Does platelet-rich plasma improve patellar tendinopathy symptoms?
IT'S UNCLEAR. High-quality data have not consistently established the effectiveness of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections to improve symptomatic recovery in patellar tendinopathy, compared to placebo (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, based on 3 small randomized controlled trials [RCTs])....
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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NLM (Medline)
2022
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Online Access: | View Fulltext in Publisher |
Summary: | IT'S UNCLEAR. High-quality data have not consistently established the effectiveness of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections to improve symptomatic recovery in patellar tendinopathy, compared to placebo (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, based on 3 small randomized controlled trials [RCTs]). The 3 small RCTs included only 111 patients, total. One found no evidence of significant improvement with PRP compared to controls. The other 2 studies showed mixed results, with different outcome measures favoring different treatment groups and heterogeneous results depending on follow-up duration. |
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ISBN: | 15337294 (ISSN) |
DOI: | 10.12788/jfp.0402 |