Platelet-rich plasma injection reduces pain in patients with recalcitrant epicondylitis

Orthopedics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Hechtman, Keith S ^a   Uribe, John W ^a   Botto vanDemden, Angie ^a   Kiebzak, Gary M ^a  

^a UHZ Sports Medicine Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELBOW FLEXION; EPICONDYLITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT STABILITY; MALE; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RANGE OF MOTION; SELF EVALUATION; STRETCHING EXERCISE; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ARTHRALGIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; INTRAARTICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RADIOGRAPHY; TENNIS ELBOW; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ARTHRALGIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; TENNIS ELBOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952463618     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20101221-05     Document Type: Article

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