Kenyon Martin to Undergo PRP Blood Treatment on Ailing Left Knee

Filed under: Nuggets, NBA Injuries

DENVER -- You've heard Dick Vitale call a player a PTPer.

Ailing Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin is now a PRPer.

The Nuggets released an injury report Monday on Martin, saying he will undergo platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy on his left knee, which the team has said has tendinitis. That's a treatment in which a patient's own blood is injected into an injured area to repair muscle bone and other tissue.

The Nuggets' report gave no timetable for how long Martin will be sidelined other than saying he "is expected to return during the 2009-10 season.''

No Nuggets official had expressed any public fear Martin might be done for the season. Nuggets coach George Karl had been hopeful when speaking Sunday about Martin.

 

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