticosteroid Injections for Arthritis
This study was an analysis of eight studies and 648 patients. Compared with Corticosteroid Injections, PRP was significantly better in reducing OA symptoms (pain, stiffness, functionality) at 3, 6 and 9 months post-intervention.
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections produce superior outcomes when compared with Corticosteroid injections for symptomatic management of knee OA, including improved pain management, less joint stiffness and better participation in exercise/sporting activity at 12 months follow-up.
STUDY: PRP Injections Delay the Need for Joint Replacement
The biological action of PRP could slow down the osteoarthritis progression
Purpose
The biological action of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) could slow down the osteoarthritis progression, resulting in a delay of joint replacement. This work aims to evaluate the ability of PRP to postpone and even avoid knee replacement in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) analyzing, on the one hand, the time of delay and on the other hand the percentage of patients without undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA).
Results
This work included 1084 patients of which 667 met the inclusion criteria. 74.1% of the patients in the retrospective study achieved a delay in the TKA of more than 1.5 years, with a median delay of 5.3 years. The survival analysis showed that 85.7% of the patients did not undergo TKA during the five year follow-up.
Conclusion
These data suggest that the application of PRP in Knee Osteoarthritis (KOA) patients is a treatment that could delay TKA.
Platelet Rich Plasma Better Than Hyaluronic Acid
PRP Therapy is Superior to Hyaluronic Acid (common names like Synvisc) in Treating Osteoarthritis
A recent Randomized, Double-Blind, Triple-Parallel, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial compared the efficacy of intra-articular injections of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and hyaluronic acid (HA) with a sham control group (normal saline solution for knee osteoarthritis.
The study concluded that intra-articular injections of PRP can provide clinically significant functional improvement in patients with mild to moderate osteoarthritis of the knee.
