(Anne breathing loudly)
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- Grew up in Michigan,
I loved athletics and being active and like to run.
It's a time to think,
it just gets my brain cleared up.
I feel like I'm a better mom.
I feel like I'm a better writer
when I can clear my head in the morning.
I always run in the morning.
When I was 29, I'd go out and run 19 miles with someone
just to give them some company.
I don't think I could do that now.
The longest I've done
in the last probably five years is 14 miles.
And that's in the outer edge
of being able to then highly function
throughout the rest of the day.
So, I started having pain shooting down the back of my legs.
When it got to a point where I couldn't run anymore,
my leg actually felt like it wouldn't bend
from your buttocks down that whole backside of your leg,
it was just all tense and almost like frozen.
And I tried everything,
I did some pain management where I did some injections.
I did cortisone for a long time.
And so finally, I went and had an MRI done,
and both my hamstring are 95% torn.
In a hamstring, you can't just tear the rest
and then there's too much going on in there.
So, one of my friends told me about PRP
and I said, "Wait, what's this, what's this?"
And she said, "Oh, my gosh.
I think I can introduce you to Dr. Ramsey
who happens to be the Pistons' doctor."
And I said, "Oh, wow. There's no way
I could get into this individual."
So, believe it or not, it's actually not that difficult.
- PRP is Platelet-Rich Plasma.
It's a injectable that we use,
part of the orthobiologics group,
that we use for regenerative
and for anti-inflammatory benefits.
And people who have all kinds of conditions,
could be tendinopathy, could be tears, could be arthritis.
So, it's a good tool that we have
that can treat multiple conditions.
- It's essentially taking your own platelets
and re-injecting them into injured places,
so in my case, the hamstrings,
and it's the worker cells that work in there
and are real concentrated and focused
and generate healing within that space
in a real targeted area.
- Anne is a high-level runner who came to see us
specifically looking for PRP.
She had torn her hamstring
a couple of years before seeing us
and had sought medical care at various providers,
had physical therapy, had chiropractic care,
had in multiple steroid injections
and wasn't getting any better.
So, when we saw her,
we were impressed by her drive and motivation to get better.
And we thought she'd be a good person to try this with.
- When I started doing the research
and met with Dr. Ramsey and learned,
"Oh, there's actually a healing element here."
I'm not just putting a bandaid on it.
I'm not just masking something.
I'm actually working toward healing this.
That was really that sort of tipping point
of that this could work, I could do this.
And it's dramatic. It's amazing.
To go from what we called 'peg legs,'
so that's what it's like
when your hamstring's just not working,
it's almost like you're just dragging your leg,
to "Oh, I have full mobility.
I can run up a hill. I could actually do a sprint."
All the pain's gone. So, it's awesome.
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The other nice thing about PRP
is there's no physical therapy.
You can really reenter activity on your own
and at your own pace and listen to your body.
So, I think that's also a benefit
that you can get back out a little bit faster.
And it's a non-surgical option.
Anytime you don't have to have surgery, it's huge.
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