Patients with Plantar Fasciitis now have a choice above surgery as per Luca M. Sconfienza, M.D., of the University of Genoa.

Sconfienza in the Radiological Society of North America meeting remarked that dry needling can prove to be one of the most effective treatment options when it comes to reducing inflammation in patients with Plantar Fasciitis.

This treatment option can be exercised by inducing local bleeding in an area where the steroids are expected to be administered via injection into the perifascial soft tissue rather than injecting directly into the fascia. It was revealed during the study that dry needling along with steroid injections can help patients who have almost lost the hope fighting against Plantar Fasciitis.

From Medpagetoday.com:

“It’s a very good [method] because we allow nature to work for us,” Dr. Sconfienza said. When bleeding is induced around the fascia, platelets respond, helping the tissue to heal spontaneously.

He said the combination treatment could be a good alternative to other remedies that have met with varying degrees of success for treating plantar fasciitis,

No widely accepted therapy for the disease has been established, the researchers said. Shockwaves, which send sound waves through the heel, is expensive and painful, Dr. Sconfienza said, and its long-term efficacy has not been established.

Other more conservative treatments, such as stretching in the morning, weight loss, and NSAIDS, are frequently used as well. Surgery is a last resort.

It was suggested that tissues can be expected to heal spontaneously through respond of platelets when bleeding is induced around the fascia. It is further believed that this treatment can also be used to treat tennis elbow. It was remarked in the meeting that further research will help the involved researchers in exploring more treatment options by comparing options such as dry needling alone, no treatment, and dry needling with steroids.

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There was a better relief of symptoms when people suffering with the Carpal tunnel syndrome used the steroid injections. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a painful condition of the wrist resulting from compression of the median nerve that runs from the base of the palm up to the forearm affecting people who perform repetitive hand motions, including computer users, dental hygienists, and even golfers and tennis players.

Sources say that a non-surgical treatment is also as good as invasive surgery in curing the painful symptoms related to carpel tunnel syndrome. In the Standard treatment for the symptoms of carpel tunnel syndrome, splinting and pain relievers like ibuprofen are used. When those methods fail to help, many patients switch over to surgery option to decompress the nerve. However, another new option is to receive steroid injections to relieve symptoms.

From BIO-MEDICINE:

Researchers say “a non-surgical treatment is just as good as invasive surgery in relieving painful symptoms associated  with carpel tunnel syndrome. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a painful condition of the wrist resulting from compression of the median nerve that runs from the base of the palm up to the forearm affecting people who perform repetitive hand motions, including computer users, dental hygienists, and even golfers and tennis players.”

According to the sources, a recent study conducted by researchers, compared results between people who had been experiencing symptoms of the condition for at least three months. Patients were randomly asked to receive either surgery or the steroid injections and results showed that there was no difference in outcomes between the groups over the long term, and in the short term, people who received the injections actually reported better relief of symptoms.

This shows that steroids work well to cure the symptoms of the carpal tunnel syndrome. On the basis of the report by the sources we can conclude that steroids are effective and are as good as the surgery in the treatment of the carpal tunnel syndrome.

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Federal prosecutors on the Barry Bonds case have brought in more witnesses to testify against the former Giants catcher. While Greg Anderson, Bonds’ former trainer still doesn’t want to show up in court, several close friends of Bonds will be used as government witnesses to testify that the athlete had indeed used anabolic steroids in his career.

Among the list of witnesses are Kathy Hoskins and her brother Steve Hoskins, both childhood friends of Bonds. The defense was already aware that Steve would be testifying although they have just recently learned of Kathy’s participation. Kathy used to be Bonds’ assistant and personal shopper, and had traveled with him in several occasions.

From San Francisco Chronicle:

And for the first time, prosecutors said they have a witness who says she saw Bonds being injected by Anderson – Hoskins, who is also the sister of Bonds’ former longtime business manager, Steve Hoskins, another key government witness.

In 2003, Steve Hoskins secretly tape-recorded a conversation in which Anderson described the regimen of undetectable drugs he was giving Bonds, the government says.

In Friday’s filing, prosecutors did not assert that the injection Bonds allegedly received from Anderson contained banned drugs. Nevertheless, the claim is significant, because in his testimony before the grand jury that investigated BALCO, Bonds said he had never received an injection of any kind from Anderson, saying he had received injections only from doctors.

Kim Bell, Bonds‘ former girlfriend will also be standing in as a witness although the defense has claimed that she would be doing it in order to publicize her tell-all book. Bell claimed that Bonds admitted to her that he had been injecting with anabolic steroids and that she had also noticed steroid side effects including back acne and shrunken testicles.

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