Platelet injections don’t speed hamstring repair: study

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Platelet injections don’t speed hamstring repair: study

In tests of 80 competitive and recreational athletes, the patients who received the injections resumed their activity just as quickly as athletes who got placebo injections instead. "For our clinic, in our practice, we don't use this treatment for muscle injuries anymore because the evidence shows there's no benefit," chief author Dr. Gustaaf Reurink of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, told Reuters Health. "I'd hate for people to throw the baby out with the bathwater here," said Dr. Michael Terry, an orthopedic surgeon at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He asserted that the technique "works for recurrent or chronic muscle injuries.

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