Rick Wright, MD, the author of this blog, is a sports medicine physician at Washington University Orthopedics in St. Louis and the head team physician for the St. Louis Blues. He specializes in the treatment of sports-related injuries, and has special interests in knee ACL and revision ACL injuries, meniscus injuries, articular cartilage injuries of the knee, shoulder instability, rotator cuff disease, and total knee replacements. Your comments and feedback are encouraged.
Saturday, April 23, 2016
PRP for Osteoarthritis
The search for ways to improve osteoarthritis pain continues. I believe eventually we may figure out the proper use of Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections to decrease pain. HERE is a study evaluating different kinds of PRP preparations. It appears PRP containing fewer white blood cells works better when injected into joints than injections with higher concentrations of white blood cells.
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