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Breeze
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wesley90 said:
I've had a few over the years. I occasionaly get laryngitis and lose my voice for days. Cortisone seems to be the only quick fix for that problem. I also had a doc give me a few several years ago as part of my therapy for chronic back pain. The shots would make me feel like a million bucks and I would think my back was healed when in fact it was only covering up my symptoms for a little while. One of the big dangers with cortisone and sports injuries is that it gives people the false impression that they are healed before they actually are, which can prolong an injury or make it worse.
junk
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Cortisone is rarely a good option, interrupting your body's natural inflammatory process is not the way to go, the inflammatory process is essential for the healing of the injury. Unless the inflammation threathens on permanently damaging nerves (which is very rare) or the pain become incredibly unbearable, avoid anti-i but especially cortisone shots if you can. The right way is not to get rid of the inflammation through the use of meds but treat the source of the problem that caused the injury, in many cases of shoulder injuries, weak rotator cuffs are the reason. Prolotherapy (sometimes done along with spot hGH injections), as well as chiro rehab work, supplementation, stretching and other rehab work is the right longterm solution. Cortisone may be the answer for the immediate pain, but trust me, in the majority of cases, the pain will come back sometime later as the injury and it's cause were never treated. Usually getting more painful each time, take a look at tennis players who religously take cortisone shots as they cannot afford to loose tournaments. See what happens to them later on.. hint: recent absence of a great tennis player from the championship. happens all the time and is more pronounced as years going by.
Take care,
Take care,
It will enter your system but in small quantity.
That is the idea behind giving it directly in shoulder joint instead of an IM injection.
It would be very concentrated in the joint but small amount in circulation.
That much probably would not significantly effect your gains.
That is the idea behind giving it directly in shoulder joint instead of an IM injection.
It would be very concentrated in the joint but small amount in circulation.
That much probably would not significantly effect your gains.
I agree that it is better to exhaust all traditonal treatments first but when that does not work cortisone is the way to go. My pain was real bad for about 5 months and and I couldn't train properly. Got the cortisone and am now pain free and can train perfectly well. I would not hesitate to do it again if necessary. I got some big meets coming up and I would never have made it without the cortisone.
papa gorgio
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west, the localized pain is the size of the pin! did u see it? it has to be a 16 or 18 gauge and real long.
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