Williams uses PRP therapy to resolve hamstring issue
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Jordan Williams hopes his hamstring problems are behind him after enduring an injury-blighted first season at Fratton Park.
The 25-year-old right-back moved to Portsmouth last summer after leaving Barnsley but three separate hamstring injuries restricted him to just 20 Championship appearances in his first season.
Williams missed eight games with a hamstring tear either side of Christmas and after just three games back, suffered another which ruled him out of the next 10 matches.
He returned to make four starts in April but missed out on the final two matches after limping off with a third hamstring injury in the win over Watford on 21 April, after which he underwent platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatment to tackle the issue.
After starting Pompey's opening two matches of the new season, Williams told BBC Radio Solent: "It's good to be back, hopefully the injuries are behind me and I can keep playing football and enjoying it."
Explaining the PRP procedure, he said: "You can't feel the benefit of it but you can visualise it as gluing it back together basically and, touch wood, so far it's felt alright and hopefully it can carry on.
"It's taking the good blood cells out of your blood, spinning them and putting them back into the muscle or the tendon that's been injured. It acts like a bit of a gel to put them back together and make them stronger.
"It repairs fully anyway, naturally, without even having that, but that's meant to make it even stronger so we went down that route and hopefully it has done that so far."