We are the Amsterdam Collaboration on Health & Safety in Sports (ACHSS). An initiative that brings together, within the Amsterdam UMC, two Dutch leading academic groups on research and clinical practice of athlete health protection. The ACHSS initiative is one of the 11 IOC Research Centers for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health.
Through this website we will keep you updated on our own research and others' who deal with these topics.
PRIMA Trail
An injection into the ankle joint with Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) does not work better in ankle osteoarthritis than an injection with saline. This is the main conclusion from a multicenter RCT initiated and coordinated at the Amsterdam UMC. The results were published Oct. 26th 2021, in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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