Cortisone Injections

Cortisone Injections

Downtown Pain Physicians Of Brooklyn

Our spine doctors use cortisone injection as a safe and effective pain relief treatment for many orthopedic problems, including tendonitis, arthritis, and bursitis. As an anti-inflammatory medication, cortisone works by preventing collagen production in the joints. Cortisone injection provides immediate relief from pain that can last for several months. The doctor can also use this treatment for inflammation in a specific tendon or joint or with widespread inflammation throughout your body. These include rheumatoid arthritis, allergic reactions, asthma, frozen shoulder osteoarthritis, and gout that might affect your joints. As experts in pain management and pain control, our physicians offer a comprehensive, personalized, and time-tested treatment plan that focuses on your specific level of pain. Visit our pain centers located in Downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan and meet our physicians to get the pain under control in the safe, reassuring hands of New York’s top-rated doctor, Dr. Raj Raval, MD.

Cortisone injections are used to treat inflammation and thus reduce pain. These problems could occur anywhere in the body, and the cortisone injections are targeted at the problem area. Since the use of cortisone for reducing inflammation was discovered in 1951, it has now become a common form of treatment.

Part of the reason for its widespread use is that cortisone injections rarely have any adverse side effects. Even so, it is still mandatory that an individual get an X-ray and possibly an MRI scan to prove that the underlying cause of pain is inflammation. When all recommended steps are followed, there are usually no adverse side-effects, but there are still exceptions.

Cortisone Injections