Sports medicine physicians are turning to regenerative medicine treatments with increasing frequency to speed up the healing of injured joints or tendons. According to sports medicine expert Lee Mancini, MD, treatments such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection are vital, backed by evidence, and highly effective for treating cases of osteoarthritis in knee joints, as well as damage to tendons and ligaments in areas such as the elbow and knee.
Dr. Mancini, associate professor of family medicine & community health, said that because of growing use of PRP and other regenerative medicine modalities, the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine published a position statement to help physicians evaluate regenerative medicine treatments.
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