The Effects Of Intraarticular Platelet Rich Plasma versus Steroid Injection In Meniscal Injuries- A Randomized Controlled Trial

A randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effect of intraarticular platelet rich plasma injection versus intraarticular triamcinolone acetonide injection on pain relief and functional outcomes in adult males with meniscal injuries

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Phase 2

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12614001016628

Acronym

nil

Enrollment

Registered

2014-09-22

Start date

2014-07-07

Completion date

2015-01-07

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This interventional study is meant to see the efficacy of platelet rich plasma therapy in meniscal injuries. As the meniscal injuries are quite common among the sportsmen and active service military personnel, which results in lingering pain and functional limitations so this study is carried out to compare the short term functional outcomes after PRP and steroid injections.

Interventions

Two intraarticular knee injection of 3 ml of platelet rich plasma will be given 2 weeks apart in total. Platelet rich plasma will be obtained from patient's own blood. 30 ml of venous blood will be taken from the patient, which will yield 3 ml of Platelet rich plasma.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Blinded (masking used) (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

Male

Age

18 Years to 40 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age more than 18 yrs, knee pain lasting more than 3 months, History of twisting injury to knee, Clinical and MRI evidence of meniscal injuries

Exclusion criteria

Other Intraarticular knee injections in last 3 months

Outcome results