Cortisone Injections for Carpal Tunnel

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A common treatment for relieving carpal tunnel pain, numbness and tingling is to inject cortisone directly into your wrist joint. This steroid shot can sometimes reduce swelling and pain. However, steroid shots do not work about half of the time. • Carpal tunnel syndrome (sometimes just “carpal tunnel”) happens because a nerve inside your wrist joint gets squeezed by surrounding swollen tissue. This produces the signs and symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome like pain, numbness or pins-and-needles in your hand and fingers, especially in the base of your thumb. If left untreated carpal tunnel syndrome may go away by itself, but it often just becomes worse with time. • An international team of doctors examined the results of many clinical trials to determine how effective steroid shots really are compared to other treatments. They found that steroid injections were only slightly better than other therapies. Either the shots didn’t work as well or they didn’t work at all. In those patients where the injections had some effect, symptoms relief lasted only a few weeks in some, while it lasted over a year in others. In 20% of the cases, there was no difference between the shots and other less invasive treatments like braces. The doctors concluded that injections for carpal tunnel syndrome are not as good as once assumed, and they also cautioned about the adverse side effects of steroid shots. In summary, they caution doctors to prescribe steroid shots only when absolutely necessary. • An inexpensive and highly effective alternative to steroid shots is using a traction brace like the Carpal-Rx. It is designed to get rid of symptoms permanently by applying traction to your wrist joint. Traction on your wrist joint relieves the pain, tingling, and numbness of carpal tunnel syndrome because traction widens your carpal tunnel. That takes pressure off your median nerve deep inside, and symptoms disappear fast and for good. • The Carpal-Rx is the simplest, safest, most affordable and most effective remedy available today. So don’t mess with an expensive and risky therapy like steroid shots. Get better, safer results with the Carpal-Rx! • http://www.Buy-The-CarpaRX.com • References • 1) Huisstede BM, et. al., Carpal Syndrome. Part 1: Effectiveness of nonsurgical treatments – a systematic review. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2010; 91: 981-1004. [PubMed] • 2) Marshall S, et. al., Local corticosteroid injection for carpal tunnel syndrome. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007, No. 2

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