Top athletes and sportspersons are under tremendous pressure to get back into play. They have millions of dollars riding on their backs. Their teams depend on them. A single serious injury can end a promising career. Until now, surgery has been the mainstay of treatment for sports-related injuries. Athletes are left with wires, plates, screws, [Read More]
When John, a former college football player who now works on Wall Street, pulled a hamstring while sprinting around the Central Park reservoir, his orthopedic surgeon did not recommend PRP (platelet-rich plasma) therapy. The doctor cited recent study results that revealed that patients who get PRP do not heal any faster than those who do [Read More]
There have been news reports of elite athletes like Kobe Bryant and Tiger Woods using platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy to heal from injuries by augmenting the body’s natural restorative process, but is the treatment only for celebrities? Or can regular people also benefit from PRP therapy? The preliminary findings of a small pilot study at [Read More]
What is regenerative therapy? It is a relatively new type of treatment which enables or enhances body’s own mechanisms for regeneration of a particular tissue or organ, in order to restore normal anatomy and function of that part of the body. The most significant types of regeneration therapy used for treating injuries are stem cells [Read More]
PRP is an emerging non-surgical therapy used for treating almost all musculoskeletal injuries. It is very successful in treating ligament and tendon injuries except complete tears. So professional athletes were the first to try this revolutionary treatment. One of the first athletes to successfully use a PRP treatment was a professional golf player Tiger Woods. [Read More]
A Tour de France pro cyclist pedals at more than 25 miles per hour on flat terrain and generates an estimated 450 watts of power, with sprint power in the final dash for the line escalating to a whopping 1400 watts, powered by years of hard training, a support team of dozens of professionals, and [Read More]
All professional athletes have an intense routine to achieve top results. That inevitably leads to damage of their whole body, but the locomotor system takes most of the pounding. Although it makes sense that contact sports are the most common cause of injuries of the locomotor system, the fact is that although injuries in contact [Read More]
