JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and several other institutions say they have developed a quick clinical test that predicts which people with neck pain are more likely to benefit from epidural steroid injections, which deliver drugs directly around the spinal nerves to stop nerve inflammation and reduce pain. The...
By LUKE ANDREWS HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 06:59 EST, 29 November 2022 | UPDATED: 07:53 EST, 29 November 2022 Steroid injections used to treat arthritis in the knee may actually make the condition worse, two studies suggest. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Chicago Medical School gathered data from hundreds of osteoarthritis patients to gauge how their condition would react...
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY ATLANTA — New research shows that corticosteroid injections for knee OA treatment do not hasten a patient’s progression to a total knee replacement when compared with hyaluronic acid injections. Details of this study was presented at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology’s annual meeting (ABSTRACT #1652). Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common...
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Boston)– Although frequently used to treat painful osteoarthritis of the hip and knee, intra-articular corticosteroid (IACS) injections remain controversial. Questions about whether damage to joints occurs as a result of these injections, which are performed thousands a time each day, persist. Osteoarthritis of the hip and knee is among the...
