Research

Selective ultrasound-guided nerve root block improves outcomes for discectomy in patients with cervical disc disease: a randomized, controlled, single-blinded study

Marwa M. Abdelrady, King H. Lam, Nehal Shabaan, Manal Hassanien, Esam Mokbel, Doaa W. Nada, Amira M. El Sharkawy, Kareem M. Ramadan, Yasser Ghoraba, Abdallah E. Allam, Ghada M. Aboelfadl

Minerva Anestesiologica. 2024 September;90(9):748-58


A Novel Treatment of Fascial Pain With Glucopuncture: Three Clinical Cases

King Hei Stanley Lam, Jan Kersschot, Teinny Suryadi

Cureus. 2024 May 2;16(5): e59544


Optimizing genicular nerve chemical ablation

Andrés Rocha-Romero, Tony Kwun Tung Ng, and King Hei Stanley Lam

Korean J Pain (2024)


Reliability of Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography for Evaluating Psoas Major and Quadratus Lumborum Stiffness: Gender and Physical Activity Effects

Emma Feng Ming Zhou, Arnold Yu Lok Wong, Yong Ping Zheng, King Hei Stanley Lam, Siu Ngor Fu

Ultrasound Med Biol. 2024 Apr; 50(4): 564-570


Ultrasound Evaluation and Guided Injection of the Subscapularis andSerratus Anterior Muscles Between the Scapula and the Thoracic Cage

Daniel Chiung-Jui Su MD, RMSK, CIPS, Chen-Yu Hung MD, RMSK, King Hei Stanley Lam MBBS, MScSEM, MScSMHS, RMSK, CIPS, FIPP, POCUS (MSK)

J Ultrasound Med (2024)


Sonographic Assessment of Deltoid Muscle Tendons: Advancing the Understanding of Lateral Shoulder Pain

Ping-Tang Liu, Wei-Ting Wu, Ke-Vin Chang, Sheng-Heng Tsai, Bow Wang, King Hei Stanley Lam, Jeimylo De Castro, Levent Özçakar

Asia Pacific Journal of Pain (2023)


Treatment of failed back surgery syndrome with regional sugar water injections: A clinical case report

Jan Kersschot, King Hei Stanley Lam, Teinny Suryadi, Lisa Nurhasanah, Tanti Atjoe Kesoema

Medical Research Archives (2023), 11(12), 4889


Effectiveness of Hypertonic Dextrose Injection (Prolotherapy) in Plantar Fasciopathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Hugo P.Y. Fong MBBS, Meng-Ting Zhu MSc, David P. Rabago MD, Kenneth D. Reeves MD, Vincent C.H. Chung PhD, Regina W.S. Sit MD

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2023, 104 (11), 1941-1953


Volume Effect of Nerve Hydrodissection for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Prospective, Randomized, and Single-Blind Study

Chien-Yao Huang, MD, Chia-Ying Lai, MD, Kenneth Dean Reeves, MD, King Hei Stanley Lam, MBBS, MSc ,Tsung-Ying Li, MD, Chin-I Cheng, PhD, Yung-Tsan Wu, MD

J Ultrasound Med (2023)


Infraspinatus Fascial Dysfunction as a Cause of Painful Anterior Shoulder Snapping: Its Visualization via Dynamic Ultrasound and Its Resolution via Diagnostic Ultrasound-Guided Injection

King Hei Stanley Lam, Daniel Chiung Jui Su, Yung-Tsan Wu, Mario Fajardo Pérez, Kenneth Dean Reeves, Philip Peng, Bradley Fullerton

Diagnostics 2023, 13(15), 2601


The Potential of Glucose Treatment to Reduce Reactive Oxygen Species Production and Apoptosis of Inflamed Neural Cells In Vitro

Juin-Hong Cherng, Shu-Jen Chang, Hsin-Da Tsai, Chung-Fang Chun, Gang-Yi Fan, Kenneth Dean Reeves, King Hei Stanley Lam and Yung-Tsan Wu

Biomedicines 2023, 11(7), 1837


Ultrasound-Guided Interventions for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses

King Hei Stanley Lam, Yung-Tsan Wu, Kenneth Dean Reeves, Felice Galluccio, Abdallah El-Sayed Allam, Philip W. H. Peng

Diagnostics 2023, 13(6), 1138


A novel infrapatellar approach of ultrasound-guided intra-articular injection of the knee from both lateral and medial side: a case series

King Hei Stanley Lam, Yung-Tsan Wu, Kenneth Dean Reeves, Admir Hadzic, Mario Fajardo Perez, Sau Nga Fu

SAGE journals (2023)



Efficacy of Botulinum Toxin, Local Anesthetics, and Corticosteroids in Patients with Piriformis Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Alan D. Kaye, Ammar Salti, Abdullah AlKharabsheh, Felice Galluccio, Ahmed Amine El Oumri, King Hei Stanley Lam, Ahmed Bashawyah, Abdallah El-Sayed Allam, Faisal M. Hilal and Giustino Varrassi

