A short video transcript excerpt arguing that common treatments for arthritis (notably steroid injections) may accelerate joint degeneration—citing a claim of 'accelerating your arthritis by 20% per year'—and advocating offering patients alternatives such as wellness programs and focused orthobiologics to avoid a harmful 'hamster wheel' of care.
But in the end of the day, it's accelerating your arthritis by 20% per year, then why not try some other stuff? How do we not be on that hamster wheel? How do we provide patients with options that they can choose to do one of our wellness programs or choose to do focused orthobiologics? And by themselves, a lot more time than just steroid injection. Steroids. And part of the problem with the hamster wheel that we have right now is the treatments that we're using are not as effective as some other ones, and then they're also damaging to the joint. Right. So if a steroid injection is what we can do because it's cheap. Right. And your insurance pays for it, but in the end of the day, it's accelerating your arthritis by 20% per year, then why not try some other stuff?
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