{"id":2608,"date":"2012-03-19T05:20:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T04:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2012-03-19T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T04:25:09","slug":"shining-a-light-on-tendinopathy-expensive-treatments-vs-established-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2012\/03\/19\/shining-a-light-on-tendinopathy-expensive-treatments-vs-established-therapies\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining a light on tendinopathy: expensive treatments vs established therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By Dr. Bert Fields<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2609\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2609   \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2012\/03\/2209343938_5e1411b12f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"277\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Daniela Hantuchova by Sasho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">As a busy sports medicine physician I see an increasing number of patients pursuing unproven and often expensive treatments before they have tried established therapies with stronger evidence.\u00a0 One example of this is a recent patient who saw advertising for a cold laser that they purchased from an internet site. The patient showed no progress with his tennis elbow until we saw him in the office and gave him a series of eccentric exercises and other standard treatment which quickly started a reversal of his problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>In my opinion marketing and news stories which exaggerate the benefits of unproven therapies are leading patients to make bad choices.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 Particularly for tendon injuries, patients are purchasing unproven devices or seeking injections with substances like platelet rich plasma or stem cells before they have done any established treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related BJSM Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/45\/5\/411.abstract?sid=5eff318b-5103-4c9c-b9e8-7e9b0645a799\" target=\"_blank\">Lotta Willberg,\u00a0Kerstin Sunding,\u00a0Magnus Forssblad,\u00a0Martin Fahlstr\u00f6m,\u00a0H\u00e5kan Alfredson. 2011.\u00a0<strong>Sclerosing polidocanol injections or arthroscopic shaving to treat patellartendinopathy\/jumper&#8217;s knee? 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A pathology model to explain the clinical presentation of load-induced tendinopathy.<\/strong> <em><abbr title=\"British Journal of Sports Medicine\">Br J Sports Med<\/abbr>\u00a02009;43:409-416.<\/em>\u00a0(OVER 12, 000 VIEWS!)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>*****************************************************************<\/div>\n<p><strong>Bert Fields, MD<\/strong> is a professor for the UNC School of Medicine and directs the sports medicine fellowship at Cone Health system in Greensboro, NC.\u00a0 He is a past president of AMSSM.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr. Bert Fields &nbsp; As a busy sports medicine physician I see an increasing number of patients pursuing unproven and often expensive treatments before they have tried established therapies with stronger evidence.\u00a0 One example of this is a recent patient who saw advertising for a cold laser that they purchased from an internet site. 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