TB-500 in tendon, ligament and musculoskeletal soft-tissue injury — evidence extract
The Institute's graded assessment of TB-500 for tendon, ligament and musculoskeletal soft-tissue injury, with the contributing trials and the domain-by-domain certainty reasoning.
§1Evidence extract: Tendon, ligament and musculoskeletal soft-tissue injury
§1.1Question and anchor outcome
- Population
- Acute or overuse injury of tendon, ligament or muscle, with healing assessed by imaging, function and return-to-activity endpoints.
- Intervention
- TB-500, subcutaneous or intramuscular in research contexts
- Comparator
- As used in each contributing trial; reported per trial rather than pooled across comparator types
- Anchor outcome
- Time to return to activity
Additional outcomes the Institute extracts for this indication: Pain on loading; Tendon thickness and structure on ultrasound; Re-injury rate.
§1.2Contributing trials
No trial has been identified for TB-500 in tendon, ligament and musculoskeletal soft-tissue injury. The rating below reflects that absence.
§1.3Certainty assessment
Table 2. Reasoning recorded against each certainty domain.
| Domain | Rating | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Risk of bias | No concern | No serious concern identified in this domain. |
| Inconsistency | Serious | Estimates vary in magnitude across contributing trials beyond what chance would produce. |
| Indirectness | No concern | No serious concern identified in this domain. |
| Imprecision | No concern | No serious concern identified in this domain. |
| Publication bias | Very serious | Too few contributing studies for a formal assessment; the risk cannot be excluded. |
| Overall rating: Very low certainty. The Institute has very little confidence in the effect estimate. The true effect is likely to be substantially different from the estimate. In this series a very low rating most often reflects an absence of controlled human evidence rather than conflicting evidence. | ||
§1.4What this extract does not establish
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