Does PRP work for hand pain and wrist pain? Carpal Tunnel? De Quervain's? Yes!
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) is a regenerative medicine or orthobiologic injection that is made from a patient's own blood in the office.
There is a lot of ongoing research to determine what conditions PRP works best for and also to determine the best dose of this biologic "drug".
The good news is that we have enough research published to use PRP to help patients with many hand and wrist conditions like carpal tunnel syndrome and De Quervain's tenosynovitis. Previously, the main non surgical injection for these conditions was a steroid shot....which worked sometimes but also had other effects on the soft tissues that we would rather avoid! All of these injections are done in the office under ultrasound guidance so we can precisely place the injection.
