Novel Tendon Shots Offered No Benefit over Exercise

An experimental drug-and-exercise therapy for chronic Achilles tendinopathy didn’t work in a Dutch study, researchers said.

Injections of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) combined with eccentric exercise gave no better results than exercise alone, according to Robert de Vos, MD, of Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, and colleagues.

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