An alternative medicine approach to joint pain that typically uses injections of sugar or sodium may be worth trying for knee osteoarthritis after traditional approaches fail, a recent review suggests ...

As spring turns into summer, we spend more time outdoors, exercising, gardening, or just walking around. And for many people, more exercise means knee pain. Count me among the afflicted. Several ...

Intra-articular injections of corticosteroids for relief of the pain of hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) may have adverse long-term consequences, researchers suggested. These injections are commonly ...

If you heard that star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown recently got himself an injection in his right knee to help him manage the pain of lingering issues in the joint, we now have confirmation ...

New research shows that corticosteroid injections for knee OA treatment do not hasten a patient's progression to a total knee replacement when compared with hyaluronic acid injections. Details of this ...

"[I]it is difficult to extrapolate what we have observed over longer periods, i.e., 5 or 10 years. Concerning the frequency of injection, the data from Timothy McAlindon (Boston) suggest that we ...

Researchers comparing two injections commonly used to relieve knee pain from osteoarthritis—corticosteroid and hyaluronic acid—found that corticosteroid injections were associated with higher ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of corticosteroid injections did not exacerbate radiographic progression of knee osteoarthritis or ...

After giving birth to a baby, a young woman told her nurses at Boston Medical Center that she was having pain in her hip. That happens sometimes after births, says Ali Guermazi, one of the doctors ...