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The American Journal of Sports Medicine 1:31-37 (1973)
© 1973 SAGE Publications

The effect of local steroid injections on tendon

Louis J. Unverferth, M.D.

Melvin L. Olix, M.D.

The repeated use of local steroid injections in the treatment of tenosynovitis in the active athlete is to be abandoned, not only because it masks the symptoms of tenosynovitis, giving the patient a false sense of security, but also because local injection of steroid decreases the tensile strength of tendon and predisposes it to complete rupture.






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