OSTENIL is #injectionofoil 

In a Twitter conversation this weekend, former Premiership footballer, Don Hutchison, recommended OSTENIL as a "god send" [sic] and as "#injectionofoil":


Thank you for the commendation, and best wishes to you!

New Guidelines Offer Hope for Older UK Osteoarthritis Sufferers

A report on how people suffering with symptomatic Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee may still be able to remain active in sport has just been published in the Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine: January 2016 - Volume 26 - Issue 1 - p 1–11 doi: 10.1097/JSM.0000000000000274

The authors – who are all members of The American Medical Society for Sport Medicine (AMSSM), an organisation which represents over 2100 nonsurgical sports medicine physicians - carried out a detailed meta-analysis (a process where the results of many different studies are pooled and then subjected to sensitive statistical testing) of all relevant clinical investigations relating to the use of Viscosupplementation published between 1960 and 2014.  Viscosupplementation is an internationally recognised treatment modality for Osteoarthritis of the knee. The process involves injecting Hyaluronic Acid (HA) or Sodium Hyaluronate as it is often referred to, directly into the affected joint. HA is a viscous fluid which closely resembles the natural synovial fluid found in all healthy articular joints...

Continue here: http://www.trbchemedica.co.uk/news/new-guidelines-offer-hope-to-older-oa-sufferers

Improved VISMED MULTI OSD Bottle

The award-winning OSD bottle we use for VISMED MULTI and VISMED GEL MULTI has recently been updated. This comes as a result of our policy of ongoing improvement to products and procedures. We listened to our customers and patients who were ...asking for some amendments to the OSD bottle and this is what has been achieved:

- Release strength reduced by 25% - 30%.
- The new type bottle now feels the same at half empty as the old style when completely full.
- The bottle can be emptied more easily due to a better drop control.

You can read more about it here:
http://www.trbchemedica.co.uk/news/vismed-multi-osd-improved

Efficacy of Hypotonic 0.18% Sodium Hyaluronate Eye Drops in Patients With Dry Eye Disease

The above is the title of a new study by Lee HS et al, published in June 2014. "Hypotonic 0.18% SH eye drops seemed to be effective in improving tear film stability and ocular surface integrity compared with isotonic 0.1% SH eye drops in patients with mild DED."

The abstract can be viewed here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24915018

http://www.trbchemedica.co.uk/dry-eyes/hypotonic-eye-drops

What to do after joint injections

You have just had an injection with hyaluronic acid to treat osteoarthritis, but what else can you do?

Exercising helps to prolong the benefit
of hyaluronic acid joint injections

After your injection with OSTENIL® hyaluronic acid (or: sodium hyaluronate) into your knee joint, or other synovial joint, you may want to utilise and prolong the positive effects of the treatment and get your joints moving again. Your Physiotherapist or GP can give you some helpful advice on which exercises and type of activity would be most suitable to further improve and stabilise your joints.
Here are some ideas:

Knee, shoulder and hip:

• Frequent exercising that won't put too much pressure on the joints: e.g. swimming, walking, cycling
• Specific physiotherapy exercises to strengthen the muscles surrounding the joint
• Reducing weight

Fingers and toes:

• Regular movement exercises to maintain joint flexibility
• Bathing fingers and toes in warm water to reduce pain
• Stretching fingers and toes as far as pain allows

Back joints:

• Strengthening and stretching abdominal muscles (back and stomach muscles)
• Relaxing painful back muscles by applying warmth, e.g. hot water bottle

Relief from Dry Eye for Blepharitis Sufferer

Dry Eye Relief with VISMED® MULTI

Hilary Fallon suffers from dry eye which is caused by blepharitis. She treats the symptoms using VISMED® eye drops. This is what she had to say about her condition and how VISMED® eye drops have helped her to find relief:
"Dry Eye feels quite sort of scratchy, hot and irritable. It is most uncomfortable when you are either in an air-conditioned space, like an aeroplane, or it's windy or too hot. ... The most important thing is to be able to have some eye drop like VISMED® that you can pop into your eyes to take the sort of stinging, uncomfortable feeling away. You just have to tilt your head back and pop a drop in, so they are very very easy to administer. You don't need anyone to help you. And it's a very convenient little bottle to just pop in your handbag or whatever."
You can watch Hilary on this YouTube clip.

Ophthalmic Squeeze Dispenser

Some interesting facts about the VISMED® MULTI or VISMED® GEL MULTI dispensers from TRB Chemedica: Each bottle contains up to 250 drops of VISMED® (0.18% Sodium Hyaluronate) or VISMED® GEL (0.3% Sodium Hyaluronate), making them an economic alternative to the classic mono-dose vials; The dispensers are safe to use up to 3 months after first opening; No preservatives are included in the solution; instead the containers are kept contaminant-free by an innovative and award-winning bottle design. You can find more information on VISMED® MULTi here: http://www.trbchemedica.co.uk/dry-eyes/vismed-multi ; and on VISMED® GEL MULTI here: http://www.trbchemedica.co.uk/dry-eyes/vismed-gel-multi .