作者
David Rabago, Thomas M Best, Aleksandra E Zgierska, Eva Zeisig, Michael Ryan, David Crane
发表日期
2009/7/1
期刊
British journal of sports medicine
卷号
43
期号
7
页码范围
471-481
出版商
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
简介
Objective
To appraise existing evidence for prolotherapy, polidocanol, autologous whole blood and platelet-rich plasma injection therapies for lateral epicondylosis (LE).
Design
Systematic review.
Data sources
Medline, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Allied and Complementary Medicine. Search strategy: names and descriptors of the therapies and LE.
Study Selection
All human studies assessing the four therapies for LE.
Main results
Results of five prospective case series and four controlled trials (three prolotherapy, two polidocanol, three autologous whole blood and one platelet-rich plasma) suggest each of the four therapies is effective for LE. In follow-up periods ranging from 9 to 108 weeks, studies reported sustained, statistically significant (p<0.05) improvement in visual analogue scale primary outcome pain score measures and disease-specific questionnaires; relative effect …
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