Severe and chronic shoulder pain can place an enormous burden on your quality of life, and the right treatment or surgery can make all the difference in helping you live your life to the fullest once again. This is exactly why Dr. Bennett specializes in using PRP to enhance the effects of procedures like rotator cuff surgery.

As one of Sarasota’s top orthopedic surgeons, Dr. William F. Bennett is a pioneer in the field who is dedicated to constantly advancing how he approaches arthroscopic surgery. By using PRP to enhance the results of rotator cuff surgery, Dr. Bennett has helped hundreds of patients regain their range of motion, eliminate stiffness and pain, and escape chronic suffering.

What Does Rotator Cuff Surgery Involve?

Rotator cuff surgery is used when the rotator cuff injury is defined as a complete tear of more than 50 percent thickness. As Dr. Bennett wrote in a paper published in the journal Pain Management & Rehabilitation, the addition of PRP to minimally invasive rotator cuff surgery “decreased pain and positively affected rotator cuff healing” and could “significantly improve repair integrity on post-op MRI.” By augmenting arthroscopic repair with PRP therapy, Dr. Bennett can provide his patients with much faster recovery times, reduced pain following surgery, and sustainable healing results.

Why Does PRP Deliver Results?

PRP accelerates and enhances the body’s natural healing processes. It harnesses the power of platelets found in the blood. Platelets carry a number of essential proteins and enzymes called growth factors that support tissue healing and battle inflammation. Dr. Bennett completes every PRP procedure by drawing a small amount of blood and placing it into a centrifuge to spin and concentrate the platelets. Those platelets are suspended in a small amount of the patient’s own plasma and immediately injected into the injury site guided by ultrasound technology.

If you are suffering from chronic shoulder pain, a standard surgery with a long recovery time is not your only option. You can call (941) 229-1648 to make an appointment with Dr. Bennett and explore the option of using PRP to enhance your rotator cuff surgery results. Over the past two decades, Dr. Bennett has had the opportunity to compare right to let shoulder surgeries in the same patient who had one shoulder repaired with the applications of PRP and the other shoulder repaired without, and years of patient follow-up has provided ample evidence that the use of PRP with rotator cuff surgery will decrease pain and length of rehabilitation time.