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Dr Oliver Seyfried
Wimbledon Clinics
Is it OK to play sports while on painkillers or steroid injections?
Dr Oliver Seyfriedexplains that it is best to follow the advice of your doctor, and that gentle and measured exercise is very reasonable. He warns that is very important to not increase your exercise level too quickly.
Transcript
I think gentle and measured exercise is absolutely reasonable whilst you're on painkillers and having steroid injections. It's important, though, that if you do feel considerably better following the treatment that you don't up the level of exercise to too great a degree. Remember that pain is often there to decrease tissue injury, and if you mask it, further tissue injury could occur.
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