Cortisone/Steroid Injections
At times this can completely relieve symptoms or provide a ‘window’ of pain relief allowing physiotherapy to be more effective. Normally, only one injection is required to gain sufficient pain relief and restore the normal range of movement.
Neil Liffen injections are performed under ultrasound guidance, to visually guide the needle tip to the precise location to ensure the accuracy of the medication to the affected and/or desired joint or soft tissue.
What type of cortisone/steroid injections do you perform?
- Routine cortisone/steroid injections routinely combined with anaesthetic.
- Hydro-dilatation/Hydro-distention/High volume injections for frozen shoulder and Achilles tendinopathy.
- Barbotage injections for calcific tendonitis.
What are the common complaints that effectively treated by cortisone/steroid injection?
Shoulder
- Osteoarthritis shoulder
- Impingement /bursitis
- Adhesive capsulitis / frozen shoulder
- Acromioclavicular joint sprain/ Osteoarthritis
Elbow
- Osteoarthritis
- Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis)
- Golfer’s elbow (medial epicondylitis)
- Bursitis
Hand & Wrist
- Osteoarthritis of the joints of the wrist/hand/thumb
- Trigger finger/thumb
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- De Quervain’s
Hip
- Trochanteric bursitis/gluteal tendinopathy – lateral hip pain
- Hip joint
Knee
- Osteoarthritis knee
- Bursitis
Ankle & Foot
- Ankle and subtalar joints
- Osteoarthritis of the joints of the talonavicular joint, mid and fore-foot joints
- Plantar faciitis/fasciopathy
- Bursitis
- Mortons neuroma
PLEASE NOTE: Injections are not performed on spinal injections or sacroiliac joints.
Patient information leaflet published by the Arthritis Research Campaign please click here (ARC Local Steroid Injections).
