Injections could help heal heels.
- 9 December 2015 - 11:33 AM
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CSP members are working on an innovative treatment for heel pain, which affects 150,000 people a year and can cause difficulty in walking.
Dr Rebecca Kearney, clinical lecturer at the University of Warwick, is recruiting patients with Achilles tendinopathy for a randomised controlled trial starting in the new year, funded by Arthritis Research UK (ISRCTN: 13254422).
At Oxford University, Dr David Keene will study patients with Achilles tendon ruptures (www.path2study.org), funded by the MRC/National Institute for Health Research partnership.
In each trial, patients will receive injections of platelet rich plasma taken from their own blood and containing growth factors that could stimulate tendon repair. A control group will receive placebo injections.
For more information, contact R.S.Kearney@warwick.ac.uk or david.keene@ndorms.ox.ac.uk
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