Corticosteroid and platelet-rich plasma injection therapy in tennis elbow (lateral epicondylalgia): a survey of current UK specialist practice and a call for clinical guidelines.

CONCLUSIONS: Recent high-quality evidence that corticosteroids may delay recovery in tennis elbow appears to have had a limited effect on current practice. Treatment is not uniform among specialists and a proportion of them use platelet-rich plasma injections. PMID: 24195919 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24195919?dopt=Abstract

Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine - November 6, 2013 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Titchener AG, Booker SJ, Bhamber NS, Tambe AA, Clark DI Tags: Br J Sports Med Source Type: research

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