We offer consultations with our board certified fellowship trained providers to evaluate whether an interventional procedure can help reduce pain. These recommendations may include traditional steroid based injections or regenerative techniques such as platelet rich plasma (PRP).
See Our Team for more info on the providers.
Various interventional procedures offered:
- Epidurals (Interlaminar and Transforaminal)
- Facet Injections
- Medial Branch Blocks
- Radiofrequency Ablation
- Sympathetic Nerve Blocks
- Peripheral Joint Injections
- And many others
PLATELET RICH PLASMA (PRP)
It is crucial when choosing a practice that provides PRP treatment that you ensure you are actually getting a PRP treatment. There are many companies and sales teams peddling inferior products and inferior PRP kits, resulting in platelet poor plasma. Sadly, many providers don’t know how to differentiate these kits and don’t know they aren’t actually helping the patients nor treating them with real PRP. Ask what systems are being used, how concentrated is the final platelet injectate (needs to be at least 5x baseline to meet the clinical definition of PRP), and how do they know what they are using is adequate.
At Rio Medical Group, we use the Emcyte PurePRP system. It consistently provides a minimum of 7x baseline of platelets, as well as the other requirements you need to ensure an effective treatment with PRP. You can read about the Emcyte system here:
This is another good summary explaining how PRP kits work, what minimums are needed for treatment, and why this is important:
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