Thanks to progressive osteoarthritis (OA), you wince even before you climb the stairs or get out of the car, knowing that you’ll be met with knee pain.
If you're tired of dealing with nagging and progressive knee pain due to OA, you’re in very good company — knee OA affects a whopping 365 million people around the world, and this number is likely low given the rise in aging populations.
If you have knee OA and you’d like to avoid, or at least delay, knee replacement, the team here at World Medical Group dba Neuropathy & Pain Centers of Texas has you covered. At our clinic, we specialize in helping people find meaningful pain relief that doesn’t come at the edge of a knife.
So, when it comes to arthritic knees, we always recommend non-surgical strategies to start, including these potent therapies.
Two types of knee injections can help with achy knees:
These injections are frontline treatments that help manage the discomfort, but they don’t tackle the underlying degeneration in your joint, namely the loss of protective cartilage. Still, they can play an invaluable role in managing knee pain due to OA.
We pride ourselves on offering cutting-edge technologies, and our MLS (multiwave locked system) M6 robotic laser therapy certainly checks this box.
This FDA-cleared technology delivers two wavelengths of laser (light) energy into the tissues in your knee to:
This laser technology promotes healing and regeneration by stimulating the mitochondria in your cells, powering them up so that they can fight pain and inflammation.
In most cases, we recommend a series of MLS treatments, which we space apart to allow time for your knees to respond and the tissues to regenerate and heal.
Each year in the United States, nearly 800,000 knee replacement surgeries are performed, with this number growing by leaps and bounds. If you want to avoid becoming part of this group, we can’t say enough about physical therapy.
More specifically, if we work on strengthening the muscles that support your knee and encouraging better range of motion, we can halt the progression of your OA. This strengthening and flexibility work can also go a long way toward relieving the pain and inflammation that are the hallmarks of OA.
We offer these comprehensive physical medicine services that are geared toward rehabilitation of major joints like your knees, and we’re confident we can help you walk with less pain and stiffness.
If you’d like to figure out which therapy is best for addressing your OA-related knee pain, your first step is to call or message one of our offices in Arlington or Fort Worth, Texas, today to schedule an appointment.
