Hip Labral Tear or Impingement – Steroid Injection Not Good

Steroid injection into hip with impingement or labral tear only gave relief for 10 days.

Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2014 Feb 1.in press
Limited therapeutic benefits of intra-articular cortisone injection for patients with femoro-acetabular impingement and labral tear.
Krych AJ, Griffith TB, Hudgens JL, Kuzma SA, Sierra RJ, Levy BA.
 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24488223

  • Being a chart review, steroids were various and dose is not documented.
  • Relief didn’t even last 2 weeks:

damaged hip inject

    • Relief at time from local injection did confirm joint was the issue which was helpful.

Comment – Prior studies didn’t find much help either. Some of these people are in considerable pain and have to wait 6 month + for surgery in Canada.  I have tried steroid injection and found it didn’t help much as well. This is really disappointing. Painkillers are the key…

 

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