Platelet-rich plasma (aka liquid gold) is gaining in popularity because it can help with many different conditions and many areas. What is PRP? It involves using a blood sample from a patient, then spinning it in a centrifuge to separate the blood cells from the plasma. It can then be injected into different parts of the body to promote healthy healing.
What is PRP?
Plasma and platelets are two components of blood. The plasma is the liquid portion. It is composed of mostly water and proteins. Plasma helps white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets move through the body. Platelets are the cells that promote clotting, cell reproduction, tissue regeneration, and healing.
Platelet-rich plasma is the blood that contains more platelets than usual. As mentioned, it is created by spinning the blood in a centrifuge. This separates the platelets from the other components of blood. PRP can accelerate healing and stimulate the body to grow new cells. For this reason, it can be used to help heal damaged tissue, decrease pain, recover from injury, and much more.
What Areas Can it Treat?
As mentioned, platelet-rich plasma has been shown to help stimulate healing, regenerate tissue, repair damaged skin, and much more. It can be used as a natural treatment for a number of cosmetic conditions and musculoskeletal injuries.
For instance, PRP is used to treat tendon, ligament, muscle, and joint injuries. These injuries typically take a long time to heal, but PRP injections can decrease pain and stimulate the healing process, letting people recover faster.
It can also be used to accelerate healing after surgery, treat osteoarthritis pain, help heal acute muscle injuries, and much more. Since PRP uses your body's own healing processes, it tends to be more effective than other methods.
Benefits
One of the most common questions is “what is PRP used for and how can it help?” There are many ways that platelet-rich plasma can provide benefits. In addition to helping people recover from injury, PRP injections can also provide benefits in many other areas.
For instance, it helps with reducing the rate of hair loss. Injecting PRP into the scalp can help promote hair growth and also prevent hair loss. That is because it naturally increases blood supply to the hair follicles in the scalp, stimulating growth and increasing hair thickness. This makes your hair look thicker and fuller overall. Over a series of treatments, different stages of hair growth are stimulated, providing you with an opportunity to turn back the clock and reverse hair loss.
PRP can also treat stretch marks and scars. In addition to accelerating the healing process, which can help reduce the appearance of scars and stretch marks, PRP injections also help increase your body’s production of collagen and elastin. This helps make your skin look younger, smoother, and more supple. This also improves the elasticity of your skin, making it great for skin rejuvenation. In some cases, stretch marks occur when your skin loses elasticity due to an excess of cortisone in the body. PRP injections can help in these situations.
Platelet-rich plasma injections use your own blood to stimulate natural healing. It allows your body to do the work necessary to reverse the signs of aging and improve your physical health. They are also minimally invasive with no downtime added.
In most cases, 3 PRP injections in 4 weeks intervals are suggested to get the most from this therapy. However, our team will talk with you, work to understand your goals, and determine a treatment plan that will provide you with the most benefit.
At
Moser Medispa & Rejuvenation, we are dedicated to helping you look and feel your best. Talk to Cynthia about how PRP – or any of our other treatments – can help you. Please call us at 705-529-4633 or
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