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Abstract
Tennis elbow (latral epicodylitis) is a common problem that causing many symptoms such as pain in lateral aspect of the elbow, restriction of movement and impaired activities of daily life Quick cessation of symptoms is important to patients and is economically advantageous. Many modalities of treatment were prescribed to relieve the symptoms such as rest, nonsteroidal anti-infl ammatory drugs (NSAIDs), bracing, physical therapy and corticosteroid injection. Newer treatment modalities have been tried, such as extracorporeal shock wave treatment, iontophoresis, and injection of botulism toxin One novel treatment strategy is the use of local injection of platelet rich plasma In our study twenty patient with lateral epicondylitis were considered to be injected locally by autologous platelets rich plasma (PRP). They were 13 males and 7 females. The dominant side was affected in 15 patient ( 12 right side and 3 left side ) and only five patient had tennis elbow in the non- dominant side ( 5 patients in The left side) .Patients were evaluated pre and post injection clinically. Disability of arm and shoulder and hand score (DASH), patient rated elbow evaluation (PREE) score and visual analogue scale of pain (VAS) were also evaluated pre and post injection at one ,three and six monthes. patients show improvement over the period of follow up in all outcome measures