Health & Fitness
Reclaim Your Active Life: Innovative Therapy Heals Debilitating Pain
Hackensack University Medical Center offers hope for chronic pain with PRP, a cutting-edge, non-surgical option.
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Crippled by mysterious back pain, 53-year-old Andrea Loberbaum's active life was put on hold. For six months, even sitting became unbearable. Desperate, she turned to Chris Cherian, M.D., a sports medicine physician at Hackensack University Medical Center, whom she'd previously seen for tennis elbow. But an MRI revealed a shocking diagnosis: a rare gluteus medius tear, usually only seen in professional athletes! Facing surgery, Andrea opted for a less invasive procedure—the same one that fixed her elbow. Could this innovative treatment, platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy, offer her a chance to reclaim her life?
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