Why use Bone Marrow Concentrate over PRP for knee osteoarthritis? Here are some (but not all) of the reasons!
#1 It has much more IRAP in it (anti-inflammatory)
#2 It has cellular (mesenchymal and hematopoietic) content that can promote a sustained paracrine effect.
#3 Clinical data suggests that improvements from a single injection of BMC last longer than the improvements from a single PRP injection (*with good harvest technique incl. location AND *with good BMC protocol for concentrating)
In my office the average patient gets about 18 months of significant benefit from a single high dose PRP injection.
The same patient gets about 3.5 years of significant benefit from a single BMC injection.
