fluoroscopic pain relief injection into hip

I had it done before surgery. For me it helped a lot.

And you can have it two our three times within a certain period off time.But it's no a cure.

Eamonn,

 I haven't heard of this before. I googled it and it looks interesting and painful. Please let us know the results after you have the procedure. I may look into this if my hip pain continues. I already had one THR and do not want another. Will this keep the joint from deteriorating?

Good luck,

Kathee

Hi Eamonn,

Just googled this for you, hope it helps and hope you get some pain relief from the injection.

Fluoroscopic Guided Hip Injection This non-operative, outpatient procedure is designed to provide relief for patients with arthritis of the hip joint. The technique allows the physician to inject numbing and anti-inflammatory medications with maximum accuracy.

Preparation

The physician swabs the front of the hip and injects a numbing medication. A special X-ray device called a fluoroscope is positioned over the hip.

Injecting the Dye

To make sure the medicine injection is in the hip joint, the physician first uses an injection of dye. The dye shows up on the fluoroscope image. If the dye pools in the soft tissue at the front of the hip joint, the physician adjusts the needle placement.

Finding the Target Area

Fluoroscopic Guided Hip Injection When the dye reaches the target area – the space inside the joint – the physician is ready to inject the medication.

Injecting the Medication

Fluoroscopic Guided Hip Injection The rear of the syringe is removed from the needle and a syringe filled with medication is attached. The physician injects the medication into the joint.

End of Procedure

The needle is removed and a small bandage is applied. The numbing medication will provide short-term pain relief, while the anti-inflammatory medication will aid in long-term relief. 

 

Hi Eamonn...It is an injection by means of a guided fluorospe ( CT scan type) where the surgeon can watch the position of the needle on fluoroscope to make sure the injection of pain blockers are injected into the joint.

IT

It is not a big deal. It can take 5 seconds or 5 min. It is about making sure the needle is in the right position to allow the flow into the joint...not painfull because a short needle is used first to inject lithocain into the tissue and thereafter it is painless....

Hi Eamonn.

I had it done last year and to be honest it did not help.

I was left with lots of black marks over my face which i know causes by the steriod that they injected into my hip to stop the pain.

My friend had it done also for her knee and it did not help her also.

to be honest it's a waste of time.

UK.

Good Luck

My wife had this done recently, and for her, it was extremely painful.

Her situation might be different than most, however. She has fibromyalgia and RA and it seems her nervous system was very amped up, to the point that she was feeling pain through the local anesthetic during the shot. She remembers screaming when they actually injected her. And this was through local anestesia, moderate sedation & heavy IV pain meds. Afterward the doctor said the procedure went smoothly, nothing unusual (except the screaming of course).

About 30 minutes after the injection, the numbing agent (relative of lidocain) started working and her hip felt much better. However, once that numbing agent wore off, she was in extreme pain (10+). We had to take her to the hospital to manage the pain, and it took days and a lot of IV meds for the pain to subside.

We're now 7 days out from the injection, and I'm pretty sure that if she could go back, she'd opt to skip it. Her hip is still net worse than before.