Muhammad Khalid Khan, Samir Khan Kabir, Sikander Hayat.
Effectiveness of Autologous Blood Injection in Patients with Lateral Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow).
Ophthalmol Update Jan ;12(2):159-63.

Introduction: Lateral epicondylitis is a painful musculoskeletal condition. Autologous blood injection is one of the conservative treatments with the concept that it provides the necessary cellular and humoral mediators to induce a healing cascade. Objective: To determine the effectiveness of autologous blood injection in patients with lateral epicondylitis. Material and Methods: This descriptive cross sectional study was carried out at Department of Orthopedics and Trauma, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar from September, 2012 to August, 2013 recruiting 54 patients from OPD. Lateral epicondyl was infiltrated with 2 ml of autologous blood mixed with 2ml of Xylocaine 2%. Effectiveness of autologous blood injection was determined in terms of improvement in at least one grade of pain on Visual Analogue Scale at 12 weeks follow up. Data was entered in software SPSS version10.0. Results: There were 22 (40.74%) males and 32 (59.26%) females. At 12 weeks follow up, the overall effectiveness of ABI was in 41 (75.92%) patients. The baseline grade of pain by VAS before autologous blood injection was moderate in 24 (44.44%) patients and severe in 30 (55.56%) patients. After ABI, 19 (35.18%) patients improved from moderate pain to no pain and mild pain (Grade 0 &1) while 22 (40.74%) patients with severe pain (Grade 3) showed improvement to no pain (grade 0), mild and moderate pain (Grade 1 and 2). Conclusion: Autologous blood injection is very effective to control the pain of Lateral epicondylitis as evident by the decrease in the baseline grades of VAS at 12 weeks follow up.

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