Fifty five million adults across America live with joint pain from arthritis. It can be debilitating and make staying active impossible. Injections can be an excellent treatment that reduces inflammation and pain in your joints. Injections can offer fewer symptoms over several months, allowing you to enjoy your active lifestyle. Joint pain from arthritis can affect many joints in the body from the foot, spine, shoulder, knees, and hips. Thanks to advances in modern medicine, we have many options to treat these arthritic areas.
Cell-based therapies, such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP), stem cells or orthobiologics, and corticosteroid injections, have shown benefits in reducing pain and improving function in patients with chronic arthritis. Taking time to understand each patient's specific issue and creating a plan using injectables, activity modifications, and exercise can make the individual live with less pain and get active once again.
Corticosteroid injections (cortisone) - can delay the need for surgery by providing the patient with chronic arthritis relief from the pain and stiffness.
Platelet-Rich Plasma ( PRP) - Platelets contain powerful transforming growth factors that stimulate tissue healing and can produce and signal local stem cells to reduce inflammation.
Joint injections are intended to reduce pain symptoms from arthritis. Patients can participate in physical therapy exercises and everyday activities to stretch and strengthen the arthritic joint. Diet and exercise are essential strategies in keeping your joints as healthy as possible with injections, many patients find that exercise is possible again.
Injections for arthritis often leave the patient feeling remarkably less pain, better mobility, and limited side effects. Most injections are quick and easy to perform. A healthcare professional will carry them out in hospitals, clinics, or doctors' surgeries. Most people have steroid injections without any side effects. Get back to living your active and busy life. Talk with the doctors at Hinsdale Orthopaedics today.
Author: Dr. Jeffrey S. Staron is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who is fellowship trained in sports medicine. Dr. Staron provides comprehensive care for the musculoskeletal system treating acute injuries and chronic joint pain in Munster, Indiana.