Steroid injections, also known as corticosteroid injections, are anti-inflammatory drugs used to treat various ... with ...

But steroid injections are an increasingly popular option for lower-back pain—even though the Food and Drug Administration ... to support the use of any type of injection therapy for pain ...

There are dozens of medications available ... in combination to keep the dose of steroids as low as possible. There are several versions of hyaluronan injections, also called viscosupplementation ...

Abusers frequently take two or more anabolic steroids together, mixing oral and/or injectable types, sometimes adding drugs such as ... can develop at the injection site, causing pain and abscess.

Dr. Wadler, a New York University School of Medicine professor and lead author of the book Drugs and the Athlete ... "Although there are many types of steroids with varying degrees of anabolic ...

Most of the time we won't use injections without having a patient participate in other treatment options like physical therapy, oral pain medications ... for cortisone. Another type of injection ...

Those with a history of previous lumbar spine surgery or those who had received epidural steroid ... drug leading to adrenal suppression. This study was performed without the use of a sham ...