Hip Injections | Arthritis Pain | Hip Injection Treatment

Hip injections for arthritis are becoming used more often as a method of allowing people to regain some quality of life.

It's not easy to perform an injection into the hip so doctor's often use an x-ray machine to guide the procedure. This is sometimes called "fluoroscopy" and is a good way of making sure that the injection actually goes into the hip joint and not into the tissues round about it.

Hip injections can be done with steroid or with a viscosupplementation product like synvisc or ostenil.

The results are often good in giving pain relief but it can depend on how much wear and tear there is in the joint at the outset.