PRP Research Articles


PRP is a promising treatment option for acute soft tissue injuries. We believe it is important for our patient’s to be as educated and have provided additional research articles to assist in that process.

New Study Shows Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) More Effective Than Placebo For Knee Osteoarthritis: This double-blind study took place in India, and showed significant benefits from PRP injections for knee osteoarthritis. The new research was published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine and proved that compared to a placebo, PRP injected patients showed a dramatic increase in healing compared to their placebo counterparts. In addition, the study also confirms that the use of PRP is safe and effective.

Platelet Rich Plasma Significantly Improves Clinical Outcomes In Patients With Tennis Elbow: Researchers at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson conducted a randomized prospective study to measure the clinical value of PRP.

Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Treatment Shows Potential For Knee Osteoarthritis: ScienceDaily published this study in February 2013 showcasing the promising results of PRP that was discovered by the Hospital for Special Surgery. The PRP experiment resulted in improved pain and function in over 73% of patients, which has delayed their progression of osteoarthritis.

With Osteoarthritis affecting over 27 million Americans and is the leading cause of disability, these technological advancements are an exciting way to put an end to osteoarthritis’ continued degeneration.

“The problem with a lot of the PRP studies is that most people have just used subjective outcome instruments, such as pain and function scores,” said Hollis Potter, M.D., chief of the Division of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Hospital for Special Surgery, another author of the study. “But even when patients are blinded, they know there has been some treatment, so there is often some bias interjected into those types of studies. When you add MRI assessment, it shows you the status of the disease at that time, regardless of whether the patient is symptomatic or asymptomatic or they have good or poor function in the knee. You find out what the cartilage actually looks like. We can noninvasively assess the matrix or the building blocks of cartilage.”

Previous osteoarthritis studies have discovered that patients can lose roughly five percent of knee cartilage per year. However this PRP research recently discovered that majority of PRP treated patients had no further cartilage loss.

 

Dr. Steven Sampson Demonstrates PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) On The Doctors TV Show

 

Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections Useful For Treatment of Chronic Patellar Tendinopathy in Athletes. A study by American Journal of Sports Medicine on using PRP for treating patellar tendonitis, also know as jumper’s knee.

 

Hockey Star Backs PRP Pioneering Centre: Bert Haines of the Ice Blacks underwent Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) to repair his torn ankle ligaments. He stated, “There are no foreign substances involved, just my own blood. Along with a comprehensive physiotherapy programme, it meant I was able to return to full fitness again and have played the whole season.” Haines continued: “I don’t think I would have done that without PRP.”

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