Studies show that common treatments for joint pain can make arthritis worse.

A common injection to treat arthritis may speed up the onset of the disease rather than prevent it, according to a new study.

both of them the study Presented Tuesday at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

File: Osteoarthritis of the knee. Cartilage destruction in different areas of the knee joint then wear. Frontal MRI scan of the knee.
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In the first study, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, studied patients who had been diagnosed with osteoarthritis, the most common form of the disease, affecting more than 32 million adults in the United States. .

Of the subjects, 70 received intra-articular injections, while 140 did not during the two-year period. Statistical analysis showed that corticosteroid knee injections were “significantly associated” with the overall development of osteoarthritis in the knee.

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According to the study, the group that received hyaluronic injections showed a reduction in the progression of osteoarthritis, particularly in the marrow lesions.

In another study, researchers at the Chicago Medical School of Roseland-Franklin University of Medicine and Science studied the progression of osteoarthritis in patients who received injections of corticosteroids and hyaluronic acid.

Patients injected with corticosteroids had a “significantly greater” increase in osteoarthritis – including narrowing of the medial joint space – compared to patients injected with hyaluronic acid.

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Researcher and medical student Azad Darbandi said in a statement, “The findings suggest that hyaluronic acid injections should be further explored for the management of knee osteoarthritis symptoms, and steroid injections should be used with greater caution. Should.”