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Dr Oliver Seyfried
Wimbledon Clinics
What are the alternatives to steroid injections?
Dr Oliver Seyfried lists some of the alternatives to steroid injections,including local anesthetic in the elite sporting world, dry needling, and proto-therapy.
Transcript
There's little peer reviewed evidence to any alternatives to steroid injections at present. In the elite sporting world local anaesthetic injections in the short term have been used and are currently not bound by any government bodies. Aside from that, there are such techniques as prolotherapy and dry needling. There's little evidence to support these, but you can find many practitioners and patients who will swear by their efficacy.
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