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Gloria Tucker, M.D.
Proliferative Therapy works well for pain caused by early Osteoarthritis and any other autoimmune arthropathies. PRP can often be helpful in patients with more significant OA. In a recent study by the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, (3), there was decreased pain and stiffness and increased function in arthritic knees treated with PRP. In this same study, MRIs were compared before and one year after treatment with PRP, where there was no change in the appearance of the osteoarthritis, in contrast to the usual 4-7% decline in cartilage volume normally seen in knee arthritis. Of course, in clinical practice, we do not use MRIs to follow the progress of our intervention of proliferative therapy. A recent review published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, (2) fount that PRP was an effective treatment of degenerative knee joint cartilage.
