Types of Knee Injections & Benefits

For more than 20 years, Dr. Jamie Gottlieb has been practicing medicine. He is the CEO and a spine surgeon at I-Spine Institute and GBS Spinal Associates, and he also serves as a spine surgeon at Orthopedic Specialists North Texas in Denton, TX. Dr. Jamie Gottlieb has written an article on intra-articular knee injections.

Knee injections are often necessary in sports medicine, general practice, and rheumatology to treat various conditions and reduce the impact of lifestyle-limiting knee injuries. Most commonly, intra-articular knee injections use corticosteroids, which relieve inflammation and pain in knee joints and address osteoarthritis pain. However, people who have psoriatic arthritis, pseudogout, rheumatoid arthritis, or juvenile idiopathic arthritis also may benefit from intra-articular corticosteroid injections.

Doctors also use other agents in knee injections, including hyaluronic acid and infliximab. Infliximab treats refractory knee synovitis or monoarthritis in patients who have rheumatoid arthritis or Behcet's disease. Typically, these patients have not had success with systemic treatment. Hyaluronic acid benefits patients who have osteoarthritis in the knees.