Nearby joint care for Glendale residents

The better clinic depends on where your day begins

From Arrowhead, Loop 101 and Thunderbird Road lead toward Peoria. From south Glendale, 91st Avenue can be more direct toward Thomas Road and Banner Estrella. Think about the trip home as well as the trip there. Ask whether you'll need someone to drive, whether activity will be limited, and how many return visits are common. Don't choose by mileage alone if work or event traffic makes another route easier. The clinic name and appointment time belong in your notes before you leave home.

The easiest trip is the one you can repeat.

If the soreness doesn't settle, the nearest clinic can examine it

QC Kinetix provides regenerative treatment options that use prepared blood or another material from your body. The Peoria office is at 13128 N. 94th Dr., Suite 205, while Banner Estrella is at 9305 W. Thomas Rd., Suite 460 in Phoenix when the south-side drive is easier. Both offices use (602) 837-PAIN. A medical provider is licensed clinic staff who examines the joint and treats you. Ask what they learned during your exam, what the visit may cost, and how soon you'll return to normal tasks.

Confirm the office before you leave home.

Sources

1. The 2019 ACR/Arthritis Foundation guideline makes STRONG recommendations for exercise, weight loss in people with overweight or obesity, self-efficacy and self-management programs, tai chi, cane use, tibiofemoral bracing, topical NSAIDs, oral NSAIDs and intra-articular glucocorticoid injection in knee OA. Notably it does NOT strongly recommend any biologic injectable.

   Kolasinski SL, et al. — 2019 American College of Rheumatology/Arthritis Foundation Guideline for the Management of Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee.. Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2020. DOI: 10.1002/art.41142.

2. The Cochrane review of exercise for knee osteoarthritis found high-quality evidence that land-based therapeutic exercise provides short-term benefit in pain and physical function, sustained for at least 2-6 months after the programme ends, with mild transient soreness the only reported adverse effect across 45 trials. It is the best-evidenced treatment for this condition and it costs nothing per injection.

   Fransen M, et al. — Exercise for osteoarthritis of the knee.. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2015. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004376.pub3.

3. FORWARD, the longest disease-modifying osteoarthritis drug trial reported to date, gave intra-articular sprifermin (a recombinant FGF-18) or placebo to knee OA patients and followed 378 of them for 5 years. Sprifermin produced a significant, sustained dose-response INCREASE in total femorotibial cartilage thickness versus placebo - and WOMAC pain improved about 50% from baseline in ALL groups, including placebo. It is the cleanest demonstration in the literature that adding measurable cartilage and relieving pain are two different results, and that one does not deliver the other.

   Eckstein F, et al. — Long-term structural and symptomatic effects of intra-articular sprifermin in patients with knee osteoarthritis: 5-year results from the FORWARD study.. Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2021. DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219181.