Senior Patient Finds Pain Relief with PRP & HA injections
Hello, my name is Dora and I'm 91 years old and I've been I've had a hip replacement and a revision, and I've been in working in my gym and I was walking three to four hours a day with my Roy to Walker. And then one day I woke up after overworking in my gym and I couldn't walk. My knee had just given out. So anyhow, I heard about Dr. Stone and I came into his office and I was given a shot a month ago and I'm back to walking three miles a day, two or three hours a day. And I feel just great. I can get up and sit down with no pain.
Well, two weeks after the shot, I've definitely had improved and four weeks after the shot, I able to, uh, walk two or three hours a day using my rollator, which I've used for years. And, um, and that, that, that mouse to about three miles a day.
Well, I think most, most often you would probably see, uh, an orthopedist who would want to do a knee replacement that wasn't, uh, feasible in my situation. And, um, so I was really in pain and I didn't know what to do about it. And I very fortunately heard about Dr. Stone.
At The Stone Clinic, we combine PRP (platelet-rich plasma) with HA (hyaluronic acid) to create a broadly stimulating "cocktail" to induce a healing response in both non-operative and post-operative patients.
For patients, like Dora, who are at an age where surgical interventions are not recommended, pain-relieving injections provide a critical treatment solution to seniors who are experiencing joint pain and loss of mobility. When paired with a well-designed physical therapy program, these patients can often regain lost functionality and range of motion.
Our use of pain-relieving anabolic injections focuses on stimulating your body’s own internal pharmacy to improve the site of your injury in the following ways:
- accelerating the healing process
- lubricating the joints to reduce painful friction
- shutting down inflammation
- limiting scar formation
- recruiting the body’s stem-cell-derived self-repair cells to regenerate damaged tissue