Background The effectiveness of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections for osteoarthritis (OA) is still controversial. We investigated the effect of PRP injections in patients with knee OA based on ...
Biologic therapies, such autologous blood (AB) and platelet rich plasma (PRP) injections, aimed at stimulating healing of degenerative tendons, have shown promise but clinical research is limited.
Injection of autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP; produced by simple blood fractionation and supposedly containing humoral factors that promote healing) into the injured tendon has become popular ...
While there have been numerous theories to explain the benefit of PRP injections, Goldenberg said that the ability of this therapy to prolong the anagen phase of hair growth is now well established.