Beyond the muscular effects - onabotulinumtoxinA injections for pain control in chronic knee osteoarthritis: a case report

Gordon D Ko; Kim Isabelle Lam; Jonathan Looi; Kinga T Koprowicz; Mark Tsai; Thomas R Hein

doi:10.2147/JPR.S159841

Beyond the muscular effects - onabotulinumtoxinA injections for pain control in chronic knee osteoarthritis: a case report

J Pain Res. 2018 Sep 21:11:1967-1970. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S159841. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Gordon D Ko^{1

2}, Kim Isabelle Lam¹, Jonathan Looi¹, Kinga T Koprowicz¹, Mark Tsai¹, Thomas R Hein¹

Affiliations

¹ Canadian Centre for Integrative Medicine, Markham, ON, Canada, isabellek.lam@gmail.com.
² Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Abstract

We present a long-standing case of an 88-year-old woman with multiple comorbidities receiving intra-articular Botox^® (onabotulinumtoxinA) injections for bilateral chronic knee osteoarthritis. She reported improved pain control and function supported by validated outcome measures.

Keywords: Botox; injection; knee; osteoarthritis; pain management.

Publication types

Case Reports