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New biologic treatment for tennis elbow may replace surgery for chronic sufferers
10-23-2006 · EurekAlert!"Tennis elbow" isn't restricted to tennis players; it's a common, chronic problem for people whose activities require strong gripping or repetitive wrist motions. A novel biologic treatment of injecting the patient's own platelets into the affected tendon proves successful and gives patients another treatment option before undergoing surgery. The procedure has wide application for healing of other medical conditions, say researchers from Stanford University.
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