CAMAGUEY, Cuba, Dec 7 (ACN) As a benefit to people suffering from chronic pain, the consultation for the administration of platelet-rich plasma, a regenerative therapy of great acceptance also used worldwide in healing and beautification, is functioning in this city(central region).
As a result of the existing aging population, a large part of the patients treated have generalized osteoarthritis or other degenerative diseases, which cause painful injuries, mostly in the shoulder, knee and hip, explained to Cuban News Agency Zaily Fuentes Diaz, a specialist in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation.
To date, 131 patients have benefited from the therapeutic method, who have spent more than three months with the condition and have tried all the alternatives without any result, she added.
In the consultation, the patient's blood is extracted, centrifuged to separate the components and the platelet-rich plasma is taken, which is administered to the painful area.
Its application in the painful area allows the production of collagen and the long term restitution of the functionality of the joint, either relieving or improving it, commented the head of teaching and research at the aforementioned hospital center.
The procedure is based on the release of growth factors from the patient's own platelets, which is one of its advantages, since it avoids contamination when blood from another person is used.
It is a biostimulus, therefore it is necessary to complete six months of use, Fuentes Diaz emphasized and added that in the first stage they are seen one day a week, then in a meeting every 15 days during the second month, and from the third month they are treated once until the total time indicated has elapsed.
In February 2004, regenerative medicine began to be used in Cuba with the first applications of autologous adult stem cells in patients with angiological conditions.
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