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Patient Back to Work after PRP for Tennis Elbow

Date posted: 2/6/2018

Last updated: 3/7/2018

February 6, 2018


Bill Belmonte owns and operates a busy furniture refinishing business in suburban Chicago. Because he does much of the work himself, a working, pain-free elbow is critical to his livelihood. When lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) affected his work, he sought advice from Dr. Nikhil Verma at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush. Dr. Verma suggested he try platelet rich plasma injections (PRP) to reduce the inflammation and ideally alleviate the pain. Read Bill's full story here.