If you’ve experienced chronic shoulder pain, you know just how debilitating it can be. Regular physical activities you once loved can become impossible, especially if you’re suffering from a degenerative disease like osteoarthritis, which progressively gets worse over time.

Most doctors jump straight to surgery as the end-all-be-all remedy for persistent shoulder pain, but at Rejuvinix, invasive procedures aren’t the go-to answer. Instead, our groundbreaking approach leverages the body’s own natural healing power to restore function and mobility.

How PRP Therapy Can Help

This is where platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy, also known as regenerative cell therapy, comes in. This type of regenerative approach represents the latest in joint repair. It’s a surgery-free, in-office procedure that relies on one key “medicine” that happens to be in abundant supply—your own blood.

ProPlaz therapy at Rejuvinix begins by drawing a blood sample, then filtering out these powerful platelets by way of a centrifuge. From there, PRP is injected directly into the shoulder joint.

Why? There are natural growth factors in our blood that can majorly bring down inflammation and repair injured tissue naturally, whether your pain is due to an injury, overuse or a condition like osteoarthritis. PRP therapy also jumpstarts the healing process by triggering your body to rebuild healthy, new tissue. This is because, when compared to ordinary blood, the injection has a higher concentration of platelets. Another key thing to remember is that our plasma has powerful, all-natural regenerative properties. So when we reintroduce it into a damaged joint, the healing effects usually take hold relatively quickly.

According to a firsthand patient account featured by The Washington Post in 2016, the big draw of PRP therapy has to do with recovery time. After having laparoscopic surgery, the patient, Marlene Cimons, wrote that: “The outcome was excellent, but the recovery time was long and horrible.” After experiencing the ease and effectiveness of PRP therapy, she was sold.

Cimons’ injury was related to a partial rotator cuff tear, which her doctor says is in an area known for having a naturally poor blood supply. This is precisely why PRP therapy works—it attracts regenerative cells to come work their regenerative magic.

While most people assume that the shoulder is made up of a single joint, it’s actually made up of a collection of joints. But, similar to the hip, the ball-and-socket image is an accurate way to describe its anatomy. And, just like the hip, it’s vulnerable to injury.

What Next?

Getting out from under shoulder pain doesn’t have to necessitate an invasive surgery and, in turn, a long recovery time. Rejuvinix is pioneering PRP therapy, leading the pack when it comes to groundbreaking regenerative medicine. Interested in learning more about how ProPlaz works? Reach out today to arrange a free informational consult to fill in the blanks.