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A sports medicine physician performing an ultrasound-guided injection into a patient's elbow in a clinic examination room

Joints & Recovery · 8 min · Lazlo Fontaine

PRP for Tendon Injuries: A Tendon-by-Tendon Map of Where the Evidence Is Strong and Where It Collapses

PRP is sold as one treatment for tendon pain, but the research does not behave that way. The evidence for tennis elbow and the evidence for Achilles tendinopathy point in genuinely opposite directions, and no clinic menu tells you that.

July 25, 2026

Clinician's gloved hands supporting a patient's bare heel on an exam table while an ultrasound probe rests against the arch of the foot, with a syringe of golden platelet-rich plasma on the tray nearby

Joints & Recovery · 7 min · Jefferson Aluko

PRP for plantar fasciitis and Achilles tendon pain

Heel pain that has outlasted stretching, orthotics, and cortisone is the classic PRP candidate. The evidence is genuinely encouraging in the foot and far more mixed in the Achilles.

July 22, 2026

Joints & Recovery · 5 min · Kerensa Molyneux

PRP recovery: what to expect after a session

Downtime is short, but the days around your appointment shape the result more than people realize.

March 28, 2026

Joints & Recovery · 7 min · Jefferson Aluko

PRP for knees, joints, and arthritis

Orthobiologics promise to delay surgery. Here is where the science is genuinely promising and where it is still thin.

December 26, 2025