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Knee arthritis made worse with steroid injections

Researchers comparing two injections commonly used to relieve knee pain from osteoarthritis—corticosteroid and hyaluronic acid—found that corticosteroid injections were associated with higher ...
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Cortisone Shots Do More Harm Than Good? Knee Injections Could Actually Make Arthritis Worse, Major Study Suggests

SAN FRANCISCO — Getting a cortisone shot for knee arthritis might provide quick pain relief, but new research reveals a troubling association: those steroid injections may be linked to faster joint ...

Glucocorticoid injection shows little benefit for knee osteoarthritis, clinical trial finds

Researchers in China have found no statistically significant advantage for infrapatellar fat pad glucocorticoid injection ...
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Treatment of knee osteoarthritis with a single injection of autologous micro-fragmented adipose tissue is not superior to a placebo saline injection: a blinded randomised ...

1 Sports Orthopedic Research Center–Copenhagen (SORC-C), Arthroscopic Center, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager-Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark Objective To ...