While knee replacement is often a very effective treatment for osteoarthritis pain, it is major surgery. Recent high-quality studies have shown that in some cases, knee arthroscopy (‘a clean-out’) may be no better (or even worse) than no treatment at all.

Between pain medications and surgery, there are injectable treatments that can improve knee pain and function. The most commonly used injections for knee OA fall into three categories: corticosteroids (“Cortisone”), hyaluronans (e.g. “Durolane” or “Synvisc”), and blood-derived injections (platelet rich plasma or ”PRP”, and others).

At BallaratOSM all of these treatments can be performed in our clinic.