How many platelet-rich plasma treatments are needed to treat a sports injury?

Do you need one treatment or do you sometimes need more than one treatment of platelet-rich plasma? It depends on the nature of the injury. For example, if there’s a partial tear of the rotator cuff in the shoulder, I often find we may need to do a couple of treatments approximately three to four weeks apart.

Keep in mind that the platelets release their growth factors in the first hour, but platelets can survive in the area that we inject them for up to a week, so they continued to work and continue to provide additional growth factors

I like to see my patient back in the office at about the three to four week mark to re-examine the area of injury. If under ultrasound vision, I can see evidence of some ongoing damage, then I would recommend an additional treatment of platelet-rich plasma. These are typically performed at about three to four week intervals. We can inject an area as often as required in order to obtain a good level of healing.

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