JOINTS AND BURSA STEROID INJECTIONS

Joints and bursa steroid injections performed to deliver anesthetic and corticosteroid medications into the joint or bursa to relieve the pain, regain range of motion and function. The anesthetic portion of the injection may reduce pain from specific structures and corticosteroids may reduce inflammation which usually is the main source of the pain.

Common Injection techniques and areas are:

• Shoulder joint

• Acromioclavicular joint

• Subacromial bursa

• Lateral epicondyle

• Medial epicondyle

• Olecranon bursa

• First carpometacarpal joint

• De Quervain’s tendinitis injection

• Trigger finger

• Hip joint

• Knee joint

• Greater trochanteric bursa

• Pes Anserine bursa

• Tibiotalar joint

• Morton’s neuroma

• Plantar fasciitis