{"id":15,"date":"2008-03-09T23:06:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T23:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2008\/03\/09\/reader-question-nitro-patches-for-tendinopathy\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T23:06:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T23:06:17","slug":"reader-question-nitro-patches-for-tendinopathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2008\/03\/09\/reader-question-nitro-patches-for-tendinopathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader Question: Nitro Patches for Tendinopathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Reader of the BJSM Blog Asks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nitro Patches for Tendinopathy?<\/p>\n<p>I am quite intrigued by this, not only as a physician but more so as a patient with some current injuries.  Would you be so kind as to reply with a source that might describe the mechanis(s) of action as well as a link or two to get more detail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although the precise mechanism is not known, cell culture studies suggest that Nitric Oxide (NO) has a direct stimulating effect on collagen synthesis. For a background to the discussion and direction to the clinical papers on the effectiveness of nitro patches, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/sites\/entrez?Db=pubmed&amp;Cmd=Search&amp;Term=%22Murrell%20GA%22%5BAuthor%5D&amp;itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlusDrugs1\">Dr Murrell&#8217;s summary in the BJSM Tendinopathy Issue (April 2007).<\/a><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Reader of the BJSM Blog Asks: Nitro Patches for Tendinopathy? I am quite intrigued by this, not only as a physician but more so as a patient with some current injuries. Would you be so kind as to reply with a source that might describe the mechanis(s) of action as well as a link [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2008\/03\/09\/reader-question-nitro-patches-for-tendinopathy\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reader-reply"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}