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Can you elaborate? I assume that for the PRP they take your blood and centrifuge out the PFP and inject it back into the knee joint? Glad you were able to reh
by lsllc 3y ago
Can you elaborate? I assume that for the PRP they take your blood and centrifuge out the PFP and inject it back into the knee joint?
Glad you were able to rehab so well!
- swe_dima 3y agoYes, in PRP they take your blood, extract platelet-rich plasma from it and inject it into your joint. With SVF they make you a small liposuction (around 80 ml if I am not mistaken, local anesthesia), then also extract cells from it that are similar in function to stem cells and inject them into your knee. PRP is very noninvasive. SVF is more invasive, mostly the liposuction part, but I'd say it's still walk-in the part if you compare it with something like arthroscopic surgery.
- mmmwww 3y agoHow did the half marathons go? Any pain?
- swe_dima 3y agoManaged to finish in the top 10% after 6 months of preparation. There was no pain during them, but once you cool down you feel all the beating you received. I mean, I am still not 100% healthy, I get some swelling after exercise, and I don't think I can compete with anyone doing it seriously, I just can't get the same volume of exercise a healthy person can. Like, I can only run 10-16km every 2 days, because I need to give my knee time to recover, while a healthy person can run it every day. But hell, just some time ago I was looking with jealousy at people running at all.
- mmmwww 3y agoThat’s great. No arthritis here but i had surgery in the knee for an ACL/miniscus recently so I feel your pain! I completed my first half a month ago.