Surgical intervention has, for a long time, been modern medicine’s primary solution to knee pain. However, it doesn’t need to be that way. The compassionate team of knee pain specialists at Georgia Medical Treatment Center offer a range of options for knee pain treatment that don’t involve invasive surgery. With physical and supportive therapies and in-office, all-natural knee injections, we offer safe, simple and effective alternatives to knee replacement procedures.

What are the best treatments to avoid knee surgery?

There are three major types of knee pain treatment that can help you avoid the need for surgical procedures: bracing and support, physical therapy, and knee injections.

Bracing and Support

A support device can be an important supplement to any pain treatment program. It’s a method of expanding joint space and reducing pressure on the cartilage and capsule in the knee. This is the unloading effect, which can enhance the impact of an all-natural knee injection program and improve pain reduction and healing.

Physical Therapy

Focused on restoring normal function and exercising ligaments and muscles, physical therapy (PT) is critical to any program of knee pain treatment. It does, however, have limitations that may mean it’s better used in combination with an injection procedure such as viscosupplementation, which can directly address the joint structure that’s causing the pain.

All-Natural Knee Injections

Injection therapies harness the body’s natural healing processes, accelerating them to alleviate chronic knee pain without surgery. This all-natural method of treatment involves:

• Drawing a small amount of blood
• Spinning it in a centrifuge to extract plasma
• Injecting the plasma into the affected joint

Once injected, the concentrated growth factors in the plasma accelerate healing. It’s a procedure that can be performed under local anesthesia in less than an hour. With a series of injections over several weeks, patients can achieve long-term relief from knee pain, and many start to see signs of improvement after just a couple of sessions.

The technique is known as prolotherapy. Studies have shown that it’s one of the most effective ways of treating conditions such as osteoarthritis and chronic patellar tendinopathy. Noted for its safety, it has been in use in both hospitals and sports medicine since the 1970s.

Gel Injections (Viscosupplementation)

Another form of injection procedure aims to cushion and lubricate the joint, supplementing the natural fluids whose production is gradually reduced as the body ages. This fluid substitution process is known as viscosupplementation, used to prolong the health of the knee joint and to address chronic pain symptoms.

Steroid Injections

Corticosteroids are a proven method for reducing inflammation in joints and providing pain relief. As such, they can be a highly effective part of a more comprehensive overall treatment plan. They’re an especially common tool in the repertoire of an expert knee pain doctor, and a procedure that can generally be carried out in-office.

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Georgia Medical Treatment Center is an association of board-certified physicians and other health practitioners dedicated to providing the best in pain treatment. Schedule your appointment today and start your journey toward freedom from chronic knee pain.