Table 4.

Ability to return to sport at six month follow-up in patients with mid-portion Achilles tendinopathy according to allocation to autologous blood injections (treatment) or dry needling (control). Figures are numbers (percentage) of participants

	Treatment (n=25)	Control (n=25)
Not normally active in sport	7 (28)	1 (4)
No return to sport	1 (4)	1 (4)
Returned to sport, but not in desired sport	1 (4)	4 (16)
Returned to desired sport, but not to pre-injury level	3 (12)	10 (40)
Returned to pre-injury level in desired sport	13 (52)	9 (36)