Injection Alternatives for the Management of Knee Osteoarthritis Pain.

DISCUSSION: The effects of the opioid epidemic on patients with knee osteoarthritis are severe. Excessive opioid use in these patients leads to poorer patient satisfactions as well as increased morbidities and mortalities. Therefore, there is a real need for alternative nonoperative treatment options that effectively reduce pain, and promising results from studies on the efficacy GEC injections demonstrate that they may be an answer to the opioid epidemic observed among osteoarthritis patients. PMID: 30888679 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Surgical Technology International - Category: Surgery Tags: Surg Technol Int Source Type: research