Maybe you have a regular golf game with friends that’s become the highlight of your week, or you run each morning before work. However you play and exercise, you enjoy moving around, which makes sports injuries very unwelcome developments.
If you’re sidelined by a sports injury and you’re eager to get off the bench, you’ve come to the right place. As our name suggests — No Mercy Sports Medicine — Dr. Moisés Irizarry-Román and our team cater to helping patients overcome musculoskeletal injuries of all kinds.
And platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy has become a true workhorse in these efforts.
Let’s first explore what PRP brings to the recovery table when it comes to sports injuries, which can affect a combination of tendons, ligaments, cartilage, muscles, and bones.
Platelets are cells in your blood that play a key role in healing. First, they stop any bleeding by forming a clot. Once this threat is out of the way, these platelets set to work to encourage healing by releasing growth factors and inflammatory markers. In short, platelets kick off the healing cascade and encourage repairs and rebuilding.
With PRP, we harvest your own platelets, concentrate them in some of your blood’s plasma, and redirect them into your injured tissues to accelerate these repairs through cellular regeneration.
There are hundreds of ways that you can hurt yourself while playing sports or exercising — from head to toe. And these injuries can be acute or develop more slowly due to repetitive stresses.
What they all have in common is that they involve musculoskeletal damage, and that’s where PRP can help. To give you an idea of the wide range of applications for PRP injections, here are some examples of common sports injuries that our PRP injection therapy can help heal:
When patients come in to see us with a sports injury, whether it’s on this list or not, our goal is to help them heal as quickly and as strongly as possible, and PRP helps with that.
And don’t just take our word for it. One study reports that athletes who received a PRP injection for a lower grade injury not only returned to their sport more quickly, the treatment also had “optimal effects on sports injuries not responding to conservative management.”
Another thing to know about PRP therapy is that it’s safe because we’re using your own platelets. The last thing you want as a sports enthusiast is to compound an injury with a treatment, and PRP doesn’t do that — it complements instead.
Whatever sports injury you’re dealing with, it’s a good bet that PRP therapy can help you get back in the game. To schedule your PRP consultation with Dr. Irizarry-Román, simply contact No Mercy Sports Medicine in Miami, Florida, by calling 305-614-6757. You can also send a message online to request an appointment.
