What joint injections are available?

Once other conservative measures such as icing, physical therapy, ‘anti-inflammatories’ and Tylenol stop working, the next line of treatment often times will involve corticosteroid injections. It is where we in the office insert a small needle into someone’s knee and inject usually 4 or 5 cc’s a very small amount of steroid into the knee. It typically causes very little discomfort to the patient and the results are almost immediate. Other types of injections involve Hyaluronic acid typically people know it as Synvisc because Synvisc was one of the first ones on the market. But, there’s other varieties of Hyaluronic acid.

We usually start with steroids they seem to be just as effective most cases and cost a lot less depending on the relief of the steroid injection often times will or can lead us to injection of the Hyaluronic acid.