Ultrasound Guided Knee Injections in Musculoskeletal Medicine

Patients will be sitting with knee bent at 90 degrees. Clinician will palpate extremity to determine if a medial or lateral approach will be made for the injection of Euflexxa into the joint space. The procedure will be aided by real time visualization utilizing ultrasound guidance.

Patients will be sitting with knee bent at 90 degrees. Clinician will palpate extremity to determine if a medial or lateral approach will be made for the injection of Euflexxa into the joint space. The procedure will not be aided by ultrasound guidance, but completed based strictly on tactile feedback from the injecting physician.

Patients will be lying supine on exam table. Ultrasound will be used to capture a longitudinal view of the proximal patella and the plane between the prefemoral fat pad and suprapatellar fat pad. After the desired visualization is achieved, injection of Euflexxa will be made within the suprapatellar pouch.

Patients will be lying supine on exam table. Injecting physician will insert needle lateral to the vastus lateralis toward the suprapatellar pouch, and will inject of Euflexxa once it is believed that the needle tip is in the pouch.