Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP)

There are many different compounds found in the makeup of our blood. Plasma is the liquid that fills the majority of the blood contents, but there are many other components like red cells, white cells and platelets that can be found as well. Platelet-rich plasma, or PRP for shorthand, is a substance with a much higher concentration of platelets than what would normally be found in the blood.

Platelets contain hundreds of different proteins that are often referred to as growth factors. PRP can have between five and ten times as many platelets as regular blood. So it should come as no surprise that PRP would have tremendous potential to impact the medical field, especially when attaining it is as easy as performing a blood draw.