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The Regenerative Clinic

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✐ Surgeon: Tendinopathy: causes and treatments explained

✐ Surgeon: The Regenerative Clinic: Platelet Rich Plasma injections for Tennis elbow (elbow tendinopathy)

✐ Surgeons: Dr. Mikel Sánchez speaks to The Regenerative Clinic about using PRP in Sports Medicine

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PRP is an abbreviation for 'Platelet Rich Plasma'.

platelet rich plasma separated by centrifuge
Blood sample spun in a centrifuge to separae out the important platelet-rich layer.

 

Use in early osteoarthritis

PRP has become a popular adjunct to other cartilage repair methods as it contains an array of anti-inflammatory substances and growth factors.

Synonyms: 
platelet-rich-plasma
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FORUM DISCUSSIONS

Cost of PRP injections.. Who, Where and How Much?

How to prepare for PRP?

PRP injections are regenerating my knee cartilage & ligaments.

CLINICAL PUBLICATIONS

Biology of platelet-rich plasma and its clinical application in cartilage repair. Xie X, Zhang C and Tuan RS. Arthritis Res Ther. 2014; 16(1): 204.

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