Tennis elbow not relieved by PRP injections: Cochrane
Moderate-certainty evidence suggests the therapy is no better than placebo, reviewers say
Autologous blood injections and platelet‐rich plasma injections probably have little or no effect on tennis elbow, a Cochrane review concludes.
The Australian-led review of 32 studies with more than 2300 participants has found the treatments are associated with only a 1.6% improvement in pain.
Pooled data from eight trials showed that, three months after intervention, mean pain scores on a 10-point scale (where zero was best) was 3.7 points with placebo and 0.16 points better with autologous blood or platelet‐rich plasma (PRP) injection, a non-significant improvement.
