Perhaps Not as Safe as We Thought? (Intra-articular Corticosteroid Injections)

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:03:32 +0200

alimentazione3690@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Doctors have long considered a single injection of steroids—the type that come from the adrenal glands and modulate the body’s stress response—to be a pretty harmless way to temporarily relieve pain in a joint.

But now he has come to believe that the procedure is more dangerous than he knew. And he and a group of his Boston University colleagues are raising a warning flag for doctors and patients alike.

A Warning From a Doctor Who Has Done Thousands of Steroid Injections for Arthritis (2019, TheAtlantic)

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Intra-articular Corticosteroid Injections in the Hip and Knee: Perhaps Not as Safe as We Thought? (2019, Radiology)

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Sat, 26 Oct 2019 13:01:36 +0200

Alimentazione e quello che sta intorno

alimentazione3690@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy

Doctors are just people, too. :-)

What I can say is that often a more or less large effusion is punctured before the injection.
This alone means a considerable relief for the patient. What is finally injected, if necessary at all, depends very individually on the wealth of experience and billing habits of the respective doctor.

What I find important in this article is the clear hint that even a single corticosteriod injection should be considered very carefully, more than one is used to.