
A joint injection is when medicine – usually a steroid – is injected into your sore joints and muscles, treating both pain and inflammation.
What are joint injections?
Joint injections are used to treat muscle and joint inflammation in many areas of the body, such as the finger, toe, wrist, ankle, shoulder, hip, knee, and tendons.
A patient with arthritis, gout, tendonitis, rotator cuff issues, or musculoskeletal issues may also benefit from joint injections.
What happens?
Before your joint injections, your doctor will treat the area with a cold spray or other local anaesthesia. Sometimes an aspiration (taking fluid out of a joint) may be performed first, before the medicine – typically steroidal – is injected. Anti-inflammatory agents may also be injected to slow down the accumulation of cells responsible for producing inflammation and pain.
Benefits of joint injections
Joint injections should help decrease any inflammation, swelling, tenderness, or heat within the joint. If successful, relief should be experienced within a few days, and can last for months. Generally, the patient will respond after one injection; however, it may be necessary to administer more.
Side-effects are uncommon, but can include tenderness, warmth, or swelling around the injection site.
Practices that also provide Joint Injections - What we treat

Applewood Medical Centre
Applewood Village, Swords, Co. Dublin

Athy Medical
Carlow Road , Athy, R14 X672 , Co Kildare

Blackrock Medical
Frascati Centre, Blackrock, Co Dublin, A94 H6V9

Bryanstown Medical
Dublin Road, Martello Village, Drogheda, Co Louth

Churchtown Medical
96 -98 Churchtown Road Upper, Churchtown, Co. Dublin, D14 EW68

Ennis Medical
Francis Street, Ennis, Co Clare V95 KC3H,

Finglas Medical
45 - 47 Main Street, Finglas, Dublin 11

Headfort Family Practice
Primary Care Centre, Navan Road , Kells, Co. Meath, A82 H3C7

Knocknacarra Medical Centre
Clybaun Road, Knocknacarra, Galway, H91 TKF3

Maretimo Medical
The Promenade, Upper Salthill Road, Salthill, Co Galway, H91 EW68

Navan Road Medical
Primary Care Centre, Navan Road, Dublin 7, D07 K229

Northgate Surgery
226 Pearse Park, Drogheda, Co Louth, A92 E088

Ranelagh Medical
22-26 Sandford Rd, Ranelagh, Dublin 6, D06 KF84

Sandyford Medical
Unit C7, The Plaza, Beacon South Quarter, Sandyford, Dublin 18, D18 TY79

Sheehan Medical
Unit 301, 3rd Floor, Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, A96 DD74

Southern Cross Medical
Southern Cross Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow, A98 V4K7,

Terenure Medical
84A Terenure Road East, Terenure, Dublin 6, DA6 W5A2

The Square Medical
1st Floor Elgee Building, Market Square, Dundalk, Co. Louth. A91 YR9X