30 Knee Patients Infected By Injections At Now-Closed Wall Clinic: Report

WALL, NJ — A Wall Township clinic closed earlier this month after at least 30 patients reported infections, and clinic personnel were not handling injections properly, according to a report.

NJ.com reported the facility, Osteo Relief Institute Jersey Shore, on Route 34 in Wall, closed on March 7 after patient complaints about bacterial infections contracted from injections to their knees, quoting Monmouth County Health Officer David A. Henry.

The report said state investigators found a number of violations in how injections were handled, including employees not washing their hands and needles sitting too long before patients were injected.

Osteo Relief Institute Jersey Shore, on its website, focuses on treating patients who suffer from knee pain, saying it uses "modern technology" to treat severe osteoarthritis.

"Helping you stay active, healthy, and live without or (with) less discomfort is exactly why we have created our knee pain relief program. Utilizing a combination of several procedures that have synergistic results we often have great success with positive outcomes," the website says. "Osteo Relief Institute Jersey is guided by the premise that each individual deserves to try every option available to them to avoid more aggressive and invasive procedures."

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Needle photo by Partha S. Sahana, via Flickr, under Creative Commons license