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 ...

The common practice of treating knee pain with corticosteroid injections may actually help speed up the progression of arthritis, two studies have found. But injections of hyaluronic acid — a steroid- ...

An experimental inhibitor regrew cartilage in aged mice, opening up an alternative to arthritis and prosthetics.

Share on Pinterest Corticosteroid injections may not always be the best solution for all arthritis patients. Gordon Schirmer/EyeEm/Stocksy Two independent studies investigated the effect of ...

Injections of platelet-rich plasma are no better than placebo for helping reduce knee pain in people with knee joint osteoarthritis, an Australian clinical trial led by researchers at the University ...

Steroid injections, which are often used to treat pain in knee osteoarthritis (KOA), may actually make arthritis worse, according to two new studies comparing steroid injections with hyaluronic acid, ...

CHICAGO – Two studies comparing injections commonly used to relieve the pain of knee osteoarthritis found that corticosteroid injections were associated with the progression of the disease. Results of ...

Platelet-rich plasma injections did not significantly improve knee osteoarthritis pain symptoms or joint structure compared with placebo injections in a randomized controlled trial. “Pain in ...

"[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 ...