Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results showed patients who received corticosteroid injections had increased medial joint space narrowing and ...

Cortisone (or steroid) injections have become increasingly popular over the years for people looking to address chronic joint pain and inflammation. Why have they become so popular? Well, for starters ...

On a daily basis, I am asked what the downsides of cortisone injections are. The answer depends on location of the injection, medical history, type of steroid used, and technique. Steroid injections ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: I have osteoarthritis in my knee that continues to worsen. Would a steroid injection help my knee pain? How long does the treatment last, and how often can it be repeated, if ...

The use of sacroiliac joint injection with anesthetic and corticosteroid may not be efficacious for sacroiliac joint pain. The use of sacroiliac joint (SIJ) injection with anesthetic and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Musa Zaid, MD, and colleagues from the department of orthopedic surgery at the University of California, San ...

Steroid injections can relieve joint pain but may cause long-term tissue damage. Alternatives like hyaluronic acid, PRP, and stem cell therapies offer safer, effective relief without harmful side ...

Intra-articular injections of corticosteroids for relief of the pain of hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) may have adverse long-term consequences, researchers suggested. These injections are commonly ...

"[I]it is difficult to extrapolate what we have observed over longer periods, i.e., 5 or 10 years. Concerning the frequency of injection, the data from Timothy McAlindon (Boston) suggest that we ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. - Corticosteroid injections used to treat osteoarthritis pain in the hip and knee may be more dangerous than previously thought, according to a special report published in the journal ...

Knee osteoporosis affects an estimated 10 percent of men and 13 percent of women aged 60 or older in the United States. Credit: Photo by Anna Auza on Unsplash Researchers at Boston University School ...