Steroid Injections For Pain | Injection Treatment | Painful Joints

All steroid type injections are designed to relieve pain by relieving inflammation.

All of the steroids that are commonly used for injection are from the anti inflammatory family of drugs.

They include drugs like Kenalog (triamcinolone), Depomedrol or Depomedrone (methylprednisolone) and hydrocortisone acetate.

Steroid injections for pain work by relieving and switching off the inflammation cells and inflammation pain pathways in the vicinity of the area injected.

Most of the injected steroid drugs will stay around in the system for up to ten days, working away slowly to clear up inflammation damage and thus reduce pain. Not all pain conditions will respond to a steroid injection - because not all pain conditions have inflammation as the cause of the problem.