Corticosteroid injection for lateral epicondylalgia is helpful in the short term, but harmful in the longer term; data for non-corticosteroid injections and other tendinopathies are limited

Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 116-117

  Orchard, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOSE; HYALURONIC ACID;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; DE QUERVAIN TENOSYNOVITIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPICONDYLITIS; GLUCOSE PROLOTHERAPY; GLUTEAL TENDINOPATHY; HUMAN; ILIOTIBIAL BAND FRICTION SYNDROME; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NOTE; PATELLA TENDINONPATHY; PES ANSERINUS BURSITIS; POSTERIOR ANKLE IMPINGEMENT; POSTERIOR ANKLE TENDINOPATHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCLEROTHERAPY; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TENDINITIS; TENNIS ELBOW; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TREATMENT DURATION; TROCHANTERIC BURSITIS;

EID: 79960631947     PISSN: 13565524     EISSN: 14736810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ebm1202     Document Type: Note

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