KNEE INJECTION BIRMINGHAM

Knee pain injection treatment Birmingham

TREATMENT FOR KNEE PAIN

Musculoskeletal Pain & Injury

WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF KNEE PAIN?

Knee pain is an extremely common musculoskeletal compliant and can be due to many different reasons. Knee pain can be due to an acute injury or often caused by degenerative changes. Knee injuries can often be related to sport, exercise or an accident/trauma. Whereas, age-related degenerative changes are often related to progressive wear and degradation of the joint cartilage. Furthermore, knee pain can often commonly be related to overuse. When muscles, tendons and ligaments become repetitively overworked or overstretched they can be subject to micro-trauma and irritation. Over a period of time, repeated irritation of the knee joint and the surrounding soft tissues can consequently lead to inflammation and pain, making everyday activities very difficult.

COMMON TYPES OF KNEE PAIN & INJURY

ACL/PCL ligament injury
MCL/PCL ligament injury
Meniscus tear
Osteoarthritis
Cartilage damage
Patella tendinitis
Knee bursitis
Inflammatory arthritis

COMMON CAUSES OF KNEE PAIN

Trauma
Sports injury
Overuse
Poor mobility
Genetic predisposition

Pain and Injury Treatment

Arthritis Pain and Treatment

KNEE PAIN TREATMENT

Conservative treatment for knee pain - Osteopathy & Physiotherapy

Stretching - stretching and massage of the local muscles can help to take some of the pressure off the irritated tissues
Rest - patients are advised to reduce activities that put stress on the joint and tendons like running or repetitive activities
Knee support - a support can sometimes be effective when performing certain activities
Taping/acupuncture/dry needling - has been shown to reduce pain, and a number of different taping techniques to support
Manipulation - breaking down scar tissue and joint manipulations
Strengthening - appropriate strengthening and dynamic stability exercises

KNEE INJECTION TREATMENT

Due to modern living, sometimes knee, ligament injuries and tendinitis can turn into chronic pain. If this is the case then other modes of treatment are also available. Injection therapy for knee pain and injury is also commonly used to treat the stubborn condition and can deliver good success in many cases. Injection therapies often involve steroid injections and/or platelet rich plasma (PRP) injections.

Cortisone injections (steroid injection)

Knee pain suffers who have not responded well to conservative treatments may be advised to have a cortisone injection to reduce inflammation and pain. The factors to consider if one is thinking about having a steroid injection is that often (if successful) steroid injections for pain can be short-lived and may have an overall degenerative effect on the local tissue if repeated. Although they can be good for inflammation, cortisone injections are not used for knee tendons due to weakening tissue, putting it at an increased risk for rupture (tear), if repeated too often.

Platelet rich plasma (PRP) injections

Becoming increasing more popular, platelet rich plasma (PRP) treatment is a natural treatment commonly used in musculoskeletal practice and sports medicine that uses platelets from the patient’s blood to promote and facilitate healing in damaged tissue. Increased data from evidence-based clinical studies are increasingly showing that PRP injections are not only safe and effective for the treatment of knee pain and injury, but also have improved benefits over cortisone, particularly for long term progress.

PRP Injection Treatment

Pain & Injury Treatment

Cortisone Injection

WHY CHOOSE DYNAMIC?

In the area of musculoskeletal practice, we are incredibly proud to say we are one of the UK’s leading providers of popular regenerative treatments like hyaluronic acid injections and advanced PRP treatment, along with musculoskeletal pain injections, and have been providing these fantastic treatments with ongoing success for over 10 years, providing many 1000's of treatments. This is manly due to our reputation and being centrally based within the UK. We are extremely proud of the huge help and support this has provided to so many people.

Our Clinic Director and Clinical Scientist Mr Adam Whatley is very passionate on musculoskeletal research and is continuing with ongoing clinical research in this exciting area, and to offer the best level of clinical practice to all patients. Cortisone injections have been ongoingly praised for being very effective for pain relief. Risks and adverse complications associated with musculoskeletal injections are very minimal.