An approved treatment for osteoarthritis of the knee is an injection of hyaluronic acid, a procedure that is shown to provide significant relief in many patients.

In the survey sample, from Q3 2006 to Q3 2007, average quarterly orthopedic surgeon HA knee injection volumes jumped from 62 to nearly 85.

Hyaluronic acid injections can also slow the progression of joint degeneration, making them a minimally invasive alternative to surgery and potentially delaying the need for such intensive procedures.

Despite decades of mounting evidence showing hyaluronic acid injections don’t help most osteoarthritis patients, the shots have become more widely used.

Two new studies suggest that corticosteroid injections may worsen knee osteoarthritis and hyaluronic acid injections may be a better fit for some people.

The knee hyaluronic acid injections market is expected to grow from USD 2.28 billion in 2025 to USD 3.97 billion by 2035, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.7% during the forecast ...

Use of hyaluronic acid injections significantly increased among Medicare beneficiaries for all providers from 2012 to 2018, with advanced practice providers largely contributing to the increase ...

The common practice of treating knee pain with corticosteroid injections may actually help speed up the progression of arthritis, two studies have found. But injections of hyaluronic acid — a ...

More than 10% of patients with knee osteoarthritis seek noninvasive treatment for pain relief through corticosteroid or hyaluronic acid injections.

While both corticosteroid and hyaluronic acid injections may help with pain relief for knee osteoarthritis, "our results conclusively show that corticosteroids are associated with significant ...