Shoulder Joint Injections

Shoulder joint injections can be used for a number of conditions.
If performed carefully they are not normally painful. Most doctors will use a mixture of steroid and local anesthetic but sometimes other injection treatments can be given using platelet rich plasma, hyaluronic acid or even simple saline or salty water.

Common reasons for shoulder joint injections include:

• frozen shoulder or adhesive capsulitis
• osteoarthritis of the shoulder
• rheumatoid arthritis of the shoulder
• as a diagnostic aid when performing an arthrogram or a CT or MRI scan

Sometimes injections are given into the soft tissues around the shoulder - the bursa space or around the tendons of the rotator cuff. The technique for this is slightly different to the one used for a joint injection.

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Injection Bruise | Pain After Injection

Getting a bruise (sometimes called a haematoma) after an injection is not unusual. It usually arises simply due to bad luck - but can sometimes be related to problems in the persons blood clotting pathways.

You need to remember that most injections are done with a very small needle. These needles are designed to cause as little trauma as possible to the tissues - but sometimes a small vein or artery might be scratched by the needle as it goes into the skin and muscle. This blood vessel then leaks a bit - causing a bruise to appear several days later.

A bruise after an injection can sometimes be painful - or sometimes not. Most will fade quickly without the need for any treatment.

If you find that you get severe bruising every time you have an injection then you should mention this to your doctor because it could point to a problem with blood clotting and you may need some investigations done.

Trigger finger injection | Painful stiff finger

Trigger finger is a condition that arises when the gristle around the tendons in the palm of the hand becomes thickened and forms a small firm nodule.

These nodules are part of the tendon. The tendon is the tough white band that joins the muscle onto the bone. The tendons need to be able to move freely as they glide and slide around the palm of the hand.

If a nodule forms then the tendon will not move freely. It will be prone to getting stuck from time to time because of the shape of the bones and the layout of the muscle.

When this tendon nodule causes sticking then the condition is called "Trigger Finger" - or sometimes "Trigger Thumb."

Trigger finger injection treatment is designed to shrink and soften the nodule - making the tendon run freely and smoothly again.

Trigger finger injection is often succesful but some patients eventually get a recurrence of the problem and need a surgical operation to clear things.

Steroid Injections For Pain | Injection Treatment | Painful Joints

All steroid type injections are designed to relieve pain by relieving inflammation.

All of the steroids that are commonly used for injection are from the anti inflammatory family of drugs.

They include drugs like Kenalog (triamcinolone), Depomedrol or Depomedrone (methylprednisolone) and hydrocortisone acetate.

Steroid injections for pain work by relieving and switching off the inflammation cells and inflammation pain pathways in the vicinity of the area injected.

Most of the injected steroid drugs will stay around in the system for up to ten days, working away slowly to clear up inflammation damage and thus reduce pain. Not all pain conditions will respond to a steroid injection - because not all pain conditions have inflammation as the cause of the problem.

Back Pain Injections | Treatment For Back Problems | Injection

Back pain injections vary in both technique and drugs used depending on what the underlying problem is.


Commonly used back pain injection treatments include the following:

• epidural injection for nerve root pain - this can be either a so called caudal epidural injection or a lumbar epidural injection
• facet joint injections
• facet joint nerve blocking injections
• facet joint denervation injections
• sacroiliac joint injections with steroid and local anesthetic
• soft tissue injections
• trigger point injections
• local intramuscular injection techniques are also sometimes used.

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