Researchers looked at 459 patients in a US hospital who had received one to three corticosteroid injections into a knee or hip. Of those patients, 36 of them, or 8%, experienced adverse events in their joints, as shown on medical imaging tests.
The shots may be doing more harm than good.In a new study published in the journal Radiology, researchers looked at 459 patients in a US hospital who had received one to three corticosteroid injections into a knee or hip.Of those patients, 36 of them, or 8%, experienced adverse events in their joints, as shown on medical imaging tests.
Richard Kijowski, a professor of radiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, wrote an editorial accompanying the recent study saying the objective of the journal's special report was"to educate radiologists that the intra-articular corticosteroid injection they routinely perform with little, if any, thought about long-term safety may cause more harm than benefit.
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