# Non-Surgical Treatment for Rotator-Cuff Tears Using Platelet-Rich-Plasma

> **NCT02246530** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **University of Alabama at Birmingham** · enrollment: 11 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Partial Tear of Rotator Cuff
- Tendinopathy of Rotator Cuff

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** PRP injection into PTRCT
- **DRUG:** Subacromial steroid bursal injection

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02246530
- **Lead sponsor:** University of Alabama at Birmingham
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2014-07
- **Primary completion:** 2021-01
- **Final completion:** 2021-03
- **Target enrollment:** 11 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Study terminated prematurely due to inability to complete recruitment of subjects for each of the trial groups (treatment and control).
- **Last updated:** 2022-05-16


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02246530

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02246530, "Non-Surgical Treatment for Rotator-Cuff Tears Using Platelet-Rich-Plasma". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-02 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02246530. Licensed CC0.

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