PRP: Your Own Body's Resources for Treating Osteoarthritis and Sports Injuries
PRP stands for "Platelet Rich Plasma". Plasma is the clear part of the blood that is obtained after having passed it through a machine that centrifuges it, in order to be able to eliminate the red and white blood cells.
Platelets are then concentrated in this plasma, small corpuscles which normally play a role in coagulation, but which are used here for their regenerative properties: they contain numerous growth and regeneration factors.
Your own blood is therefore taken with a special syringe which will separate the plasma from the platelets during centrifugation.
double syringe, 15 ml
Extraction du plasma avec la seringue intérieure
centrifugation
A droite: le PRP!
Injection dans l'articulation au moyen d'une aiguille très fine.
Blood test
plasma and blood separated
