At PSC, we’re proud to offer a variety of different ultrasound-guided corticosteroid injections. After thorough clinical assessment, these types of injections are commonly used anti-inflammatory medications delivered directly to the structure causing your pain.
Often called ‘steroid’ or ‘cortisone’ injections, they are valuable procedures for managing musculoskeletal conditions.
Corticosteroid injections can be intraarticular, periarticular, or around soft tissue structures such as bursae or nerves to relieve pain, reduce inflammation, improve mobility and recruit muscles to better rehab.
Injections can also provide diagnostic information and are frequently used for postoperative or chronic limb pain control.
We can combine local anaesthetics with corticosteroids to provide additional, rapid pain relief, or hyaluronic acid to both control pain and improve lubrication (something called viscosupplementation).
Cases that can benefit from Steroid Injections:
- Wrist: (de Quervain’s and intersection syndrome) in tenosynovitis or carpal tunnel syndrome
- Elbow epicondylitis (tennis and golfer’s elbow)
- Shoulder (rotator cuff syndrome, subacromial pain syndrome, impingement)
- Hip (with lateral trochanteric bursitis)
- Osteoarthritis (of many joints, thumb, shoulder, knee, etc, often combined with vicsocupplementation)
- Rheumatoid arthritis (eg intrarticular shoulder injections)
- Crystal arthropathies (eg Gout, pseudogout)
Complications from steroid injections are rare and our clinicians will discuss the benefit versus the minimal risk openly with you.
Patients with diabetes who receive periarticular or soft tissue steroid injections should closely monitor their blood glucose for two weeks following injection as they can effect glucose control temporarily.
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