Steroid jabs used to treat joint pain could be doing more harm than good

Needles

After she wrenched her right shoulder when she slipped cleaning her shower, Abigail Drummond was in pretty bad pain.

‘It was excruciating,’ recalls the 60-year-old former model. An X-ray found no broken bones, but when the pain persisted, she decided to use her private healthcare to have a more detailed MRI scan.

This showed two tendons in her shoulder were badly torn and another severely damaged. All the doctor offered was a steroid injection — a treatment used to reduce inflammation.

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