As a companion piece to Keith Cronin's excellent article on the use of PRP in which the both
sides of the debate about PRP are presented, and based on a point - counterpoint debate conducted via email between the two experts
whose views are expressed in Keith's piece, Dr. Nathan Mall, associate physician for the St. Louis Cardinals and Director for the St. Louis Center for Cartilage Restoration and RepairRegeneration Orthopedics, and Andrew M. Blecher MD, a Primary Care Sports Medicine physician and Medical Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine at the
Southern California Orthopedic Institute in Van Nuys, California, here are what Drs. Mall and Blecher have to say about the current state of the research on PRP.