We investigated 15 patients with painful hip arthroplasties using intra-articular injection of bupivicaine. Fourteen had pain relief and 13 of them were subsequently found to have loosening of one or both components. The relief of pain after total hip arthroplasty by intra-articular injection of bupivicaine indicates that a satisfactory result is probable after revision surgery with refixation ...

Background: Epidural steroid injection is an innocuous and efficient modality of treatment for chronic low back ache due to a multitude of causes, its use being on the rise in recent times. However, a note needs to be made regarding the potentially serious complications following epidural steroid injection including epidural space infection. This condition requires a high index of suspicion for...

introduction: tonsillectomy is one of the most common surgeries in the world and the most common problem is post-tonsillectomy pain and bleeding. the relief of postoperative pain helps increase early food intake and prevent secondary dehydration. one method for relieving pain is peritonsillar injection of epinephrine along with an anesthetic, which has been shown to produce variable results in ...

Objective: To compare mean resting pain relief and passive external rotation improvement by Intra-articular Steroid versus intra-articular Platelet Rich Plasma injection in patients with adhesive capsulitis.
 Study Design: Prospective comparative study.
 Place Duration of Study: Armed Forces Institute Rehabilitation Medicine, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from Jan to Jun 2019.
 Methodolog...

AIM To investigate the impact of statin use on response to fluoroscopy-assisted transforaminal anterior epidural steroid injection (TAESI). METHODS Patients undergoing TAESI for low back pain were recruited and stratified according to statin use. Pain was evaluated with a visual analogue scale (VAS) before and at 1, 3, and 6 months after TAESI. Health-related quality-of-life was evaluated usi...

BACKGROUND Transforaminal epidural steroid injections are known to reduce inflammation by inhibiting synthesis of various proinflammatory mediators and have been used increasingly. The anti-inflammatory properties of opioids are not as fully understood but apparently involve antagonism sensory neuron excitability and pro-inflammatory neuropeptide release. To date, no studies have addressed the ...

background chronic sacroiliac (si) joint pain constitutes 16% to 30% of the total prevalence of chronic low back pain, which is commonly unilateral. apart from conservative management, various interventional pain management procedures have been reported. intraarticular deposteroid injection has been described as the most evidence-based, but different various radio frequency (rf) procedures have...

BACKGROUND Lower back pain is one of the most common health-related complaints in the adult population. Thirty percent of Americans 65 years and older reported symptoms of lower back pain in 2004 (NCHS, 2006). Injection treatment is a commonly used non-surgical procedure to alleviate lower back pain in older adults. However, the effectiveness of injection treatment, particularly in older adults...

Acharya Sushruta explained that when a person walk on the irregular or uneven surface, vata gets localized and aggravated in khuda pradesha (Ankle joint) produce pain heal region known as Vatakantaka. It can be compared to Plantar Fasciitis. Fasciitis is one of painful condition heel hampers daily activity. caused due repeated stretch strain plantar fascia resulting injury inflammation which pr...