- Conditions Treated: Chronic knee pain, knee osteoarthritis, hemarthrosis
- Reason for Procedure: To reduce chronic knee pain due to osteoarthritis or bleeding into the knee joint in patients who are not surgical candidates or who defer knee surgery.
- How It’s Performed: An Interventional Radiologist will access a small artery usually in your leg. Contrast dye is injected under X-ray guidance to map the arteries of the knee. Small catheters will be advanced into the knee arteries of interest. Microscopic particles or other substances will be injected into the arteries to reduce inflammation or stop bleeding, thereby reducing knee pain.
- Anesthesia: Conscious Sedation
- Recovery Time: 1-2 hours
- For more information and to schedule a consultation with one of our IR physicians, please call 631-403-7088
Conditions treated and procedures performed
- Conditions Treated: Chronic knee pain, knee osteoarthritis
- Reason for Procedure: To reduce chronic knee pain due to osteoarthritis.
- How It’s Performed: An Interventional Radiologist will advance small needles toward the nerves of the knee joint capsule. Anesthetic will be injected to block these nerves that transmit pain signals to the brain. If the nerves are deemed to be the cause of knee pain, ablation needles can be used to burn these nerves, to provide longer lasting knee pain relief.
- Anesthesia: Conscious Sedation
- Recovery Time: 1-2 hours
- For more information and to schedule a consultation with one of our IR physicians, please call 631-403-7088
