The Effect of Platelet Rich Plasma on Partial Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-06-06
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Randomized controlled trial examining platelet rich plasma versus corticosteroid injection in partial thickness rotator cuff tears or tendinopathy.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Calgary

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• >18 years

• MRI or US evidence of supraspinatus tendinopathy or partial thickness tearing

• symptomatic for minimum of 3 months

• patient has exhausted a course of adequate conservative treatment (including but not limited to home/out patient physical therapy, oral analgesics, and/or shoulder injections)

Exclusion Criteria:

• prior surgical intervention on affected shoulder

• full thickness rotator cuff tear

• concomitant ipsilateral shoulder pathology (i.e. osteoarthritis, inflammatory arthritis)

• confounding cervical neck pain or radiculopathy

• more than 3 previous CS injections

• a CS injection within 6 months of study intervention

• elite level athlete

• worker's compensation case

• litigation or secondary gain issues

• unwilling or unable to provide informed consent or complete study outcomes