Chronic neck pain and whiplash: A case-control study of the relationship between acute whiplash injuries and chronic neck pain
The authors undertook a case-control study of chronic neck pain and whiplash injuries in nine states in the United States to determine whether whiplash injuries contributed significantly to the population of individuals with chronic neck and other spine pain. Four hundred nineteen patients and 246 controls were randomly enrolled. Patients were defined as individuals with […]
Platelet-rich plasma treatment more effective than cortisone for severe hip bursitis
Chronic hip bursitis is a common yet difficult condition to treat successfully. A recent study compared the results of PRP and cortisone injections in patients with severe chronic hip (greater trochanteric) bursitis. In the study, “Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) More Effective than Cortisone for Severe Chronic Hip Bursitis,” 40 patients were selected for the study and […]
Platelet-Rich Plasma Helps Tennis Elbow
Study: PRP Beats Cortisone Shots for Tennis Elbow Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) — the latest, still-controversial treatment for tendon injuries — heals tennis elbow better than corticosteroid shots, a new study suggests. Because they get very little blood, injured tendons heal notoriously slowly. Blood platelets attract healing growth factors, so the idea of PRP is to inject a […]
Treatment of Achilles Tendinopathy with Platelet-Rich Plasma
Non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy commonly impedes the functioning of active persons. Treatment methods vary, as do their results. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of non-insertional Acilles tendinopathy treatment with autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP). Autologous PRP was injected into the affected Achilles tendon of 14 prospectively selected patients (15 Achilles tendons). Before […]
Platelet-Rich Plasma Injection or PRP Injection
Tendon disorders comprise 30% to 50% of all activity-related injuries; chronic degenerative tendon disorders (tendinopathy) occur frequently and are difficult to treat. Tendon regeneration might be improved by injecting platelet-rich plasma (PRP), an increasingly used treatment for releasing growth factors into the degenerative tendon. Objective To examine whether a PRP injection would improve outcome in […]
Use of platelet-rich plasma for the treatment of refractory jumper’s knee
The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of multiple platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections on the healing of chronic refractory patellar tendinopathy after previous classical treatments have failed. We treated 15 patients affected by chronic jumper’s knee, who had failed previous nonsurgical or surgical treatments, with multiple PRP injections and physiotherapy. We also […]
Intra-articular injection of an autologous preparation rich in growth factors for the treatment of knee OA: a retrospective cohort study
ABSTRACT Objective. To obtain preliminary information about the effectiveness of intra-articular injections of an autologous preparation rich in growth factors (PRGF) for knee OA treatment to be explored further in future studies. Methods. We have characterized PRGF treatment by platelet count and concentration of relevant growth factors (TGF-β1, PDGF-AB, VEGF-A; HGF 1, PDGF-AB, VEGF-A; HGF […]
Platelet-rich plasma: New clinical application A pilot study for treatment of jumper’s knee
This study describes a simple, low-cost, minimally invasive way to apply PRP growth factors to chronic patellar tendinosis; 20 male athletes with a mean history of 20.7 months of pain received treatment, and outcomes were prospectively evaluated at 6 months follow-up. No severe adverse events were observed, and statistically significant improvements in all scores were […]
IN STATES WITH MEDICAL MARIJUANA, PAINKILLER DEATHS DROP BY 25%
America has a major problem with prescription pain medications like Vicodin and OxyContin. Overdose deaths from these pharmaceutical opioids have approximately tripled since 1991, and every day 46 people die of such overdoses in the United States. However, in the 13 states that passed laws allowing for the use of medical marijuana between 1999 and […]
The Effects of Prolotherapy Versus Prolozone in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis
The current study shows that prolotherapy with hypertonic dextrose or prolozone (intraarticular ozone injection) can be effectively used in the nonoperative management of patients with KOA. Prolotherapy is an injection therapy for the management of chronic musculoskeletal disorders such as KOA (10). Although prolotherapy is being increasingly used worldwide, its mechanism of action in pain […]