PRP THERAPY IS A MODERN METHOD OF TREATING INJURIES AND INJURIES AFTER ACTIVE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY.

Unfortunately, active physical activity is often accompanied by various herbs : sprains, tendons, joint injuries. Injuries are inevitable companions of professional athletes. Most often, injuries and injuries occur due to improper exercise technique, improperly selected load, and safety violations during training.

Nobody is immune from injuries!

Due to various injuries, even outstanding athletes skip workouts, lose their fitness and leave their sports mode. One awkward movement - and now participation in the competition, to which years of training led, wasted not a single year of life. No matter how hard we try, it is almost impossible to avoid injury and damage.

But, fortunately, medicine and science do not stand still either.

Modern technologies offer us therapies that can shorten recovery time, which means not to waste time or leave the sport mode.

Over the past decade, in the ranks of sports doctors, the PRP therapy (PRP therapy) method of using platelet rich plasma (from the English PRP - platelet rich plasma) has become widespread . Not a single article in the journal of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons is devoted to this method. This technique has been successfully used by such outstanding athletes as Tiger Woods (golf), Takahashi Saito , Alex Rodriguez , John Paterson (baseball), LaRon Landry, Hines Ward (football), Brandon Roy (basketball), Donovan Bailey (sprinter) and a lot others.

Recent studies have shown that the use of platelet-rich plasma can aid rapid recovery from injuries such as:

• "Tennis" elbow,
• plantar fasciitis,
• patellar tendinosis,
• tendinitis / tendinosis of the Achilles tendon,
• biceps tendinitis / tendinosis,
• tendinitis / triceps tendinosis,
• quadriceps tendinitis / tendinosis,
• hamstring tendinitis / tendinosis,
• partial rupture of the rotator cuff of the shoulder joint,
• rotator cuff tendinitis / tendinosis,
• bursitis bursitis,
• sprains, meniscus pain,
• damage to the anterior cruciate ligament.

To obtain PRP mass (plasma RICH in platelets, as opposed to plasma therapy, where plasma LEAVED in platelets is used) , about 20 ml of blood is taken from a person, centrifuged prp tubes in a special centrifuge (while the separation of platelets, erythrocytes and blood plasma occurs), a blood fraction is taken, in which now the platelet count is increased 5 times or more (when using patented automatic systems) and is injected into the site of injury.

Platelets are a natural source of growth factors that attract other cells to the site of damage, mainly stem cells ("young" still unspecialized cells, from which any other cells - muscle, bone, cartilage) can be formed. And then the recovery process begins - cell division, collagen and elastin synthesis, cartilage restoration, blood vessel growth, soft tissue formation, muscle and bone tissue restoration.

Doctors note that the use of PRP is especially good for the rapid recovery of ligaments and tendons, because there are few blood vessels in the body next to them, which means that healing is usually very slow. This is where plasma comes to the rescue - a “cocktail of growth factors” injected into the site of injury.

By injecting PRP into the site of injury, we "attract" all the restorative forces of the body to it, and the increased number of platelets after centrifugation enhances this effect by 5-10 times. According to Professor Monaco, using PRP can reduce recovery time for fresh injuries by 50 percent or more .

At the same time, the procedure is absolutely safe , because only the patient's blood is used, the possibility of allergic reactions is excluded. The procedure itself takes no more than an hour, i.e. is effective, simple, fast and safe for the patient. Shorter recovery from injury means less time wasted. In addition, for some injuries, PRP can replace cortisone injections , which can become harmful over time, and reduce the need for surgery. Surgical interventions permanently incapacitate an athlete and are an order of magnitude more expensive than PRP therapy.

In addition to quick recovery , which allows for rehabilitation without leaving the sports regime, the PRP also has another target group - chronic injuries (tennis elbow, knee in jumping athletes). Chronic injuries lead to a decrease in sports performance, a decrease in training time.

PRP therapy is perfectly combined with traditional methods of trauma treatment , such as the use of anti-inflammatory drugs, physiotherapy, massage, change in stress and the selection of special exercises, adaptive physical rehabilitation.