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.
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Describe what happened, how you treated it, and what's going on today For about 4 years now I have been suffering with my right knee. I have been under doctor's care. I have received cortisone injection and rooster comb injection(I do not know the medical terminology of this procedure) and I was taken various prescription drugs for treatment. Nothing has ...
Cortisone Injection is Used For These Conditions
| Condition | Average Result | Healed | Helped a Lot |
Helped a Little |
No Change | Made Worse | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Conditions (average) |
3.0
(53)
|
3 | 14 | 22 | 9 | 5 | |
| Compound Fracture |
4.0
| ||||||
| Sciatica |
4.0
| ||||||
| Osteoarthritis - Degenerative Disc Disease |
3.5
| ||||||
| Pinched Nerve |
3.0
| ||||||
| Herniated Disk |
2.9
| ||||||
| Pain |
2.3
| ||||||
| Rheumatoid Arthritis |
4.0
| ||||||
| Fibromyalgia |
3.5
| ||||||
| Meniere's Disease - Inner Ear |
3.0
| ||||||
| Chronic Headache |
3.0
| ||||||
| Bursitis |
3.3
| ||||||
| Osteoarthritis |
3.0
| ||||||
| Pain |
2.0
| ||||||
| Dysplasia |
1.0
| ||||||
| Meniscus Knee Injury |
4.5
| ||||||
| Osteoarthritis |
3.2
| ||||||
| Pain |
2.5
| ||||||
| Tendinitus |
1.0
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| Epilepsy |
2.0
| ||||||
| Pain |
4.0
| ||||||
| Rotator Cuff Injury |
4.0
| ||||||
| Bone Spurs |
3.0
| ||||||
| Tendinitis |
2.0
|
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