What Are the Top 10 Treatments for Tendonitis?

4. PRP Therapy

A recently popularized treatment, PRP therapy or platelet-rich plasma therapy removes the patient's own blood, spins it in a centrifuge to concentrate the healing platelets, then reinjects it into the affected tendon. This injection may help reduce inflammation and speed up tissue healing. Since this treatment is relatively new, its degree of effectiveness is unknown. If the research bears out, doctors hope to use it as an alternative to potentially dangerous corticosteroids, which causes adverse effects in some patients.