Does a steroid injection in your knee increase your risk of needing a total knee replacement?

I’ve got arthritis in my knee and my doctor wants to inject it with a corticosteroid, is this a good idea and will it help? Does a steroid injection in your knee increase your risk of needing a total knee replacement?

By the way, you can very much treat arthritis with physiotherapy and even massage can help too! All is not lost, so don’t just put up with it get yourself down to Hawkes Physiotherapy, we can help you!

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  • Wijn, S., Rovers, M., van Tienen, T., & Hannink, G. (2020). Intra-articular corticosteroid injections increase the risk of requiring knee arthroplasty: A MULTICENTRE LONGITUDINAL OBSERVATIONAL STUDY USING DATA FROM THE OSTEOARTHRITIS INITIATIVE. The Bone & Joint Journal, 102(5), 586-592.

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Online Physiotherapy

Put simply this is Physio done via either telephone or video over the internet. Skype and facetime are examples of this.

Contrary to popular belief online physiotherapy can be very effective and it can help the same injuries that face to face physio can help. I have helped many people with injuries such as disc prolapses, tennis elbow, neck pain and much more).