ℹ️ Ultrasound-guided injection is a precise medical technique that helps deliver medication directly to a targeted area in the body—usually joints, muscles, or around nerves—using real-time imaging to guide the needle placement.
Key Functions of Ultrasound-Guided Injection
- - Targeted Delivery: Ultrasound imaging shows internal structures like bones, ligaments, and soft tissues, allowing clinicians to place the injection with pinpoint accuracy.
- - Pain Management: It’s often used to relieve pain from conditions like arthritis, tendonitis, bursitis, or nerve compression by injecting anti-inflammatory drugs or anesthetics.
- - Joint Lubrication: Injections like hyaluronic acid help lubricate joints, especially for people with osteoarthritis, improving movement and reducing discomfort.
- - Reduced Risk & Improved Comfort: Since the needle placement is guided by live imaging, the procedure minimizes damage to surrounding tissue and is usually more comfortable than blind injections.
- - Diagnostic Support: It can also be used in diagnostic procedures to confirm the source of pain or dysfunction by tracking where the medication has the most effect.
ℹ️ Prolotherapy:
Prolotherapy, also known as regenerative injection therapy, sclerotherapy, and proliferative therapy, is an orthopedic procedure that stimulates the body’s healingprocess by injecting a dextrose solution into the damaged tissue. Prolotherapy induces increased blood flow to the damaged area, which can help regenerate new tissue and stimulate cell growth and differentiation. This regeneration of new tissues is used to
repair weakened tissues (ligament, tendon, cartilage, muscle) and decrease pain.
Treatment is used on Ligaments, joints, tendons, joint capsules and cartilage are all types of tissue that can benefit from Prolotherapy.
ℹ️ Perineural Injections:
Perineural injections are a safe and effective way for treatment of persistent pain. The injections aim to help reduce the neural inflammation such as neuralgia, low back pain, shingles, fibromyalgia, headaches/migraines, nerve impingement and neuropathy. This therapy supports the body to heal itself. Perineural therapy is subcutaneous injections below the skins surface. Using Dextrose or mannitol in a saline solution combine with sodium bicarbonate. This focuses on areas of skin above nerve pathways to address pain at the root cause.
ℹ️ Trigger Point Injections:
Trigger points are parts of a dysfunctional muscle belly that are sometimes referred to as ‘knots.’ These trigger points can occur in various regions of the body, but most common in the upper back, shoulder, lower back and neck regions. Trigger Point Injections can help provide pain relief in these areas by inactivating the trigger point and thereby reducing pain. The injection accomplishes this by relaxing the muscle, educing inflammation and desensitizing the nerves. The Trigger Point Injection involves a precise injection of a particular agent directly into and around the trigger point.
ℹ️ Corticosteroid Injections:
Corticosteroids are a class of steroid hormones that are produced in the adrenal cortex. These corticosteroids have a wide range of physiological processes including stress response, immune response, regulating inflammation, carbohydrate metabolism, protein catabolism, blood electrolyte levels, and behaviour. Cortisone is a type of ‘corticosteroid’ and functions as an anti-inflammatory. Corticosteroid injections are used to reduce inflammation associated with pain, swelling, and loss of function. Treatment can be on joints, tendons, muscles, and fascia. Conditions that can be treated with corticosteroid injections include arthritis, synovitis, tendonitis, bursitis and fasciitis. Corticosteroid injections are generally used as an adjunct to a multifactorial treatment plan.
ℹ️ Hyaluronic Acid Treatment:
Hyaluronic Acid is a molecule found naturally throughout the human body and can be used to relieve painful arthritis in the knee and hip. Hyaluronic Acids accomplish this by providing the joints with synovial fluid for lubrication. Normally, well-functioning knee and hip joints will glide freely in the joint, ensuring smooth motions as we walk, run, and exercise. Often, people living with osteoarthritis have a decrease in synovial fluid in their knee or hip joint. These injections help restore the joints biological properties by providing cushioning and shock absorption. Hyaluronic Acid is also known to help maintain the normal fluid balance in a joint and help restore normal joint function.
ℹ️ Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) - Coming soon!
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