Sixty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Laporte was diagnosed with knee arthritis 15 years ago. For years, she kept the pain under control with steroid injections and physical therapy, but when she began ...
Osteoarthritis of the knee affects around six million people in the UK and is increasing as the population ages and becomes more obese. Current treatments are limited to pain relief and joint ...
Injections for knee ... the joint. It feels like a flu shot. Most of the time injections are used for both symptomatic relief and therapeutic relief. Symptomatic relief means relief of pain.
This pain may be caused by soft cartilage under the kneecap (patella), referred pain ... underlying tissue or irritation of the synovium (joint lining). Treatment depends on the specific problem ...
Medications like Ozempic and Wegovy, which are used to treat type 2 diabetes and boost weight loss, may also help reduce knee osteoarthritis-related pain in people with obesity, a trial finds.