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Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP)

A Promising Treatment for Athletes, in Blood

Two of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ biggest stars, Hines Ward and Troy Polamalu, used their own blood in an innovative injury treatment before winning the Super Bowl. At least one major league pitcher, about 20 professional soccer players and perhaps hundreds of recreational athletes have also undergone the procedure, commonly called platelet-rich plasma therapy (PRP therapy).

Experts in sports medicine say that if the technique’s early promise is fulfilled, it could eventually improve the treatment of stubborn injuries like tennis elbow and knee tendinitis for athletes of all types. Continue Reading ->

prolotherapy alternative medicine
What Is Prolotherapy?

Injections to Kick-Start Tissue Repair

The human body is held together by a network of connective tissues that are highly vulnerable to injury – through exercise, accidents and even the normal lifting, pulling and pushing of daily life.

Few of us, for example, get through life without spraining an ankle. And as many sadly know, once an ankle is badly sprained, it may be sprained again and again. That often happens as well with other body parts: shoulders, wrists, neck, back, jaw, feet, even fingers and toes, all of which are subject to arthritic changes after an injury. Continue Reading ->