Patient's Own Blood Cells Treat Tennis Elbow

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"Your body has a tremendous ability to heal itself," Mishra said. Based on these results, Mishra is conducting a larger trial involving 240 patients.

"We have a long way to go," he said. "But this has the potential to be a safe and effective way to treat chronic and severe tendonitis."

One expert thinks this treatment will become the standard way of treating severe tendonitis.

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"I think it works," said Dr. Michael A. Scarpone, medical director of Riverside Sports Fitness and Rehabilitation Center in Ohio and a team physician for the Pittsburgh Pirates. "It's probably the way we are going to treat people in the future."

Scarpone said one of the advantages of the technique is that it is safe and minimally invasive. In fact, he is using it to treat torn rotator cuffs and has used it on well over 100 patients.

For most people, this method will probably be used when other treatments fail, Scarpone noted. "But in the sports world, it is being used in the acute phase," he said. In addition, the technique has also been used in combination with other therapies such as surgery, he noted.

"There are answers now, especially for tendon and ligament problems," Scarpone said. "You will see it used more for tendons and ligaments that won't heal."

More information

The U.S. National Library of Medicine can tell you more about tennis elbow (www.nlm.nih.gov ).

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