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    • About Dr. Nguyen
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  • Home
  • About Dr. Nguyen
  • Clinical Assistants
  • ACL Surgery
  • ACL Rehab
  • Hyaluronic gel Injections
  • PRP Injections
  • Sports Medicine Symposium
  • Pediatric ACL Surgery
  • Meniscus Surgery
  • Urgent Sports Fractures
  • Shoulder Instability
  • Medical Education

PRP (platelet rich plasma) Injections

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections for muscle, ligament tendon, cartilage injuries

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections for muscle, ligament tendon, cartilage injuries

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections for muscle, ligament tendon, cartilage injuries

  

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00648
 

http://www.aaos.org/news/aaosnow/sep10/clinical1.asp


http://www.aaos.org/news/aaosnow/jun10/clinical9.asp

Blood draw

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections for muscle, ligament tendon, cartilage injuries

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections for muscle, ligament tendon, cartilage injuries

Performed under sterile technique 

Blood delivery into Centrifuge system

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections for muscle, ligament tendon, cartilage injuries

Blood delivery into Centrifuge system

Centrifuge system will separate the platelet rich plasma from red blood cells and white blood cells

(Flow Cytometry)

Programming the centrifuge

Separation of blood components by light

Blood delivery into Centrifuge system

Can generate white blood cells rich or poor plasma depending on the clinical indication (articular vs. soft tissue injections)

Separation of blood components by light

Separation of blood components by light

Separation of blood components by light

Final PRP product

Separation of blood components by light

Separation of blood components by light

PRP automatically withdrawn into sterile syringe by the centrifuge. 

Closed loop system to minimize contamination

Knee PRP injection technique

Elbow PRP injection Technique

literature review - prp injections for muscle tears PRP may decrease swelling & speed up healing which in turn may decrease time for return to play

Ultrasound guidance - A dynamic diagnostic visualization

Ultrasound guided PRP (platelet rich plasma) injections

Correlation of the site of pathology on MRI

Meta-analysis of 18 studies

Primary outcome = change in pain intensity. Leukocyte rich prp better than leukocyte poor prp

Indications: tennis elbow, patella tendonitis, rotator cuff tendinopathy, achilles tendinopathy. 

Recommendations: ultrasound guided single prp injection into tendon with 2 mm local anesthetic superficial to tendon using 6 pass peppering dry needling

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  • About Dr. Nguyen
  • Clinical Assistants
  • ACL Surgery
  • ACL Rehab
  • Hyaluronic gel Injections
  • PRP Injections
  • Sports Medicine Symposium
  • Pediatric ACL Surgery
  • Meniscus Surgery
  • Urgent Sports Fractures
  • Shoulder Instability
  • Medical Education