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Your doctor will start by cleaning your skin at After Your Injection
the injection site. Next, youll be injected
with local anesthetics (short term pain relief) After being injected, make sure you dont
and cortisone. It may take a moment for your injure the treated region. Stay active. Enjoy a
doctor to place the needle in the precise walk or some other mild activity. Just be
region. The size of the needle varies based on careful not to strain the region that gave you
the location of the injection, but always the trouble.
smallest needle is chosen to deliver adequate
medication. A small bandage will be placed Prognosis
over the injection site and youll be ready to
go home. Each patient has a variable sensitivity to
cortisone, and so it is impossible to predict
The Next Day or Two how well or long a cortisone injection will
work for each patient. Patients gain relief FALMOUTH ORTHOPAEDIC CENTER
Most patients notice a response to the anywhere from a few months to years of ________________________________
cortisone 4-5 days after the injection, but it relief. You may receive repeat injections if
may take up to 2 weeks to reach its maximal your pain does return. These decisions are Philip S. Anson M.D.
effect. Some patients feel more pain after made on an individual basis between the
being injected this is normal and it will patient and your doctor. Mats Agren M.D.
dissipate over the next several days.
Stephen W. Rodrigue M.D.