Hip injection

Injection of a local anaesthetic and steroids into the hip joint. It can be used as a diagnostic procedure to confirm the diagnosis of hip osteoarthritis (sometimes, it is not clear whether pain is coming from the osteoarthritic hip or back).

It is also used in the conservative treatment of hip osteoarthritis when surgery is too risky (e.g. patient is grossly overweight or has significant heart or lung disease) or not indicated (e.g. patient is too young for the joint replacement).





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