Steroid Injections – Long Term Effect

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          Vern Gambetta on October 19, 2006 at 4:20 am #12279

          This article appeared in the Science Section of yesterday New York Times. It certainly made me think of all the steroid injections I have seen during my involvement in sport. Short term gain, for long tern loss, unfortunately in professional and high level collegiate sport this goes on all the time. “Treatment: Tennis Elbow, Advice: Spare the Steroid Injections Steroid injections for t

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          mjstocko on October 19, 2006 at 12:55 pm #68043

          Yeah I had a doctor tell me to get a steroid injection in my hamstring origin, then my trainer convinced me not to.

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on October 20, 2006 at 7:49 am #58055

          I believe many of the NFL players of the 70s experienced this first hand when cortisone shots were given out like bandaids.

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