Knee
The most commonly injected joint, usually for osteoarthritis. Also the joint where hyaluronic acid is most often considered.
Private Steroid Joint Injections
£250 per joint, given by a specialist doctor, with same day appointments.
Cortisone injections for painful joints and soft tissue problems, at any of our ten UK clinics. Relief typically lasts around three months, which is often long enough to get physiotherapy working or to get through until surgery. No referral needed.
- Doctor Assessment First
- Same Day Appointments
- Full Range of Options
- GMC-registered doctors
- CQC registered
- Allergy Testing Available
Book a STEROID INJECTION Without The Wait
NHS waits for a joint injection can run to months, and pain that stops you moving costs you fitness, sleep and work while you wait.
The appointment starts with an assessment. Which joint, how long, what makes it worse, what you have already tried, and whether an injection is the right next step. Sometimes it is not, and you should be told that before you pay rather than afterwards.
Bring any scans or reports you have. An X-ray or MRI already done saves time and changes the advice.
Why Patient Choose our PRIVATE JOINT INJECTION SERVICE
- • £250 per joint, published.
- • Seen within days, not months.
- • Given by a specialist doctor with sports and musculoskeletal medicine experience.
- • Assessed properly first. Pain in a joint has several possible causes and not all of them respond to steroid.
- • Both steroid and hyaluronic acid available, because they suit different problems.
- • Physiotherapy advice alongside, since the injection buys the window and the rehab does the lasting work.
- • Ten UK clinics, with same day appointments.
WHICH JOINTS CAN BE INJECTED
Shoulder
For impingement, rotator cuff problems, frozen shoulder and shoulder osteoarthritis.
Hand, thumb and wrist
Thumb base arthritis, trigger finger, de Quervain’s and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Elbow
Tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow. Worth an honest word: steroid gives short term relief in tennis elbow but the evidence on longer term outcomes is mixed, and rehabilitation matters more.
Foot and ankle
Plantar fasciitis, ankle arthritis and Morton’s neuroma.
Hip
How To Book CORTISONE INJECTION
Step 1
Book online or call 0208 050 0379
Same day appointments usually available.
Step 2
Assessment
Which joint, how long, what you have tried, and any scans you already have.
Step 3
The decision
Whether an injection is the right step, and whether steroid or hyaluronic acid suits your problem.
Step 4
The injection
The skin is cleaned, and the injection is given into the joint or the soft tissue around it. It takes a few minutes.
Step 5
Afterwards
Rest the joint that day, then rehabilitation. The injection creates the window and the exercise does the lasting work.
HOW LONG DOES A STEROID INJECTION LAST?
- Around three months is typical for chronic pain, and that is what the live service quotes.
- Any active infection.When you will notice. Often within a few days. Some people feel it within 24 hours, and some take a week to ten days.
- Flare up first, in some people. A short increase in pain in the first 24 to 48 hours before it settles. It is common, it is not a sign anything has gone wrong, and simple painkillers and ice usually manage it.
- Why relief is not permanent. A steroid injection reduces inflammation. It does not repair a worn joint or a damaged tendon, so if the underlying cause remains, the pain tends to return.
- What makes it last longer. Doing the rehabilitation during the pain free window. This is the single biggest difference between people who get three months and people who get a year, and it is the part nobody wants to hear.
- How often can you have one. Standard practice is no more than three or four steroid injections into the same joint in a year, and not closer together than a few months, because repeated steroid can weaken cartilage and tendon over time. [
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STEROID INJECTION SIDE EFFECTS
Common and short lived.
• A flare of pain in the first day or two
• Soreness or bruising at the injection site
• Facial flushing for a day or two
• A raised blood sugar for a few days, which matters if you have diabetes. Tell us at booking and monitor more closely afterwards
• Temporary disturbance of the menstrual cycle
Uncommon.
• Thinning or dimpling of the skin, or a pale patch, at the injection site
• Loss of fat under the skin where the injection was given
Rare but important.
• Joint infection. Increasing pain, swelling, heat and redness with a fever in the days after an injection needs urgent medical attention. Do not wait
• Tendon weakening or rupture, which is why injections around tendons are limited in number
• A significant allergic reaction
Tell us before your injection if you have diabetes, are taking a blood thinner such as warfarin or a DOAC, have an infection anywhere including the skin over the joint, have a prosthetic joint, are pregnant or breastfeeding, or are due a vaccination.
An injection is not given into a joint that may be infected, or through infected skin.
Our GMC-registered doctors ensure fast turnaround times and legally compliant documentation at every location.
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Before you book: WHEN AN INJECTION IS NOT THE ANSWER
- A steroid injection treats inflammation. It does not fix everything that hurts.
- Where an injection may not help. Pain coming from a nerve rather than a joint. Pain from a mechanical problem such as a torn meniscus that needs assessing properly. Severe osteoarthritis where the joint is worn out and the real answer is a joint replacement.
- Where imaging comes first. Sudden severe pain, a joint that locks or gives way, or pain following an injury. Those need looking at rather than injecting.
- Where you need urgent care instead, not an appointment. A hot, swollen, very painful joint with a fever could be an infected joint, and that is a same day emergency. Go to an emergency department.
- We will tell you at the assessment if an injection is not the right step, and what is. That is a better outcome than £250 for something that was never going to work.
STEROID INJECTION OR HYALURONIC ACID: which do you need?
Both are offered here. They are different treatments for different situations.
| Steroid, Kenalog | Hyaluronic acid, Ostenil | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Reduces inflammation | Supplements the fluid that lubricates the joint |
| Works best for | Inflammatory pain, flare ups, soft tissue problems | Knee osteoarthritis, particularly where steroid has stopped helping |
| How quickly | Days | More slowly, often two to five weeks |
| How long | Around three months | Potentially longer |
| Number of injections | One per joint, repeated no more often than advised | Often a course rather than a single injection |
| Price | £250 | - |
If standard treatment controls your symptoms, the NHS route is entirely adequate and cheaper. This service is worth paying for when it has not.
JOINT INJECTION FAQs
£250 per joint, given by a specialist doctor.
No, and you do not need to be registered with us.
There is a sting as it goes in and pressure as the injection is given. It takes a few minutes. A flare of pain for a day or two afterwards is common.
Around three months typically. Doing the rehabilitation during the pain free window is what makes it last longer.
- No. It reduces inflammation and pain. It does not repair a worn joint, which is why relief is temporary when the cause remains.
Same day and next day appointments are usually available.
Knee, shoulder, hand, thumb, elbow, foot and ankle are the usual scope, with hip depending on guided injection.
Often a few days, sometimes within 24 hours, sometimes up to ten days.
Standard practice is no more than three or four into the same joint in a year, spaced by months, because repeated steroid can weaken cartilage and tendon.
Tell us at booking. Steroid can raise blood sugar for several days and you should monitor more closely afterwards.
Ready to book your JOINT INJECTION this week
£250 per joint, given by a specialist doctor at any of our ten UK clinics. Assessed first, with rehabilitation advice afterwards, because the injection creates the window and the exercise does the lasting work. If an injection is not the right answer for your joint, we will tell you.