Treatment of tennis elbow with platelet- rich- plasma.

Iskandar Mahdi  saleh al-ardi

doi:10.28922/qmj.2019.15.2.53-56

المؤلفون

Iskandar Mahdi saleh al-ardi Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Al-Qadisiyiah, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.28922/qmj.2019.15.2.53-56

الكلمات المفتاحية:

PRP، tennis elbow، lateral epicondylitis، local injection

الملخص

platelet-rich-plasma is increasingly used in tennis elbow. This study show the clinical outcomes of a single PRP injection .our study was done between Dec. 2015 and Oct. 2016, platelet-rich–plasma was administrated to thirty patients. All subjects underwent prospective clinical evaluation, including visual analog scale (VAS) for pain for six month follow up .most of the patient (VAS) significantly improve from (p > 0.05) after injection with platelet-rich –plasma .so as the result show the PRP injections in tennis elbow showed better improvement in outcomes .