Downsides of steroid injections for hip pain – What 3 patients taught me

Three patients with chronic hip pain prompted me to dive deeper into the effectiveness and risks of the common intervention of corticosteroid injection for musculoskeletal pain syndromes. Patient A complains of difficulty lifting his leg to put his pants on when standing and difficulty lifting his leg to transfer into his car. He had a…

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Hip-Spine vs Spine-Hip vs Both – 3 Case Examples Lessons Learned

Hand is on red painful buttock

An 80-year-young woman visited her primary care physician with “pain going down my leg”. She had difficulty grocery shopping, picking up her small dog. X-rays showed osteoarthritis in her lumbar spine, and she was diagnosed with “sciatica.” The doctor referred her to a spine surgeon, who ordered an MRI and gave her an x-ray-guided spinal…

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