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Blood Clot Prevention: Injection. Your doctor has prescribed shots (injectable medicine) to prevent or treat blood clots. This medicine is an anticoagulant (an-tihko-AG-you-lent). Sometimes it is referred to as a blood thinner. Along with the anticoagulant medicine, your doctor may prescribe other methods to prevent blood clots.
The use of platelet rich plasma (PRP), a portion of the patientâs own blood having a platelet concentration above baseline, to promote healing of injured tendons, ligaments, muscles, and joints, can be applied to various musculoskeletal problems. Ultrasound and photograph of a PRP injection into a patient's tendon tear. It was used as early as the 1990s in maxillo-facial and plastic surgery. PRP injections are prepared from one to a few tubes of the patientâs own blood with strict aseptic technique.