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If there ever were a magic bullet for recovering from an injury cortisone shots might be it.
Of course like all magic, it requires distraction from what’s truly occurring for it to work. In other words, you might feel like a million bucks, but you haven’t resolved the cause of the pain and that means it might very well return.
During my first visit with the Orthopedic surgeon he offered me a cortisone shot, while we waited things out with PT to see if surgery was really necessary.
I declined having heard various things about long term issues and knowing that overall I wasn’t in unbearable pain. Not like in 2007, when I cried in joy when the sports medicine doctor injected my IT Band.
Without my even knowing it, I’d made a great choice.
There’s a vast difference between injecting tendons and a cortisone knee injection…so here’s what we all need to know before thinking we’ve found the magic bullet. Cortisone injection side effects in the knee could be substantial.
Let’s get a better understanding of these injections and then I’ll answer some of your top questions from my discussions with multiple physicians and PT’s.
