Hello. I am Dr. Sang-ju Lee, a board-certified dermatologist. Keloid scars appear as raised formations on the skin and can be accompanied by itching or pain. One of the most common treatments for keloid scars is injection therapy. Injecting Triamcinolone into the keloid area can help alleviate symptoms like itching and pain, and effectively reduce the height of the raised scar.
Why is Keloid Injection So Painful?
Keloid injection is an effective treatment, but it has one critical drawback: severe pain. The injection pain is so intense that many patients give up during treatment. Anti-inflammatory drugs like Triamcinolone, commonly used for keloid injections, help alleviate keloid symptoms and reduce their size, but they can cause temporary pain when injected into the skin.
Patients sometimes describe keloid injection pain as a "stabbing pain" or "skin tearing pain." Keloids are characterized by the formation of hard scar tissue in the skin, and the severe pain is believed to be caused by the pressure and irritation that occur when the medication is injected into this firm tissue.
Can Keloid Injections Be Administered Without Pain?
Yes, it is possible. Through continuous research, our clinic has developed and applied a low-pain vibration therapy that can significantly reduce the pain of keloid injections. This method can dramatically lower the pain experienced by patients during keloid injection treatment.
Principle of Low-Pain Vibration Therapy
Our bodies perceive pain through nerves, and vibration and pain use the same nerves. Therefore, when vibration is used along with an injection, the sensations of vibration and pain are transmitted through the same neural pathway. In this process, the sensation of pain is relatively less perceived.
Many people have experienced the injection site being tapped when receiving a buttock injection or when a vein is being located. This is based on the same principle where signals are dispersed through the nerves, resulting in less pain.
How Effective is Vibration Therapy?
Our clinic's internal tests confirmed that using low-pain vibration therapy for keloid injections significantly reduced pain. Assuming the pain intensity of keloid scar injections received at other clinics is 10, injections with vibration therapy showed a reduction in pain to a level of 3. This indicates a pain reduction effect of over 70%.
The Medication's Efficacy Remains Unchanged
The medication used for keloid treatment is fundamentally almost identical to that used in other clinics. Therefore, using low-pain vibration therapy does not diminish the medication's efficacy. On the contrary, because patients can tolerate the injection treatment well with almost no pain, sufficient medication effects can be achieved, and in some cases, even better treatment outcomes can be expected.
If you have any questions about low-pain keloid injection therapy, please feel free to contact us at any time.