Treatment | Drugs and Supplements : Cortisone Injection
Cortisone is a steroid hormone. The purpose of cortisone injection is to reduce inflammation in a specific area which can relieve pain.
Some people react very positively to the injection while others do not feel its effects. If the injection helps the first time, most people continue with more injections. If the injection does not help the first time, the most people do not pursue the second injection.
See Also: Wrist and Arm pain, Lower Back Pain Treatment, Back pain treatment
Conditions Where Treatment is Used
| Condition | Average Result | Healed | Helped a Lot |
Helped a Little |
No Change | Made Worse | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Conditions |
3.0
(38)
|
3 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 4 | |
| Compound Fracture Treatment |
4.0
| ||||||
| Lower (Lumbar) Sciatica Treatment |
4.0
| ||||||
| Lower (Lumbar) Osteoarthritis - Degenerative disc disease |
3.5
| ||||||
| Lower (Lumbar) Herniated Disk |
3.0
| ||||||
| Lower (Lumbar) Pain |
3.0
| ||||||
| Lower (Lumbar) Pinched Nerve |
3.0
| ||||||
| Meniere's Disease - Inner Ear |
3.0
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| Chronic Headache |
3.0
| ||||||
| Bursitis |
3.2
| ||||||
| Osteoarthritis Hip |
3.0
| ||||||
| Pain |
1.5
| ||||||
| Hip Dysplasia Treatment |
1.0
| ||||||
| Meniscus Knee Injury |
5.0
| ||||||
| Osteoarthritis |
3.5
| ||||||
| Knee Pain Treatment |
2.5
| ||||||
| Tendinitus |
1.0
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| Epilepsy |
2.0
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| Shoulder Pain Treatment |
4.0
| ||||||
| Rotator Cuff Injury Treatment |
4.0
| ||||||
| Shoulder Bone Spur |
3.0
| ||||||
| Tendinitis |
2.0
|