Pain Physician 2022; 25:325-337


Erratum: Figure of the published manuscript titled: “Comment on the safety of the ultrasound-guided hydrodissection technique for carpal tunnel syndrome”

King Hei Stanley Lam, Wai Wah Mark Lai, Ho Yin Allen Ngai, Wing Keung Ricky Wu & Yung-Tsan Wu

J Ultrasound (2022)


Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Hydrodissection for Pain Management: From Anatomy to Techniques

King Hei Stanley Lam, Yung-Tsan Wu & Kenneth Dean Reeves

Musculoskeletal Ultrasound-Guided Regenerative Medicine, 2022, 343–354


Novel Ultrasound-Guided Cervical Intervertebral Disc Injection of Platelet-Rich Plasma for Cervicodiscogenic Pain: A Case Report and Technical Note

King Hei Stanley Lam, Chen-Yu Hung, Tsung-Ju Wu, Wei-Hung Chen, Tony Kwun Tung Ng, Jui-An Lin, Yung-Tsan Wu and Wai Wah Lai

Healthcare 2022, 10(8), 1427


The Effectiveness of Hydrodissection with 5% Dextrose for Persistent and Recurrent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Retrospective Study

Ta-Chung Chao, Kenneth Dean Reeves, King Hei Stanley Lam, Tsung-Ying Li and Yung-Tsan Wu

J. Clin. Med. 2022, 11(13), 3705


Efficacy of a Novel Intra-Articular Administration of Platelet-Rich Plasma One-Week Prior to Hyaluronic Acid versus Platelet-Rich Plasma Alone in Knee Osteoarthritis: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial

Yung-Tsan Wu, Tsung-Ying Li, Kuei-Chen Lee, King Hei Stanley Lam, Chih-Ya Chang, Cheng-Kuang Chang and Liang-Cheng Chen

J. Clin. Med. 2022, 11(11), 3241


Mechanism of Glucose Water as a Neural Injection: A Perspective on Neuroinflammation

Yung-Tsan Wu, Yen-Po Chen, King Hei Stanley Lam, Kenneth Dean Reeves, Jui-An Lin and Cheng-Yi Kuo

Life 2022, 12(6), 832


Motor-Sparing Neural Ablation with Modified Techniques for Knee Pain: Case Series on Knee Osteoarthritis and Updated Review of the Underlying Anatomy and Available Techniques

Tony Kwun-tung Ng, King Hei Stanley Lam and Abdallah El-Sayed Allam

BioMed Research International, Volume 2022, Article ID 2685898


A Novel Somatic Treatment for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Case Report of Hydrodissection of the Cervical Plexus Using 5% Dextrose

K. Dean Reeves, Jessica Shaw, Rebekah McAdam, King Hei Stanley Lam, Sean W. Mulvaney, David Rabago

Cureus 14(4): e23909.


Atlas of Interventional Orthopedics Procedures Chapter 9: Therapeutic Dextrose Injection: Prolotherapy, Perineural Injection Therapy, andHydrodissection; Atlas of Interventional Orthopedics Procedures

Kenneth Dean Reeves, Stanley K H Lam, and David Rabago

Atlas of Interventional Orthopedics Procedures (1st Edition), Elsevier, 25 February 2022


Novel Motor-Sparing Ultrasound-Guided Neural Injection in Severe Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Comparison of Four Injectates

Yung-Tsan Wu, Stanley K. H. Lam, Chia-Ying Lai, Si-Ru Chen, Yu-Ping Shen, Yu-Chi Su, Tsung-Ying Li, Chueh-Hung Wu

BioMed Research International, vol. 2022, Article ID 9745322, 10 pages, 2022


Comment on the Safety of the Ultrasound-guided Hydrodissection Technique for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Stanley K. H. Lam, Mark W. W. Lai, Allen H. Y. Ngai, Ricky W. K. Wu and Yung-Tsan Wu

Journal of Ultrasound (2022)


Commentary: Ultrasound-Guided Triamcinolone Acetonide Hydrodissection for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Stanley K. H. Lam, Mark W. W. Lai, Allen H. Y. Ngai, Ricky W. K. Wu and Yung-Tsan Wu

Front. Med. 8:833862


Efficacy of 5% Dextrose Water Injection for Peripheral Entrapment Neuropathy: A Narrative Review

Yung-Tsan Wu, Chueh-Hung Wu, Jui-An Lin, Daniel Chiung-Jui Su, Chen-Yu Hung and Stanley K. H. Lam

International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2021, 22(22), 12358



Practical Considerations for Ultrasound-Guided Hydrodissection in Pronator Teres Syndrome

