Steroid injection for heel pain: evidence of short-term effectiveness. A randomized controlled trial
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Steroid injection for heel pain: evidence of short-term effectiveness. A randomized controlled trial.
OBJECTIVES To compare the effectiveness of a steroid injection (25 mg/ml prednisolone acetate) with a local anaesthetic control in the treatment of heel pain and to determine any advantage for patients' comfort of using a posterior tibial nerve block to anesthetize the heel prior to infiltration. METHODS A double-blind randomized controlled trial using a 2 x 2 design in a hospital-based rheum...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rheumatology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1462-0332,1462-0324
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/38.10.974