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Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Treatment Technology: A "New Biological Engine" for the Repair of Sports Injuries

22 Apr,2025

Sports injuries are common problems faced by athletes and sports enthusiasts. Ranging from muscle strains to ligament tears, traditional treatments often encounter issues such as a long recovery period and high surgical risks.
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Treatment Technology: A "New Biological Engine" for the Repair of Sports Injuries

Sports injuries are common problems faced by athletes and sports enthusiasts. Ranging from muscle strains to ligament tears, traditional treatments often encounter issues such as a long recovery period and high surgical risks. 
In modern medicine, Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP), as an emerging treatment method, is demonstrating its remarkable potential to the world. PRP is a concentrated preparation of platelets extracted from autologous whole blood, with a platelet concentration as high as 4 to 6 times that of normal blood. This concentrate not only contains abundant growth factors, cytokines, and antibacterial peptides, but these active substances also play a crucial role in tissue repair and regeneration. Relying on its characteristics of "autologous repair, precision, and high efficiency", the Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) treatment technology is becoming a revolutionary therapy in the field of sports medicine.

 

The Principle of PRP Technology: The "Biological Toolbox" for the Repair of Sports Injuries
PRP is a platelet-rich plasma extracted from the patient's autologous blood, and its platelet concentration can reach 4 to 6 times that of normal blood. After being separated by centrifugation technology, platelets are activated and release a large number of growth factors (such as PDGF, TGF-β, VEGF, etc.), forming a "three-in-one" repair mechanism. These growth factors can promote cell proliferation, differentiation, and migration, thus accelerating tissue regeneration and repair. In addition, components such as fibrin and fibronectin in PRP form a fibrous network that is conducive to repair, providing an excellent supporting structure. 


1. Accelerated Regeneration: Growth factors stimulate cell proliferation and differentiation, promoting the regeneration of muscle fibers, tendons, and cartilage.
2. Anti-inflammation and Analgesia: The components of white blood cells inhibit the inflammatory response, and the fibrin network reduces tissue exudation, relieving pain.
3. Neovascularization: It promotes the formation of microvessels in the damaged area, improves local blood supply, and accelerates the clearance of metabolic waste.

 

Clinical Application of Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) in Sports Injuries
1. Acute and chronic tendon injuries
Tennis elbow/Golfer's elbow: PRP promotes collagen remodeling and repairs the tiny tendon tears caused by repeated strain. Studies have shown that for patients with chronic lateral epicondylitis of the humerus treated with PRP, the pain relief rate within 6 months is over 80%.
Achilles tendinitis and rotator cuff injury: PRP injection can reduce scar adhesion and restore tendon elasticity. For example, professional athletes who receive PRP treatment after a partial rupture of the Achilles tendon can return to the field 30% faster. 
2. Ligament and meniscus injuries
Lateral collateral ligament injury of the knee joint: The combination of PRP and rehabilitation training can enhance the biomechanical strength of the ligament and reduce the risk of secondary injury.
Meniscus repair: PRP injection promotes the endogenous healing of the meniscus and avoids early surgical intervention. Case studies show that in patients with grade II meniscus injury, after three PRP treatments, the range of motion of the joint increases by 50%. 
3. Muscle strains and joint degeneration
Quadriceps femoris muscle strain: PRP acts directly on the site of muscle fiber rupture, accelerating regeneration. Athletes can resume high-intensity training 2 weeks ahead of schedule after treatment.
Knee osteoarthritis: PRP protects chondrocytes and regulates the inflammation within the joint, thus delaying the progression of the disease. After three injections, a 58-year-old patient with osteoarthritis saw his pain score drop from 7 to 2, and there was a significant improvement in joint function.

 

The Core Advantages and Industry Value of Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP)
1. High Safety: Using autologous blood source poses no risk of rejection. The treatment only requires an outpatient procedure, avoiding surgical trauma.
2. Long-lasting Efficacy: The effect of a single treatment can last for 6 to 12 months, and some patients do not need repeated injections.
3. Wide Range of Indications: It covers sports-related diseases such as tendinitis, ligament injuries, and cartilage wear, and can be combined with stem cell therapy to enhance the effect.

 

Future Trends: Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy is Gradually Expanding into Multiple Fields
1. Beauty and Skin Regeneration: In the field of skin beauty, PRP is used for delicate skin regeneration, anti-aging, reducing wrinkles and acne scars, and can even be applied to treat hair loss.
2. Wound Healing: For acute and chronic soft tissue wounds that are difficult to heal, PRP has demonstrated its potential in accelerating the healing process, reducing scarring, and alleviating pain.
3. Gynecological Treatment: By intrauterine perfusion of PRP, it can improve the receptivity of the endometrium, especially suitable for patients with thin endometrium and intrauterine adhesions. 

 

The Shuangwei Biotechnology Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Preparation Kit has the following advantages:

- High degree of automation: The preparation and extraction process is fully automated. It is composed of a disposable platelet-rich plasma preparation kit and a medical centrifuge, achieving "one-time centrifugation, one-stop sealing, and one-click preparation", reducing manual operation errors and improving the preparation efficiency and accuracy.

 

- Completely closed and pollution-free: The separation and extraction process is completely closed, effectively avoiding external pollution, reducing the risk of infection, and ensuring the quality, safety and reliability of the prepared PRP.

 

- Convenient operation: The PRP with the required concentration can be obtained only through one-time centrifugation. The whole preparation process only takes 15 minutes, which greatly shortens the preparation time and improves the clinical work efficiency.

 

- Precise and adjustable concentration: Through mode selection, the concentration can be precisely adjusted from 2 to 8 times. It can provide personalized PRP concentrations according to the conditions and treatment needs of different patients to achieve the best treatment effect.

 

- Adjustable components: Consumables can be optionally configured to prepare leukocyte PRP or complex leukocyte PRP, realizing the adjustability of PRP components and further meeting the needs of different clinical application scenarios.