ORTHOPEDICS/SHOULDER & ELBOW/ELBOW DISORDERS
Tennis Elbow/Effective Injections
Tennis elbow is a disorder that causes chronic tendon damage to the tendon on the elbow joint outside.
Numerous alternatives may be used in the tennis elbow therapy. All we do know is that most people will get better with time, whatever the therapy is to eliminate tennis elbow pain.
Most of these alternatives rely on different injections kinds used for the tennis elbow therapy.
The reason of the injections use is that most of the patients are looking for immediate pain relief.
The tendon damage kind is called Tendinosis, usually causes a chronic tendon irritation accompanied with microscopic tears.
When the damaged tendon is examined under a microscope, the tendon is seen to have scratch tissue and blood vessel formation, (proof of a chronic healing procedure).
In the case with tendonitis, what we do appear under the microscope is a proof of the presence of an inflammation, as is.
Cortisone Injections
Cortisone injections often are used for a multiple orthopedic disorders, including tennis elbow.
Cortisone is a dominant anti-inflammatory medicine, that means cortisone helps controlling inflammation.
The cortisone use in tennis elbow therapy has been controversial because generally, tennis elbow is not a tendon inflammation reason; therefore, saying that tennis elbow therapy with a medicine reduces inflammation is argued.
PRP Injections
Recently, PRP injections have become more popular.
PRP is short for “platelet-rich plasma.”
PRP is formed by splitting the blood into various modules.
PRP comprises a high concentration of platelets, regardless the blood that generally comprises growing features.
These growing features are thought to naturally motivate a healing procedure.
Autologous Blood Injections
Autologous blood injections are merely injections of a patient own blood.
Like PRP injection, the use of autologous blood is thought that injections of a patient own blood will motivate the healing response in the affected tendon.
The only difference between autologous blood and PRP is that the autologous injections are not a concentrated blood module.
Which Injection?
Evidence that any one of these previously said injections is better than another is still controversial.
In fact, in a recent research, different injections were compared to saline injections (placebo injections).
Thevarious injections were enclosed and patients was not aware of which solution they were getting. All patients had blood pinched so that they would not know if they were receiving a blood injection.
That means, all of the patients have shown improvement (including the placebo ones), and none of them did meaningfully better than other.
Conclusion
This research reveals that maybe one of the most important needs for the tennis elbow healing is time.
Giving time for a human body to heal seems to be one of the most effective therapy for various medical disorders.
The unique only therapy that should be avoided is PRP injections because these injections types are very expensive without any evidence of being more significant than the others are.