Treatment of Chronic Tendinopathy with Ultrasound-Guided Needle Tenotomy and Platelet-Rich Plasma Injection

PM and R

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 900-911

  Finnoff, Jonathan T ^a   Fowler, Steven P ^a   Lai, Jim K ^a   Santrach, Paula J ^a   Willis, Elaine A ^a   Sayeed, Yusef A ^a   Smith, Jay ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CALCIFICATION; CHRONIC RECALCITRANT TENDINOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; NEEDLE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATELLA TENDON; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCUTANEOUS NEEDLE TENOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPORTS MEDICINE; TENDINITIS; TENOTOMY; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TIBIALIS POSTERIOR MUSCLE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; ULTRASOUND SURGERY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; INJECTION; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; TENDON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; OUTPATIENTS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TENDINOPATHY; TENDONS; TENOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863684240     PISSN: 19341482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2011.05.015     Document Type: Article

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