Six-months pain relief and functional recovery after intra-articular injections with hyaluronic acid (mw 500–730 KDa) in trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis

Intra-articular hyaluronic acid injections for knee osteoarthritis.

Knee osteoarthritis is a common but often difficult problem to manage in primary care. Traditional nonsurgical management, consisting of lifestyle modification, physical therapy and pharmacologic therapy (e.g., analgesics, anti-inflammatory medications), is often ineffective or leaves residual symptoms. Viscosupplementation is a newly available option for patients with symptomatic knee osteoart...

مقایسه تاثیر هیالورونیک اسید و دکستروز پرولوتراپی داخل مفصلی در درمان درد استئوآرتریت زانو

Background: Conservative treatment needs to be tried prior to surgical treatment of knee osteoarthritis. This study was designed to evaluate the short-term effects of dextrose prolotherapy on pain relief and functional improvement in knee osteoarthritis in comparison with intra-articular hyaluronic acid injections. Methods: In this double blind clinical trial, 100 patients, aged 40-70 years, ...

Treatment of Osteoarthritis with Intra-Articular Injections of Lactic Acid

Intra-Articular Injections for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis: Focus on the Clinical Use of Hyaluronic Acid

Osteoarthritis (OA), also called degenerative joint disease, is the most frequently occurring chronic musculoskeletal disease, particularly affecting the aging population. The use of viscosupplementation, i.e. intra-articular (IA) hyaluronic acid (HA) drug therapy, to treat OA, is growing worldwide, due to important results obtained from several clinical trials, which reported IA HA-related imp...

Therapeutic Efficacy of Intra-Articular Hyaluronic Acid in Osteoarthritis Knee

Osteoarthritis (OA) is an increasingly important public health problem [1]. It is slowly progressive, can cause symptoms ranging from mild to disabiling. Osteoarthritis is a common cause of knee pain especially in the elderly. It is characterised by loss of articular cartilage, subchondral sclerosis, joint deterioration and osteophyte formation [1]. The current treatment for knee OA consists of...