APC Injections

Part of our commitment to treating you at the Advanced Footcare Clinic come right out of our name: advanced. We are committed to being involved in research and using new, and cutting edge technologies and procedures to bring you the best available treatment for your feet ankles, and whole person. This is why we have an updated website full of patient information, offer books, and host numerous blogs. The ESWT is one way we bring new technology into our office. And the APC injection is a cutting edge procedure that we offer.

Autologous Platelet Concentrate, or APC, is a procedure that is done to stimulate healing. Blood is drawn from the patient, spun in a centrifuge, and the platelets (the growth and healing factors in the blood) are drawn out afterwards. After the platelets are drawn out, they are re-injected into the damaged tissue in the plantar fascia. This stimulates healing at a rate of five times more quickly than the healing rate of normal blood vessels. This procedure is especially safe since it uses your body's own healing faculties, just in a concentrated and directed form.

This treatment may sound familiar to you, as it was featured in number of news stories after Pittsburgh Steeler's wide receiver Hines Ward underwent this treatment on his knee before the team's Super Bowl Win early this year.