OE Journal

ORIGINAL ANALYSIS

Knee Osteoarthritis Injection Therapies: The Evidence and Recommendations

OE Recommends was built to offer streamlined, evidence-based guidance for musculoskeletal care through a dynamic online platform combining expert opinion with the best available research. The first release focuses on intra-articular injections for knee osteoarthritis, with pages that walk users through topic overviews, treatment lists, meta-analysis results, and recommendation votes. Interactive sections present forest plots, GRADE ratings, and minimal important differences, while voting outcomes can be filtered by conflicted and non-conflicted panelists. Early patterns suggest corticosteroid-based injections are viewed as helpful for short-term relief, whereas hyaluronic acid and platelet-rich plasma are seen as having effects that emerge later.