How Do You Understand Whether Steroid Injections Help Osteoarthritis Pain?
Arthritis steroid injections are commonly used for painful arthritic knees. Do they really work and are they safe? Do you have sore arthritic knees that keep you from enjoying the simple pleasures in life? If you experience daily pain and stiffness from osteoarthritis of the knees, your doctor may have offered to give you a steroid injection to help relieve some of the chronic pain and discomfort. Arthritis steroid injections into the knees are thought to reduce some of the inflammatory changes that cause arthritic knees to be so painful and stiff with movement, particularly when you get up in the morning. Do they really work and are there side effects? According to a meta-analysis (an analysis of a group of studies), arthritis steroid injections appear to provide some relief of joint pain, at least temporarily. The researchers found that patients who received knee joint injections for osteoarthritis had significantly lower levels of pain during the week after the injections. At the en
