
News|Articles|August 1, 2008
Patients Can Keep Their Seats for Knee Injection
I often inject patients’ knees with a mixture of a corticosteroid and an anesthetic agent to alleviate arthritis pain. However, some patients with knee pain have difficulty in climbing onto the examination table.
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I often inject patients’ knees with a mixture of a corticosteroid and an anesthetic agent to alleviate arthritis pain. However, some patients with knee pain have difficulty in climbing onto the examination table. I have found that if patients cross the affected leg over the other while seated in a regular chair, the joint angle and laxity required for injection into the joint space are preserved.
-- John C. Ropp, MD
Hartsville, SC
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