{"id":396,"date":"2015-09-03T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stadiasportsmedicine.com\/info\/?p=396"},"modified":"2017-09-26T14:36:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:36:47","slug":"prp-vs-steroid-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stadiasportsmedicine.com\/info\/2015\/prp-vs-steroid-injection\/","title":{"rendered":"PRP; A Two-Year Outlook vs. Steroid Injection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-Year Follow-up of Injection with Platelet-Rich Plasma Versus Corticosteroid for Lateral Epicondylitis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why you should pay attention to this<\/span><\/em>:\u00a0\u00a0 This study followed up an earlier trial from 2010 that had shown clinical improvements in patients with tennis elbow treated with Platelet-Rich<\/p>\n

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Plasma (PRP) over patients treated with steroid injection.\u00a0 It again assessed patient elbow pain and function two years\u2019 out from treatment.\u00a0 Differences between the steroid and PRP groups continued to become more pronounced, with deterioration in both pain and function in the steroid group relative to the PRP group.\u00a0 Patients who were treated with PRP had better maintenance of improvements.\u00a0 In addition, patients in the steroid group were allowed to cross over to the PRP group at one year, and these patients, as a group, had improved their pain and function scores as well.<\/p>\n

This study does suffer from lack of a control group with no treatment.\u00a0 This is potentially important, since the natural history of tennis elbow is for recovery 80% of the time within one year, even without specific treatment.\u00a0 The deterioration of pain and function in patients treated with steroid in comparison with patients who received PRP could indicate that PRP is really a beneficial treatment, or that steroid injection actually results in worse patient outcomes relative to the natural history of this problem.\u00a0 The improvement in patients in the cross-over phase would suggest the former.<\/p>\n

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