Most sports injuries are partial — a muscle, ligament or tendon damaged but not severed — and heal best with accurate diagnosis, a structured loading programme and, where healing stalls, ultrasound-guided PRP. Complete tears in the wrong place need a surgeon; Dr. Kiruthika will say which is which at the first visit.
Sudden loads tear muscle fibres; twisting stretches or tears ligaments; repetitive loading outpaces a tendon’s ability to repair. Recovery stalls when the injury is under-diagnosed, the tissue is loaded too early, or the blood supply is poor — tendons and some ligaments heal slowly for this reason.
Examination and ultrasound in the same visit to grade the injury — size of a muscle tear, degree of ligament damage, tendon structure. MRI when a complete tear, bone injury or intra-articular damage is suspected. A return-to-play timeline is set from the grade, not the calendar.
Conditions treated
Hamstring, calf, quadriceps and groin strains, graded one to three. Grades one and two: early protected movement, then progressive loading; ultrasound-guided PRP for large grade-two tears or slow healing. Grade three (complete) tears are referred for surgical opinion.
Ankle, knee (MCL, ACL), thumb and elbow ligaments. Partial tears: bracing, rehabilitation, ultrasound-guided PRP to support healing and stability. Complete tears of key stabilisers in active athletes are referred for reconstruction.
Patellar, Achilles, hamstring, gluteal and elbow tendons that hurt under load. A loading programme is the treatment; PRP when pain persists after twelve weeks of correct loading.
Shin pain, stress reactions and stress fractures from training increases. These need load reduction and bone health assessment, not injection. Imaging confirms; a graded return plan follows.
Recovery is staged — pain-free daily activity, strength symmetry, sport-specific drills, then full play — with criteria at each stage rather than fixed dates. Re-injury is most common when a stage is skipped.
Assessment with ultrasound takes twenty minutes. PRP takes about forty-five minutes including the blood draw, with soreness for two to five days and a temporary reduction in training load.
It can support healing in tissues with poor blood supply — tendons and ligaments — and reduce time lost in slow-healing cases. It does not shortcut the rehabilitation stages.
Brief rest and ice in the first days, then early guided movement. Prolonged rest slows recovery.
Mild pain that settles by the next morning is usually acceptable during a loading programme; pain that worsens overnight means the load is too high.
For suspected complete tears, bone injury or knee ligament injury. Most muscle and tendon injuries are graded fully on ultrasound.
Complete tears of the ACL, Achilles, quadriceps or patellar tendon in active people, and some complete muscle tears.