A randomized controlled trial conducted by a research team at a primary care clinic at the Chinese University of Hong Kong indicates that intra-articular-only injection therapy with hypertonic ...

New clinical data suggests intra-articular injections of hypertonic dextrose are safe and effective at alleviating knee pain caused by osteoarthritis, a condition affecting nearly 30 million Americans ...

Dexterity through Dextrose For osteoarthritis sufferers, injections of a sugar solution could be much more than placebo, a new study suggests (K.D. Reeves et al., "Randomized prospective double-blind ...

If you suffer from chronic knee pain, you may have tried anti-inflammatory medicines, physical therapy, or cortisone shots to provide some relief. Now, a new scientific review lends support to a ...

Most of us think of chronic joint pain as an “old person’s problem.” However, chronic joint pain plagues at least 25% of our population at any given time. Although many children are spared from ...

3 Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 4 Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Purpose To evaluate whether ...

Q: I'm a 66-year-old man whose right knee really hurts from arthritis. My sister keeps talking about something called prolotherapy. What is it, and can it help? A: Prolotherapy is an injection-based ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given its blessing to Amphastar Pharmaceuticals for dextrose injection 50% in the 50-ml Luer-Jet Prefilled Syringe System. The medication is a sterile, ...

Share on Pinterest Dextrose is similar to fructose and glucose. Dextrose is a type of simple sugar made from corn. It is similar to fructose and chemically identical to glucose, which is blood sugar.

An alternative medicine approach to joint pain that typically uses injections of sugar or sodium may be worth trying for knee osteoarthritis after traditional approaches fail, a recent review suggests ...