Ultrasound Guided Injections

What are ultrasound-guided joint injections?

 

Ultrasound-guided joint injections are a minimally invasive treatment for joint pain or stiffness. To get the medication or healing substance into the correct area of your painful joint without causing any additional damage.

 

Ultrasound is a common and safe imaging technique that uses sound waves to produce an image. This is in contrast to X-rays and similar imaging procedures that use radiation. The sound waves reflect off your organs and tissues to produce a real-time picture on a screen. Your provider uses this imaging technique as she injects your joints. 

 

While ultrasound-guided joint injections provide substantial relief on their own for many patients, you may need to continue taking part in a well-rounded care plan to help your joint heal to the best possible degree. This might involve physical therapy or oral medications. 

 

What’s in ultrasound-guided joint injections?

 

Multiple types of medication can be involved in an ultrasound-guided joint injection. One of the most popular substances for joint injections at Glow Maven Health is platelet-rich plasma (PRP). It’s a healing substance that comes from your blood, not a medication. Still, it enhances or kickstarts the natural healing process that your body is already capable of. 

 

PRP is also full of growth factors, which help stimulate the healing process of damaged tissues, such as those in a painful joint. 

 

Other ultrasound-guided joint injections may contain other components such as corticosteroid medications to lower inflammation. Some also contain lidocaine or other forms of local anesthesia for immediate numbing. 

 

Who can benefit from ultrasound-guided joint injections?

 

There are a few reasons why you might consider getting ultrasound-guided joint injections at Glow Maven Health. Joint injuries and arthritis can both result in long-term joint dysfunction, which includes symptoms like:

• Stiffness
• Swelling
• Pain
• Warmth

These symptoms can appear in any joint. Joint injections are applicable for pain or stiffness of the hips, knees, shoulders, elbows, wrists, and other joints. 

 

Joint injections can improve your quality of daily movement. Learn more about ultrasound-guided joint injections with a consultation, which you can schedule over the phone or online at Glow Maven Health today.