At Summit Medical Care Center our nurse practitioner and chiropractors in Broomfield specializes in a drug-free holistic approach to your pain and treatment. Do you suffer from knee pain? Join the 30 million people who do. Knee pain can be a crippling condition putting a damper on your normal daily living. Depending on the depth of your knee pain, when the pain pills stop working knee joint injections may be an option for pain relief. Question is do they really work?
What Are Knee Injections Exactly?
A knee injections goal is to help fill in the fluids lost in the knee joint to help provide better lubrication on the joint, which in part then eases pain and helps increase mobility. Knee injections typically last for months before you will need another injection. There are a variety of knee injection types, including familiar corticosteroid injections to the new possible PRP injections. PRP injections use the patient’s own blood, and then increase its platelets over 5 to 10 times, before finally being injected back into the knee which is said to help increase healing to damaged knee tissue. Your medical practitioner will go over them with you to find the right style of injection that will benefit your condition the most. There mild side effects for each type of injection so it is important to inform your medical practitioner of any irritation.
How Effective Are They?
The answer is it all depends on your type of knee pain. Hyaluronic acid knee injections have been proven to be highly effective in those with osteoarthritis.
Schedule an Appointment Today!
Thinking about knee injections as a new pain relief option? Come talk to one of our integrated medicine staff members today. We at Summit Medical Care Center in Broomfield focus on you as a whole person, not just where your pain is at. Visit our warm environment that lets you know our mission is providing you the best of care. You can schedule an appointment with us by calling 303-466-3232 today!