Mid-term knee arthritis, Changwon Himchan Hospital PRP injection treatment effectively
Mar 13, 2025
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This is a method of injecting self-platelet-rich plasma collected from one's blood into the knee joint cavity.
The treatment, which was approved as a new medical technology by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in December last year, will be able to extend the treatment that has been applied to elbow and shoulder joint damage to the knee area.
As you get older, your joints age just as gray hair increases and wrinkles occur. There is cartilage between the bones of the joint that absorbs shock, and knee arthritis is a disease that causes inflammation and pain due to the peeling of the cartilage protecting the joint or damage to the bones and ligaments that make up the joint.
According to statistics from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, the number of knee arthroplasty patients was 3,201,368 in 2023, an increase of 25.7% over the past decade compared to 2,546,496 in 2014. It has steadily increased every year due to an increase in the elderly population, an increase in the obesity rate, and sports injuries. By age, people in their 60s and older account for about 86.4%, so it is known as a representative lifestyle disease due to aging.
If you have knee arthritis, your joints are filled with water, so they swell and hurt. The area around the joint becomes stiff and there are restrictions on movement. Treatment and management are important because severe cases can lead to deformation of joints and cause discomfort throughout daily life.
In the early stages of arthritis, physical therapy and drug therapy, weight management and lifestyle improvements, and exercise can alleviate symptoms and prevent disease progression. However, in the mid-term arthritis stage of the 2nd to 3rd stages, more active treatment is needed to reduce knee pain. Before surgical treatment using arthroscopy, injection treatment is the most easily accessible.
Among the various injection treatment methods, 'autologous platelet-rich plasma injection therapy', which has recently been certified for safety and effectiveness, is attracting attention.
In particular, for patients with knee osteoarthritis with KL grades 2 to 3, which have not been effective in existing treatments such as oral drugs, steroids, and hyaluronic acid injections for more than a year, pain relief can be expected with PRP injection treatment. In other words, reliable new options have been added for patients with mid-term arthritis who have hesitated to treat due to the burden of surgery or have insufficient effects of existing cartilage injections.
PRP injection treatment collects the patient's own blood, extracts concentrated autologous platelet-rich plasma using a centrifuge, and injects it into the knee joint cavity. Because platelets contain a variety of growth factors, they help heal damaged tissues and reduce inflammation. As it is an injection treatment, outpatient treatment is possible on the same day without hospitalization, so it is convenient for treatment, and because it uses its own blood, it is a safe treatment with little risk of side effects such as infection or allergies. Treatment can be performed more than 3 to 5 times depending on the individual's condition.
In order to enhance the effectiveness of the treatment, it is important to increase accuracy to prevent mixing of other components during the extraction process and to maintain high activity of the concentrated PRP. Differences in experience and proficiency of medical staff can also affect the effectiveness and safety of injection treatment.
Director of Changwon Himchan Hospital Sanghoon Lee Hospital (Orthopedic Surgeon) "Repeated treatment may be required depending on the patient's condition, and it is important to maintain the accuracy and activity of PRP extraction" It is expected to have a positive effect on pain relief in patients with moderate arthritis who have not responded to conventional conservative treatment for more than 1 year."
Meanwhile, Changwon Himchan Hospital is leading the latest medical technology in the region by quickly introducing self-platelet-rich plasma intra-articular injection treatment for knee osteoarthritis, following the establishment of a knee artificial joint surgery system using a robotic surgical device and activation of intra-articular injection treatment of bone marrow aspiration concentrate for knee osteoarthritis.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
