Regenerative Medicine: Helping Your Body Heal Naturally
An exciting new approach which can greatly enhance the bodies ability to heal is the use of platelet rich plasma. Once we have confirmed your diagnosis, we can offer regenerative medical techniques that are, many times, less invasive alternatives to surgery.  Often, these techniques prove more effective than conventional therapies. Click here for more information on PRP.

Ultrasound-guided injections
The injection of drugs to relieve pain and reverse the course of rheumatologic disease is made more accurate and effective through our use of ultrasound guidance.  These three P’s of ultrasound guidance form the cornerstone of our approach:

• Precision:  We can inject the structure responsible for pain.  This gives us a better result and allows us to use smaller doses of medication.
• Performance:  We cannot be sure that a certain treatment is ineffective unless we know that it was used correctly.  Prior to proceeding with surgery we may recommend repeating cortisone or hyaluronic acid injections if they have been given before without ultrasound guidance.
• Possibilities:  The possibilities of helping to relieve pain in patients with arthritis are greatly expanded if we can actually see what we’re doing.  The promise of regenerative medicine, where we induce the body to heal damaged areas with cells/substances from the same person, is made possible by our ability to identify the right injection target. 

Ultrasound guided knee aspiration		Ultrasound-guided knee injection
Needle collecting fluid inside knee