Abstract
Background: In routine practice tennis elbow or lateral epicondylitis is commonly encountered enthesopathy, which disturbs the activity of daily life and it not only effects sports personnel but in our society major chunk of patients affected by it are house wife’s and manual workers, so an effective low-cost treatment modality is need of the hour. Autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) hastens the healing of angiofibroblastic degeneration in lateral epicondylitis by providing humoral modulators and array of different growth factors favours its use to treat enthesopathies.
Keywords: Lateral epicondylitis, Elbow, Platelet rich plasma (PRP).
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Corresponding Author
Dr Rahmat Ali (Ms (Ortho), MCh (Ortho) )
Professor and H.O.D (Ortho department), Maharishi Vashishtha Autonomous State Medical College, Basti, UP, India
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v9i11.36
