The biology of platelet-rich plasma and its application in trauma and orthopaedic surgery: a review of the literature.

By J. Alsousou, M. Thompson, P. Hulley, A. Noble, K. Willett. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-british Volume, 2009

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Bone regeneration: current concepts and future directions (2011, background): “One current approach to enhance bone regeneration and soft-tissue healing by local application of growth factors is the use of platelet-rich plasma, a volume of the plasma fraction of autologous blood with platelet concentrations above baseline, which is rich in many of the aforementioned molecules ”
Platelet-Rich Plasma (2009, positive): “More recently, PRP’s role in muscle and tendon healing has been investigated within the orthopaedic literature and its use is becoming more familiar to the general public.(5) A February 2009 article in The New York Times raised the public awareness of PRP by detailing the use of PRP to treat an inju”
Platelet-rich plasma injection for chronic Achilles tendinopathy: a randomized controlled trial. (2010, background): “Although we are unaware of published data on the prevalence of use of this therapy, 2 recent reviews have suggested that PRP injections for tendinopathy are increasingly used in the clinical setting.(13,14) The goal of our double-blind, blockrandomized, placebo-controlled trial, the first to our kno”