SALINE INJECTIONS FOR KNEE OA: LIKELY THERAPEUTIC (Orthopedics This Week)
New work presented at the recent meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons indicates that intra-articular normal saline (IA-NS) injections may indeed have a therapeutic effect. The meta-analysis, entitled, “The Therapeutic Effect of Intra-articular Normal Saline Injections for Knee Osteoarthritis,” appeared in the December 27, 201+ edition of The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
The authors, Bryan M. Saltzman, M.D., Timothy Leroux, M.D., Maximilian A. Meyer, B.S., Bryce A. Basques, M.D., Jaskarndip Chahal, M.D., F.R.C.S.C., M.Sc., Bernard R. Bach, M.D., Adam B. Yanke, M.D., Brian J. Cole, M.D., M.B.A., were from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and the University of Toronto in Canada.
Dr. Yanke commented to OTW, “Increasingly, new injection products are coming to market for the treatment of symptomatic osteoarthritis. The concern is that while many injections have been proven to be safe, we have a paucity of data on the efficacy of these treatments. Typically the highest level of study to evaluate this is a randomized prospective study with a known control or existing treatment. Whi...
