Honeylight
Well-Known Member
I just read a book about the science of exercise by this journalist and it said that cortisone injections enable you to exercise sooner after injury, but they actually impede the mending process. ie it's a patch-up, painkilling job. But I don't think medicine realised that until recently.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/do-cortisone-shots-actually-make-things-worse/
I had a cortisone injection for a frozen shoulder & I had never before experienced such sever pain & I have had heart & brain surgery & broken bones. My shoulder is a lot better but it may have improved any way. I would certainly not have another one.