Stanley K. H. Lam, Mark W. W. Lai, Allen H. Y. Ngai and Ricky W. K. Wu

Pain Medicine, pnab277



Efficacy of hypertonic dextrose injection (prolotherapy) in temporomandibular joint dysfunction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Regina Wing-Shan Sit, Kenneth Dean Reeves, Claire Chenwen Zhong, Charlene Hoi Lam Wong, Bo Wang, Vincent Chi-ho Chung, Samuel Yeung-shan Wong and David Rabago

Scientifc Reports, 2021, 11:14638




Prognostic Factors in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Treated with 5% Dextrose Perineural Injection: A Retrospective Study

Tsung-Yen Ho, Si-Ru Chen, Tsung-Ying Li, Chun-Yi Li, Stanley K. H. Lam, Liang-Cheng Chen and Yung-Tsan Wu

International Journal of Medical Sciences, 2021; 18(9): 1960–1965



Musculoskeletal Medicine in Family Practice

Allen HY Ngai

FP Links, Issue 198, August 2020, 11-13




Shear Wave Elastography to Guide Perineural Hydrodissection: Two Case Reports

Stanley K. H. Lam et al.

Diagnostics, 2020, 10(6), 348



Efficacy of Intra-articular Hypertonic Dextrose (Prolotherapy) for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Reginia Sit and Ricky Wu et al.

The Annals of Family Medicine, Volume 18, No. 3, May 2020, 235-242


Loss of the “Seesaw Sign” of the Sciatic Nerve in a Marathon Runner Complaining of Hamstring Cramping

Stanley K. H. Lam et al.

Pain Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 2, February 2020, e247-e248


Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Family Medicine

Mark W. W. Lai

FP Links, Issue 189, November 2019, 14


Intra-articular and Extra-articular Platelet-rich Plasma Injections for Knee Osteoarthritis: A 26-week, Single-arm, Pilot Feasibility Study

Reginia Sit, Ricky Wu and Andrew Ip et al.

The Knee Journal, Volume 26, Issue 5, October 2019, 1032-1040


Treatment of Temporomandibular Dysfunction With Hypertonic Dextrose Injection (Prolotherapy): A Randomized Controlled Trial With Long-term Partial Crossover

Wynand Francois Louw, K. Dean Reeves, Stanley K. H. Lam, An-Lin Cheng

Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Volume 94, Issue 5, May 2019, 820–832


Clinic-Based Patellar Mobilization Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Clinical Trial Article

Reginia Sit and Keith Chan et al.

The Annals of Family Medicine, Volume 16, No. 6, November – December 2018, 521-528



Dynamic Sonography for Snapping Knee Syndrome Caused by the Gracilis Tendon.

C. Y. Hung, K. V. Chang, S. Lam.

J Ultrasound Med, Volume 37, Issue 3, March 2018, 803-804


Clinical Effectiveness of Patella Mobilisation Therapy versus a Waiting List Control for Knee Osteoarthritis: a Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial

Regina W. S. Sit, Keith K. W. Chan, Benjamin H. K. Yip, Daisy Dexing Zhang, Kenneth Dean Reeves, Y. H. Chan, Vincent C. H. Chung, Samuel S Wong

BMJ Open, Volume 8, 2018, e019103





Clinical, Radiological and Ultrasonographic Findings Related to Knee Pain in Osteoarthritis

Keith K. W. CHAN, Regina W. S. SIT, Ricky W. K. WU, Allen H. Y. NGAI

PLoS, 2014, ONE 9(3): e92901


Symptoms, Signs and Quality of Life (QoL) in Osteoarthritis (OA)

Keith K. W. Chan and Ricky W. K. Wu

Chapter on "Symptoms, Signs and Quality of Life (QoL) in Osteoarthritis" in Bruce M. Rothschild (eds.), "Principle of Osteoarthritis, its definition, character, derivation and modality-related recognition", IntechOpen, 2012


Snapping Elbow Syndrome: A Report of Two Cases

Keith K. W. Chan and Ricky W. K. Wu

The Hong Kong Practitioner, Volume 33, No.4, December 2011, 159-168



Musculoskeletal Medicine in Family Practice

Keith K. W. Chan

The Hong Kong Practitioner, Volume 12:1-2, June 2010


Recommendations for the Use of Paracetamol in Acute and Chronic Pain

Chia Yook Chin; Keith KW Chan; Chun-Jen Liu; Harry Isbagyo; Muhaini Othman; Tran Viet Luan.

Medical Progress, Volume 37, No.17, 2010, 578-583


Three Cases of Chronic Pain Relieved with Prolotherapy

Stanley K. H. Lam

Journal of Prolotherapy, Volume 3, 2009, 163-165


Co-morbidities of Osteoarthritis Knee Patients

Keith K. W. Chan*, Allen H. Y. Ngai, Andrew K. K. Ip, Stanley H. K. Lam, Mark W. W. Lai

Hong Kong Med J, Volume 15, 2009, 31-38