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What is Knee injections?

Injections are given by a needle directly into the knee joint. There are two types of injections used to treat symptoms of knee osteoarthritis: joint lubricants (viscosupplementation) and cortisone (steroid injection).

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Muscle and joint pain 2 0
Pain in knees 1 1 Efficacy_major
pain and tightness 1 0
Osteoarthritis (OA) 1 1 Efficacy_slight
Increase effect of another treatment 1 0
Joint pain 1 0

See all 6 patients currently having Knee injections

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 1
Mild
 0
None
 1

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Knee injections

Always
 2 100%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Knee injections

Very
 1 50%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 0 0%
Not at all
 1 50%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Knee injections

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 1 100%

Report created on February 12, 2012.