{"id":568,"date":"2010-11-15T18:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T17:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=568"},"modified":"2010-11-18T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T13:21:23","slug":"the-prp-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2010\/11\/15\/the-prp-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"The PRP debate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-572\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2010\/11\/15\/the-prp-debate\/archilles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-572   alignleft\" title=\"archilles\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2010\/11\/archilles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Achilles Tendinopathy is a major clinical problem.<\/p>\n<p>Injections with Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) improve tissue repair and tendon structure. PRP also\u00a0increases blood supply to the tendon collagen tissue by stimulating blood vessels to grow.<\/p>\n<p>But, what does this mean for patients with Achilles Tendinopathy? What\u00a0are the functional outcomes: Does it restore the tendon to its pre-injury strength? Can they run faster, jump higher? Or is an exercise programme just as effective?<\/p>\n<p>de Vos and team looked at this issue in detail. With their randomized control trial, the effect of PRP and eccentric exercises on the Archilles\u00a0tendon\u00a0are evaluated using ultrasound techniques.<\/p>\n<p>How do\u00a0the\u00a0current findings\u00a0influence our practice?<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2010\/11\/01\/bjsm.2010.076398.full\" target=\"_blank\">their paper in BJSM Online First <\/a>to find out more.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Achilles Tendinopathy is a major clinical problem. Injections with Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) improve tissue repair and tendon structure. PRP also\u00a0increases blood supply to the tendon collagen tissue by stimulating blood vessels to grow. But, what does this mean for patients with Achilles Tendinopathy? What\u00a0are the functional outcomes: Does it restore the tendon to its pre-injury [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2010\/11\/15\/the-prp-debate\/\">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":[173,317],"tags":[1860,1861,1863,1862,1859,1318,8263],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debates","category-research","tag-archilles-tendon","tag-de-vos","tag-exercises","tag-netherlands","tag-platelet-rich-plasma","tag-prp","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","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=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}