The meniscus has notoriously poor blood supply, and most tears — especially degenerative ones — never fully heal on their own. For years, patients with persistent meniscus tears have been told that surgery is the only viable option. But what if we could change the biology inside the knee to make healing possible? As a sports medicine physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, I regularly treat patients who come in for a second opinion after being told they need surgery for a me

Medically reviewed by Dr. Jeffrey Peng, MD — Board-Certified Sports Medicine Physician Last updated: February 28, 2026 Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common and frustrating conditions I see in my sports medicine practice. Many of my patients have already tried stretching, orthotics, night splints, and even steroid injections — only to have their heel pain return weeks or months later. The question I hear most often is whether there is a treatment that can actually heal

Medically reviewed by Dr. Jeffrey Peng, MD — Board-Certified Sports Medicine Physician Published: February 26, 2026 | Last Updated: February 26, 2026 If you have been told to just live with calcific tendonitis — or to keep getting cortisone shots until you are "ready for surgery" — you have probably noticed the pain always comes back. That is because most conventional treatments only mask symptoms without addressing the underlying calcium deposit. The good news is there is a

Medically reviewed by Dr. Jeffrey Peng, MD — Board-Certified Sports Medicine Physician Published: February 26, 2026 | Last Updated: February 26, 2026 Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections have become one of the most promising non-surgical treatments for knee osteoarthritis. However, not every patient experiences the same degree of improvement. In my practice, I have treated thousands of patients with PRP, and while the majority respond well, there are clear patterns in who b

Board-certified sports medicine physician Dr. Jeffrey Peng ranks knee arthritis injections — PRP, hyaluronic acid, cortisone, and stem cells — based on the latest 2025 clinical evidence, safety data, and real-world outcomes.

Board-certified sports medicine physician Dr. Jeffrey Peng explains how ultrasound-guided percutaneous tenotomy with PRP can heal partial rotator cuff tears without surgery — and what the clinical evidence shows.

Osteoarthritis is now recognized as a metabolic disease. Learn the 3-step evidence-based protocol — metabolic health optimization, PRP injection therapy, and targeted exercise — to reduce knee arthritis pain and restore mobility.

Written by Dr. Jeffrey Peng, MD — Board-Certified Sports Medicine Physician PRP can work incredibly well for tendons, joints, and soft-tissue injuries—but a lot of people still get disappointing results. Here’s the pattern I see over and over again: two people get the same PRP injection, from the same doctor, using the same technique—and one improves dramatically while the other barely notices a change. And most of the time, it’s not because the injection was done wrong. What

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People with plantar fasciitis often worry about long-term effects like decreased mobility and chronic foot pain. That’s why new treatments for plantar fasciitis have been developed and these include platelet rich plasma injections as well as extracorporeal shockwave therapy. The purpose of these treatments are to not only reduce pain and symptoms, but to potentially fix the problem and prevent plantar fasciitis from getting worse. But which of these two treatments is better?

Myofascial pain syndrome can cause severe pain and harm people's quality of life. That’s why clinicians are always looking for new and better options to treat this debilitating condition. Prolotherapy has been around for over 70 years and has been used to treat a variety of chronic musculoskeletal conditions. So do prolotherapy trigger point injections help treat myofascial pain syndrome? Two recent clinical trials attempted to answer this question. Myofascial pain syndrome a