corticosteroids and your chronic pain
CORTICOSTEROIDS AND YOUR CHRONIC PAIN “Corticosteroids are perhaps the most enigmatic of all the drugs in the western medicine man’s arsenal. It has been said by many practitioners that they are the most used and most abused of all our medicines. Corticosteroids are a necessary component of a healthy physiology and they can be life […]
plantar fasciitis and corticosteroid injections
CORTICOSTEROID INJECTIONSAND PLANTAR FASCIITIS “Physicians have frequently used corticosteroid injections to treat plantar fasciitis.” From Podiatry Today’s 2013 article called An Evidence-Based Medicine Approach To Plantar Fasciitis A couple sentences after telling us that, “A variety of existing conservative therapeutic options are generally reported as being successful in the treatment of plantar fasciitis,” Dr. Allen […]
new government guidelines on corticosteroid injections
CORTICOSTEROID INJECTIONSHAVE YOU SEEN THE LATEST GUIDELINES? “Using predefined criteria, we selected randomized trials of patients with LUMBOSACRAL RADICULOPATHY, SPINAL STENOSIS, NON-RADICULAR BACK PAIN, or chronic POST-SURGICAL BACK PAIN that compared effectiveness or harms of epidural, FACET JOINT, or SACROILLIAC corticosteroid injections versus placebo or other interventions. Epidural corticosteroid injections are the most commonly used […]
shoulder pain & cortisone inections
CORTICOSTEROID INJECTIONS Image by Zezounet Although CORTICOSTEROID INJECTIONS are one of the most common medical treatments for pain in the shoulder as well as pain in other joints (spine included), are they really the best option? Back when synthetic cortisone was first invented just after WWII, it was hailed as another of the “medical miracles” […]