Steroid injections are one of the most common injections given for pain and swelling across the world to relieve pain and swelling. This, unfortunately, leads to more long term damages to the joint architecture and cartilage loss and the high dose that is injected is toxic to the cells and other body tissues.
Steroid shots are usually repeated and with each repetition the chances of effective pain relief diminishes, the chances of infection goes up, the increase in bone loss in older women and chances of osteoporosis goes high. Multiple studies in peer reviewed journals have also shown that high doses of steroids leads to double the volume of cartilage loss and did not help pain better than a placebo https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2626573.
Several other new studies also focused on the risk of infection in patients undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery to have increased by 37% post steroid injections https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25250699.
In addition, there is a 2.14 times chance of developing some sort of complication after steroid shots in patients undergoing replacement surgery and 3.16 times the patient is likely to develop some infection as discussed in a new study https://josr-online.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s13018-018-1036-2.
So what is the alternative? The best is undergoing orthobiologics that is Super concentrated PRP treatment to help relive your joint pain as its your own blood product and is potentially harmless and may actually help in restoring and rejuvenating the joint and cartilage instead of causing volume loss and infection.
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