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What’s The Difference Between PRP And Stem Cell Therapy?
PRP or Platelet Rich Plasma has hit the mainstream media.
PRP is a mix of concentrated platelets and serum.
Why is this important? Its Well known for years that healing depends on platelets.
These very tiny blood components are rich in growth factors and help form a blood clot
during injury. When you injure an area like a ligament or a muscle, they seep into
the wound during the bleeding that normally occurs. They then set up a blood
clot to stop the bleeding and start to release growth factors to the area to
coordinate a repair response. Over the first week or so, they act as a time
release “pill” that secretes various growth factors as various times. These time
release growth factors do things like bring in stem cells and bring in new blood
vessels to ensure that the body can get more blood to the area. PRP is created
when the doctor takes blood from a vein and places it in a special centrifuge to concentrate
platelets (usually 3-5 times their normal concentration). To use a gardening metaphor, if
you have a plant that is injured and not doing well, placing some more water and fertilizer in
the ground may help your plant recover.
Platelets are like fertilizer, their growth factors help rev up the local repair response.
So PRP is generally good for helping things that may either heal on their own (given
enough time) or are maybe stuck in the healing process and need a little “kick” to get things
going towards resolution. While PRP may help recruit a few stem cells to the area, stem cell
injection therapy is much more advanced. For orthopedics in particular, if PRP is like
adding additional fertilizer and water to the plant, mesenchymal stem cells (MSC’s) are like
placing new seeds in the area and hiring a gardener. MSC’s are capable of not only
differentiating into the new tissue that is lost, but also coordinating the repair response (so
the seeds and the gardener). So MSC therapy would be more appropriate for degenerative
diseases where there is lost tissue (like chronic arthritis, a partial tenon or ligament tear, a
low back disc where there are torn fibers allowing the disc to bulge). In addition, the lab
prep for MSC therapy is much more complex than PRP. While PRP can be made in a
simple bedside centrifuge, MSC’s are isolated and grown in a sophisticated cell culture lab
by cell biologists usually over a over two week period. The upshot, PRP is great to kick
start a healing process that may be stuck, MSC’s and other stem cell approaches will likely
rule the day in regenerative medicine
Note Original Text is a Copy/past From The Following USA Website
http://www.regenexx.com/2009/07/whats-the-difference-between-prp-and-stem-cell-therapy/
After 1st July 2010
PRP Cost Between 325 -to- 715 US$ (250-to-500JD)
While Stem Cell Cost Is Around 10000 - 22000 US$ (7000 to 15400 JD).
PRP or Platelet Rich Plasma has hit the mainstream media.
PRP is a mix of concentrated platelets and serum.
Why is this important? Its Well known for years that healing depends on platelets.
These very tiny blood components are rich in growth factors and help form a blood clot
during injury. When you injure an area like a ligament or a muscle, they seep into
the wound during the bleeding that normally occurs. They then set up a blood
clot to stop the bleeding and start to release growth factors to the area to
coordinate a repair response. Over the first week or so, they act as a time
release “pill” that secretes various growth factors as various times. These time
release growth factors do things like bring in stem cells and bring in new blood
vessels to ensure that the body can get more blood to the area. PRP is created
when the doctor takes blood from a vein and places it in a special centrifuge to concentrate
platelets (usually 3-5 times their normal concentration). To use a gardening metaphor, if
you have a plant that is injured and not doing well, placing some more water and fertilizer in
the ground may help your plant recover.
Platelets are like fertilizer, their growth factors help rev up the local repair response.
So PRP is generally good for helping things that may either heal on their own (given
enough time) or are maybe stuck in the healing process and need a little “kick” to get things
going towards resolution. While PRP may help recruit a few stem cells to the area, stem cell
injection therapy is much more advanced. For orthopedics in particular, if PRP is like
adding additional fertilizer and water to the plant, mesenchymal stem cells (MSC’s) are like
placing new seeds in the area and hiring a gardener. MSC’s are capable of not only
differentiating into the new tissue that is lost, but also coordinating the repair response (so
the seeds and the gardener). So MSC therapy would be more appropriate for degenerative
diseases where there is lost tissue (like chronic arthritis, a partial tenon or ligament tear, a
low back disc where there are torn fibers allowing the disc to bulge). In addition, the lab
prep for MSC therapy is much more complex than PRP. While PRP can be made in a
simple bedside centrifuge, MSC’s are isolated and grown in a sophisticated cell culture lab
by cell biologists usually over a over two week period. The upshot, PRP is great to kick
start a healing process that may be stuck, MSC’s and other stem cell approaches will likely
rule the day in regenerative medicine
Note Original Text is a Copy/past From The Following USA Website
http://www.regenexx.com/2009/07/whats-the-difference-between-prp-and-stem-cell-therapy/
After 1st July 2010
PRP Cost Between 325 -to- 715 US$ (250-to-500JD)
While Stem Cell Cost Is Around 10000 - 22000 US$ (7000 to 15400 JD).
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Dr. Denian's Clinic
MD. Senior Consultant
Neuro Esthetic, Pain And Anti Aging Rehab.
Professional Rehabilitation & Cell Regeneration Medical Services
MD. Senior Consultant
Neuro Esthetic, Pain And Anti Aging Rehab.
Professional Rehabilitation & Cell Regeneration Medical Services
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