Hip Injection

A hip joint injection serves several purposes.

First, by placing numbing medication into the joint, the amount of immediate pain relief you experience will help confirm or deny the joint as a source of your pain. That is, if you obtain complete relief of your main pain while your joint is numb, it means this joint is likely your pain source.

Furthermore, time-release cortisone will be injected into this joint to reduce any inflammation. This can, on many occasions, provide short-medium term pain relief.