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 Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | ACEINTHEHOLE - 2014-09-17 8:25 AM If there are no tears, what exactly would you use the PRP for? Don't you just use PRP, bone marrow, ect.. when you have a hole (tear) to heal?
It stimulates healing and has short term painkiller properties, so it can be used for lots of things. I had my horse's front ankles done last spring to try to stimulate cartilage regeneration. I haven't xrayed to check progress, but I can tell you he's traveling better. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | ACEINTHEHOLE - 2014-09-17 8:52 AM Longneck - 2014-09-17 8:42 AM ACEINTHEHOLE - 2014-09-17 8:25 AM If there are no tears, what exactly would you use the PRP for? Don't you just use PRP, bone marrow, ect.. when you have a hole (tear) to heal? Ahh, I didn't even think about that! I guess I'm not trying to regenerate the area!
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 Tough Patooty
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Location: Sperry, OK | Three 4 Luck - 2014-09-17 9:08 AM ACEINTHEHOLE - 2014-09-17 8:25 AM If there are no tears, what exactly would you use the PRP for? Don't you just use PRP, bone marrow, ect.. when you have a hole (tear) to heal? It stimulates healing and has short term painkiller properties, so it can be used for lots of things. I had my horse's front ankles done last spring to try to stimulate cartilage regeneration. I haven't xrayed to check progress, but I can tell you he's traveling better.
Correct, but cartilage regeneration is something to "heal", but this suspensory it just inflammed, no damage done yet.. so nothing really to "heal". Just needs to increase blood flow to remove the inflammation and ease the strain. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | Three 4 Luck - 2014-09-17 9:08 AM ACEINTHEHOLE - 2014-09-17 8:25 AM If there are no tears, what exactly would you use the PRP for? Don't you just use PRP, bone marrow, ect.. when you have a hole (tear) to heal? It stimulates healing and has short term painkiller properties, so it can be used for lots of things. I had my horse's front ankles done last spring to try to stimulate cartilage regeneration. I haven't xrayed to check progress, but I can tell you he's traveling better.
That's really interesting... I might have another horse that I would like to look into that! His is in his hocks, though. He was a 2/5 at the end of winter this year. I opted to do a one time hock injection to help him move around in the pasture. Do you think PRP would help him out to just be a light (i.e. 9 year old girl learning to ride) riding horse? |
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Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | ACEINTHEHOLE - 2014-09-17 9:19 AM Three 4 Luck - 2014-09-17 9:08 AM ACEINTHEHOLE - 2014-09-17 8:25 AM If there are no tears, what exactly would you use the PRP for? Don't you just use PRP, bone marrow, ect.. when you have a hole (tear) to heal? It stimulates healing and has short term painkiller properties, so it can be used for lots of things. I had my horse's front ankles done last spring to try to stimulate cartilage regeneration. I haven't xrayed to check progress, but I can tell you he's traveling better.
If something is inflamed, it needs healing even if there is no visible damage. PRP does increase circulation to the area in which it's injected. It contains concentrated healing factors, and also behaves as a mild counter-irritant, from what I have seen. |
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 Night Watchman
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Location: Central Montana | For my own knowledge.....what gets injected when using PRP for suspensory injuries?
For comparision what do you pay for PRP and for shockwave therapy in your area? Where is "your area?"
I live in central Montana and I'm pretty sure there are no vets that do shockwave in this area. |
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 Husband Spoiler
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Location: North Dakota | wyoming barrel racer - 2014-09-16 5:40 PM I am curious too.
Where do you get the runners relief? I am dealing with a strained ligament, he never told me what one, but it is in the left front leg. One that holds the pastern bone tight into the coffin joint area. He does really good for a week and then I will find him holding that toe out a bit. I wasn't told to do anything other than corral rest. No stall, but no pasture. Was told 2 months was a good time frame for him to be doing really well and it has been a month. He wears PHT bells up high over that area 27/7 unless I have this Respond Magnetic Pulse boot on him twice a day for 30 minutes. http://www.respondsystems.com/store/item.asp?Category=127&SubCategoryID=&GroupID=&SKU=SALEG
I would love to do whatever I can...I think the surgeries are out of the question and the vet never mentioned them for him as he never tore anything away from the bone.
Best price I have come across.
http://www.besthorsegear.com/collections/runner-s-relief |
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Location: Florida | PRP is a beneficial therapy for many issues, injuries. Price varries depending on the Dr. treating. Unfortunatelty there are some "people" who will skimp and use a regular serum seperator tube and not a true PRP tube (big difference). The tubes are costly so how much serum you needs (locations) is where your price would very.
I would put a fair price at $450 per site on average but varries $150-2600. I would be leary of anyone doing it too cheep, that they are not using the correct tubes.
We do PRP along with Steile Homeopathics, Prolozone on some high clientele and charge $250-450 depending on the site (how difficult) what type of prep is involved and weather a local or general is required.
Editied to add, PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) is the use of you own live cells, to regroup and regenerate the cells in an injured area. Everyone is diffrerent and some Dr's will use additive, some do a MISO therapy several small injections over the area, more shallow believe that after a certain amount of time has gone but that the body just fees it is finished healing and comes to a stopping point that the mild injury to the area along with cells with trigger the body to begin the healing process again.
Edited by bigbob 2014-10-12 9:02 PM
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