Joint Injections

Falls, sports injuries, and arthritis are often the cause of chronic joint pain. If medications aren’t working well to control joint pain or improve your mobility, you may be a candidate for a joint injection at Advanced Interventional Pain Consultants. The experienced pain management team led by Jaime Robledo, MD, offers injectable therapies to ease pain and inflammation in nearly any joint, including the ankles, hips, and shoulders, helping you achieve lasting pain relief with minimal downtime. Call the office in Katy, Texas, to find out if you’re a candidate for joint injection therapy or book an appointment online today. 

What is a joint injection?

A joint injection delivers anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving medications directly into the structures of your joint. The medicines include steroids and a local anesthetic that support long-lasting pain relief from joint injuries and degenerative disease.

The Advanced Interventional Pain Consultants team offers joint injections to treat chronic pain in nearly any joint of your body, including elbows, hips, and knees.

The experienced pain management providers also specialize in sacroiliac joint injections to diagnose and treat chronic lower back pain from sacroiliac joint dysfunction. This joint, which sits next to your spine and connects both hips to your sacrum, can be damaged by repetitive stress, sports injuries, and auto accidents.

When should I consider a joint injection?

You may be a candidate for joint injections at Advanced Interventional Pain Consultants if you have chronic joint pain that’s not manageable with oral medications, physical therapy, and other strategies.

Joint injections can provide lasting relief of pain for conditions like:

• Gout
• Bursitis
• Tendonitis
• Osteoarthritis
• Rheumatoid arthritis

If you have pain from thickened or damaged facet joints, you might benefit from facet joint injections that deliver medications directly into one or both facet joints of your spinal vertebrae.

The providers may also recommend a joint injection as part of your diagnostic testing for joint pain. If the team injects medications into a specific area of your joint and symptoms go away, they can confirm the pain source and determine if you’re a candidate for additional joint injections.

What happens during a joint injection?

During your initial joint injection, your Advanced Interventional Pain Consultants provider helps you relax on an exam table and cleans the injection site.

They may use special X-ray technology (fluoroscopy) to get a close look at the joint structures and determine where to inject the medications. Fluoroscopy also helps guide the needle into a specific location of the joint for maximum pain relief.

You may not notice a reduction in your pain right away but within a few days, you can expect to have less pain and better joint mobility. You may need additional injections to manage pain and inflammation in the long term.

Call Advanced Interventional Pain Consultants to schedule a joint injection consultation or book an appointment online today.