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Durolane Injection therapy

To decrease pain and stiffness and improve the other symptoms of osteoarthritis.

Durolane Injection therapy
Durolane Injection therapy

Durolane Injection is a treatment for the symptoms of Osteoarthritis. It can be used in the knee, or in any other joints in the body that are classified as ‘synovial joint’. These are clinically proven to reduce the pain associated with Osteoarthritis

Durolane Injection therapy was developed to treat painful tendinopathy. It also helps to restore restricted mobility in tendon disorders caused, for example, by overuse or inappropriate biomechanical stress. It is highly concentrated sodium hyaluronate (2%).

How Does Durolane Injection Plus Work?

Durolane Injection is a solution containing sodium hyaluronate. It is injected into the space in the joint that contains synovial fluid and works by restoring the normal balance between the breakdown and production of sodium hyaluronate.

This procedure is known as 'viscosupplementation', and the effect of Durolane Injection means that it can decrease pain and stiffness and improve the other symptoms of osteoarthritis.

The sodium hyaluronate in Durolane Injection is very pure and is manufactured using a process called fermentation. It contains no animal proteins, which means that it is very unlikely to cause an allergic reaction. Durolane Injection has been given to thousands of patients and has not been found to cause any serious side effects. The exact make-up of the sodium hyaluronate in Durolane Injection has been carefully chosen so that it is as effective as possible in treating osteoarthritis.

What Can I Expect If I Decide To Have Treatment With Durolane Injection?

If you decide to have treatment with Durolane Injection, it will be injected directly into the joint affected by osteoarthritis. You will probably not notice any benefits immediately after the injection, but you should gradually start to feel less pain and stiffness over the next few weeks. The improvement in your symptoms should last for several months, depending partly on the number of injections you have. You can expect the benefit from the injection to last for up to 9 months. Once the effects of the first injection wears off, you can, if you choose, have another. After that, you can continue to have new courses of injections whenever necessary. http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org

Durolane Injection therapy
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Durolane Injection - For Painful Tendinopathy

Durolane Injection was developed to treat pain and restricted mobility in tendon disorders caused, for example, by overuse or inappropriate biomechanical stress. It is highly concentrated sodium hyaluronate (2%).

How Does Durolane Injection Work?

The lubricating characteristics of sodium hyaluronate increase tendon gliding and reduce agglutinations (stickiness). The tendon can work again as if well-oiled. Furthermore, sodium hyaluronate blocks pain receptors, hinders inflammatory mediators, and is a good transport medium for nutrients.

Durolane Injection ensures a harmonisation of the tendons and the surrounding structures, reduces pain and increases joint function.

How Is Durolane Injection Administered?

The treatment itself takes very little time. Your doctor will give you an injection into the area around the most damaged part of the affected tendon, usually employing some form of visual guidance equipment such as Ultra-Sound, which helps ensure the injection is placed correctly. In the case of tendons within a tendon sheath, Your Therapist will inject Durolane Injection into the tendon sheath itself. In either case, the lubricant will be distributed through natural movement along the entire tendon. A repeat injection, normally given a week after the first, may be required in more established and persistent tendon disease.

What Can You Expect From Treatment With Durolane Injection?

In studies done in Germany the treatment scheme described above has proved to be effective and safe. In most cases, there is a quick and long-lasting improvement of joint function. Several tendons may be treated at the same time. If symptoms return the treatment can be repeated.

What You Should Know About Private Medical Insurers?

Private medical insurers may sometimes give the impression that they will not reimburse Durolane Injection, and, as a result, you may be led to offer Durolane Injection only for self-funding patients.

However, the fact is that Bupa, Aviva, AXA-PPP and VitalityHealth will fund viscosupplementation if you use the correct specific code that the insurers require. Please have a look at this website: www.ccsd.org.uk. The "Clinical Coding & Schedule Development Group" provides the specific codes used by the four major insurers (BUPA, Aviva, AXA-PPP, and VitalityHealth) for injecting a viscosupplement into a joint with or without guidance.

The relevant codes for AXA-PPP, Aviva and VitalityHealth can be found by clicking the ‘procedural’ (green) tab and entering ‘Viscosupplement’ in the search box. The codes that come up are:

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W9032 – Injection of viscosupplement into joint WITH image guidance

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W9033 – Injections of viscosupplement into joints WITH image guidance (bilateral)

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W9042 – Injection of viscosupplement into joint

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W9043 - Injections of viscosupplement into joints (bilateral)

BUPA:

The code for BUPA is AA663, which has to be used in conjunction with W9030 (joint injection under guidance), or W9040 (joint injection without guidance). If you go to the individual insurers websites then you can also see how much they pay for using each of the codes and what restrictions there are.

Do Insurers Only Fund Knee Injections?

Sometimes an insurer may say that they will only cover the cost of a visco supplement injected into the knee and not any other joint. However, on the codes schedule it does not specify that the related codes are only for the knee. This means injections into other joints, i.e. hip, shoulder, ankle, etc, should also be covered by the insurers. However, the insurers will have their own specific policy regarding applicable clinical circumstances and products to be used.

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