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When a nerve is injured, it can lead to burning pain, numbness, tingling, weakness, and significant limitations in daily life. While many treatments focus on masking symptoms, Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) offers a different approach by harnessing your body’s own healing potential.
At Tampa Pain MD, Dr. Arun Kalava uses advanced ultrasound-guided techniques to precisely deliver PRP around injured peripheral nerves with the goal of supporting the body’s natural repair process.
What is Nerve PRP?
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) is created from a small sample of your own blood. The blood is processed to concentrate platelets, which contain numerous growth factors and healing proteins.
When injected around an injured nerve, PRP may help create an environment that supports nerve healing, reduces inflammation, and promotes recovery of damaged nerves and thus reduction in pain and disability.
Who May Benefit from Nerve PRP?
Nerve PRP may be considered for patients experiencing:
- Peripheral nerve injuries
- Post-surgical nerve pain
- Traumatic nerve injuries
- Nerve entrapment syndromes
- Neuromas
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Persistent numbness or tingling
- Burning or electric-shock-like pain
Common Nerves We Evaluate and Treat
Depending on the source of symptoms, PRP may be used around nerves such as:
- Head & Neck: Trigeminal nerve, Occipital nerve
- Upper Limb: Suprascapular nerve, Axillary nerve, Brachial plexus, Radial nerve, Median nerve, Ulnar nerve
- Thoracic: Intercostal nerve, Pectoral nerve
- Pelvis: Ilio-inguinal nerve, Genito-femoral nerve, Pudendal nerve, Posterior femoral cutaneous nerve
- Lower limb: Femoral nerve, Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, Sciatic nerve, Tibial nerve, Sural nerve Peroneal/Fibular nerve
How We Diagnose Nerve Injury
Successful treatment begins with an accurate diagnosis.
Our evaluation may include:
- Comprehensive clinical examination
- Diagnostic ultrasound
- Review of MRI studies
- Nerve conduction studies (when appropriate)
- Diagnostic nerve blocks
Using high-resolution ultrasound, Dr. Kalava can often visualize the injured nerve and identify areas of swelling, scarring, compression, or abnormal appearance.
Potential Benefits of Nerve PRP
Patients may experience:
- Reduced nerve-related pain
- Improved function
- Decreased numbness and tingling
- Reduced inflammation around the nerve
- Enhanced healing environment for nerve recovery
- Improved quality of life
Because PRP uses your own blood, there is no risk of allergic reaction to the injected material.
Why Choose Tampa Pain MD?
Dr. Arun Kalava is a double board-certified pain physician and Mayo Clinic fellowship-trained expert in regional anesthesia and peripheral nerve procedures.
With extensive experience performing ultrasound-guided nerve interventions, Dr. Kalava specializes in identifying the source of nerve pain and developing personalized treatment plans designed to maximize recovery while minimizing unnecessary medications and surgery.
Contact Us
If you have been told you have nerve damage, neuropathy, or chronic nerve pain, you may be a candidate for Nerve PRP.
Contact Tampa Pain MD today to schedule a comprehensive evaluation and learn whether Nerve PRP can help you move beyond symptom management and toward healing.
