Tendon / ligament repair

Getting back to training after a tendon injury

2 peptides · 2 studies

What people research this for

A sore tendon or strained ligament can keep you out of the gym or off the field for months. People look here hoping to heal faster and get back to training. So far the research has been done almost entirely in animals.

Researched for

Tendon and ligament injuries
Getting back to training
Soft-tissue healing

What the studies say so far

BPC-157 and TB-500 are the two peptides studied most for tendons. Nearly all of that work used animals or cells in a dish, where scientists watched how tendon cells moved and grew and how tissue repaired itself. There are almost no controlled trials in people with tendon injuries. Stories from gym communities about recovery stacks are personal accounts. They are not clinical evidence.

Peptides studied

Each peptide below has been studied in this area. The label shows how far that research has gone.

BPC-157
Early lab and animal research
Animal study · 1 study
Study note. Tendon fibroblast and healing models are common in BPC-157 basic science, human tendon RCTs are lacking.
1. Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 enhances the growth hormone receptor expression in tendon fibroblasts (opens in a new tab)
  Chang CH, Tsai WC, Hsu YH · Molecules · 2014 · PubMed
TB-500
Early lab and animal research
Animal study · 1 study
Study note. Thymosin β4 literature includes tissue repair and cell migration endpoints in animal systems.
1. Myocardial regeneration: expanding the repertoire of thymosin β4 in the ischemic heart (opens in a new tab)
  Smart N, Bollini S, Dubé KN · Ann N Y Acad Sci · 2012 · PubMed

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Peptides studied

BPC-157

TB-500

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