Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) therapy is a new regenerative repair treatment technology. It has brought new hope to patients with various diseases and become a boon for the majority of patients. Today, we will unveil its "mysterious" veil.

What is Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) therapy?
PRP, short for Platelet-Rich Plasma, is a platelet concentrate extracted from whole blood through centrifugation. It contains a high concentration of platelets, white blood cells, fibrin, and various growth factors. When injected into the lesion site, it can accelerate the recovery process of tissues, relieve pain, control inflammation, and achieve the effects of repairing damaged tissues and improving symptoms. Over the past nearly 20 years, PRP has been widely used in clinical practice at home and abroad.

What diseases can PRP treat?
PRP therapy has obvious effects, is safe, has long-lasting effects, has sufficient sources, and has a wide range of applications. It causes few autoimmune reactions, activates the body's natural healing process, and participates in the regeneration of damaged tissues. It has significant effects on diseases such as arthritis, meniscus injury, synovitis, cartilage wear, tendon injury, fasciitis, heel pain, and tennis elbow.

What are the steps of PRP treatment?
PRP treatment only requires four steps to relieve patients from pain and improve their quality of life. Through the four steps of blood collection, centrifugation, extraction, and injection, the treatment process is easy with slight pain, and patients can walk immediately after the treatment.

How many injections are needed for PRP treatment?
One course of treatment consists of 3-5 injections, once every two weeks. For patients with severe injuries, it is recommended to proceed with the next course of treatment after half a year.

What is the storage time and temperature for prepared PRP?
PRP should be prepared immediately after blood collection at room temperature (20°C) and is best used within 30 minutes.

Can I walk after the treatment? What should I pay attention to?
PRP is injected using a syringe needle or puncture needle, and there is no obvious trauma at the injection site. Therefore, there is only slight pain when the needle punctures the skin. Patients can walk immediately after the treatment and resume normal activities. It is advisable to avoid getting the injection site wet within 24 hours.

How safe is PRP injection?
PRP is derived from autologous blood and usually has no side effects. Due to the anti-inflammatory effect during tissue absorption, some patients may experience mild or moderate swelling and pain at the injection site or in the injected joint, which is tolerable and requires no special treatment. For knee joint injections, such symptoms usually disappear within 1-3 days; for shoulder joint injections, the swelling and pain may last for 4-7 days. There is no risk of immune rejection or disease transmission, so it is well-safe.

How effective is PRP treatment?
PRP can promote the repair of injuries and solve problems fundamentally. It has a very good therapeutic effect in relieving knee joint pain, can significantly reduce pain, improve symptoms and enhance the quality of life, and the clinical effect is relatively long-lasting.

What is the difference between PRP injection, "block therapy" and sodium hyaluronate injection?
PRP injection has both anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects, and can promote the repair of tendons, cartilage and bone tissues. In terms of pain control, its effect is more definite and longer-lasting. Compared with hormone-based "block therapy", which has significant side effects, PRP therapy can greatly reduce complications such as elevated blood sugar, joint infection, tendon hardening, and osteoporosis after treatment. Compared with sodium hyaluronate, which acts as a "lubricant", PRP injection has a more definite effect. Sodium hyaluronate injection may be ineffective or have a short duration of effect, requiring frequent intra-articular injections, which can lead to cartilage damage and aggravate joint injury. In contrast, PRP injection focuses more on repairing injuries and achieves better therapeutic effects.

How can the prepared PRP be better applied to diseases?
① Unactivated PRP is in a liquid state, which is convenient for injection into joint cavities or local areas, such as knee joint injection, trigger point injection for tennis elbow, Achilles tendon, hair transplantation, and injection into the wound surface of wrinkle removal surgery, etc.
② PRP activated by combining with thrombin forms a gel-like substance, which is convenient for adhering to, packing wounds, covering wound surfaces and preventing the loss of growth factors. It starts to release growth factors within 10 minutes.

The Shuangwei Biotechnology PRP 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.