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How can PRP help with chronic pain?
Patients presenting with chronic pain can be challenging to manage for a variety of reasons. General X-ray is often an efficient and logical first step, but it has its limits in demonstrating abnormality. A normal report becomes problematic when the patient has continued pain or symptoms that are not responding to usual treatments such as rest, analgesia, physiotherapy, etc.
PRP offers bulk-billed bone scan studies with short waiting times on most occasions.
Nuclear Medicine bone scan, with CT co-registration when appropriate, assists with diagnosing of bone (e.g. malignancy/metastasis, trauma/fracture, infection and some others) and joint (e.g. arthritis/synovitis) pathologies. Some soft tissue abnormalities can be assessed on occasion (e.g. tendonitis, cellulitis).