A new study finds occasional cortisone shots don't appear to cause knees to deteriorate any faster than injections of hyaluronic acid.
, a substance injected to lubricate joints stiffened by arthritis, the researchers said.
of knee arthritis progression in people who'd received repeated cortisone injections, compared with people who'd never gotten the shot, Felson and his colleagues said in background notes.had ever compared the two most common types of knee arthritis injections, cortisone jabs and hyaluronic acid shots, Felson said.
"You're injecting WD40 almost into the knee. That acts to allow smoother gliding in the joint," Leber explained.The latest study looked at nearly 800 people with knee arthritis, of whom 4 out of 5 reported getting cortisone shots for their knee pain. The rest had reported receiving hyaluronic acid injections.
The message to knee arthritis patients regarding cortisone shots is simple, Felson said:"Don't be scared." "In someone who's young, in their 20s to 40s, who has very little cartilage damage but has pain, we try to use it sparingly," she continued."Would you use them on occasion in a young person? Yes. That's only as a one-time thing. You don't want to use it repetitively.
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