certainly some really promising stuff this PRP

Here is some background

It was first used by dental surgeons about 15 years ago to enhance wound healing of bone grafts during dental reconstructive surgery.

8 ml of blood is drawn under sterile conditions, processed in a centrifuge before it is injected back

With conventional treatment, a calf muscle tear for instance, would normally take about six weeks to heal. However, with PRP, it would only take half the time. In fact, ultrasonic evidence of healing was apparent as early as seven to 10 days after the injection was administered. Normally, this would have taken between two to three weeks

PRP is low risk since it only involves the injection of the patient's own blood products. There is hence no chance of rejection or acquiring infections such as hepatitis or AIDS. For the doctor, it offers a relatively quick procedure to perform.

Platelets can also only survive for seven to 10 days, so the regeneration given by the PRP is not ongoing, unlike the potentially more permanent nature of stem cell treatments.

However, in many instances, this boost is all that is needed for injuries to heal quicker.
"With conventional treatment, a calf muscle tear for instance, would normally take about six weeks to heal. However, with PRP, it would only take half the time. In fact, ultrasonic evidence of healing was apparent as early as seven to 10 days after the injection was administered. Normally, this would have taken between two to three weeks," revealed Dr Patrick Goh, Consultant Sports Physician at SportsMed Central, a clinic that runs under the Healthway Medical Group umbrella.

When injury occurs to musculoskeletal tissues, the body's healing mechanism triggers a blood clot where platelets accumulate. Central to the body's normal healing process, the platelets then release growth factors and signalling molecules (cytokines) to initiate repair. These growth factors attract stem cells to the injured area, stimulate DNA and cell synthesis and promote many activities associated with regeneration and tissue healing.

PRP therapy involves the isolation and concentration (two to six times higher) of the patient's own blood platelets before injecting them into the site of the injury. With a rich environment of vital growth factors created here, the healing process is accelerated.

During the 30-minute minimally-invasive outpatient procedure, about 8 ml of blood is drawn under sterile conditions, processed in a centrifuge before it is injected back into the site of injury. This is usually done under ultrasound guidance to offer maximum accuracy of the injection by a sports physician or orthopaedic surgeon. Local anaesthetic may be applied prior to the PRP injection. The entire process is relatively painless and patients are usually able to walk and perform normal daily activities after the injection.

Besides muscle tears or strains, other conditions which can benefit from PRP therapy include tendon tears or strains, tendon inflammation or degeneration (including tennis elbow and Achilles tendonitis), ligament tears and joint cartilage 'wear and tear' (osteoarthritis).

As regards to safety, Dr Goh assured, "PRP is low risk since it only involves the injection of the patient's own blood products. There is hence no chance of rejection or acquiring infections such as hepatitis or AIDS. For the doctor, it offers a relatively quick procedure to perform."

Short-term side-effects include soreness and stiffness at the injected site, while over the longer term, mild stiffening and scarring may occur but usually no worse than what is expected with normal healing.

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LOL can you be more specific as how and why that particular activity made you "feel all funny"?
was that really the best comparison that you could come up with?
you SILLY you

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Yes but, from video only a few injections in scalp, not 2000 cuts to scalp, and a piece of flesh cut from back, very BIG difference... if shock loss was so easy to cause, people would get it from banging head, does that happen Dickota3? No.

Hello Guys,

Can any of you post information about the cost of the procedure (especially those who go to consult with the surgeons).

Also, what are the periods of time between treatments?

This makes me think of botox -- multiple treatments over time, but no permanent results. (We won't know yet, I understand.)

Thanks.

Hi Dr,

I just registered to this today.You started providing the patients with PRP in mar-apr 2009. Whats the success rate? I am a 25 yr old man suffering from genetic hairloss and i am currently on spectral -dnc and dutasteride/provillus but i don think they are giving me any visible results However my scalp has got density which can cover my hair loss. Kindly let me know if i should undergo this? i am currently staying in Bangalore, India. Let me know if you know any good doc who can perform PRP here?

Regards,
HSN

anyone else find it odd that prp recieved all this buzz and attention two years ago and since then we havent heard squat?

Dr feller you havent chimed in on this thread in a long time. Can you please provide us some updates, pics, testimonials, ect. with reagrds to prp? thanks!

That buzz and attention your referring to can also be called "hype" which is something I've been trying to avoid.

The bottom line is that in my opinion it works, BUT... only in certain types of patients. To my mind PRP is best when it is utilized in patients, usually young, whose hair is just beginning to miniturize. This did not come a surprise to me.

To date, no adverse effects whatsoever have been reported to me after PRP administration.

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Dr. Alan Feller is a member of the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians

Providing Hair Transplants and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Treatments

dr feller, can you show us some updated pics, testimonials, ect. from your younger clientele then? thank you.

also, from another forum....

Id have to disagree with you.. again you dont see people talking about their good results from it.. Mainly because there just arent many people that have had good results or any results... When I went to see Dr. Feller for my PRP treatment, I asked him how many ppl he had treated with PRP and how many responded well or at all.. His response was, "3 out of 47".. Had I not driven 500 miles to NYC, I would have ran for my life.. Those are turrible odds.. 6%!..Im also part of a few other hairloss forums and the whole prp craze has died down so much that literally you never hear it brought up...You also don't see anyone here raving about their results.. except you... sorry but the results you're seeing are probably from your propecia use... You take, what 5 mg a day?? and you're suppose to improve over a course of 2 years...If you had just done PRP alone U might be able to say you're seeing results.. but sorry, I just don't buy it.Dr. Greco said it himself.. on this thread, that PRP should be done WITH PROPECIA and MONOXIL... Yes, I did see amazing results from propecia (1mg) after almost 3 months... but the sides were to much for me to bear with it any longer.

dr feller anything?