By how much does the speaker claim steroid injections accelerate arthritis?

Dr. Joshua John-Ram SchacterDr. Joshua Schacter, DO FAAOS, is America’s Holistic Orthopedic Surgeon, with nearly two decades of surgical expertise.

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31 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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This YouTube transcript excerpt discusses moving patients off the ‘hamster wheel’ of repeated steroid injections by offering alternative options such as wellness programs and focused orthobiologic treatments, which the speaker argues can buy more time and cause less joint damage. The speaker asserts steroid injections are cheap and insurance-covered but claims they accelerate arthritis by about 20% per year.

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About 20% per year.

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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 buy themselves a lot more time than just steroid injection? Steroid injection. Steroid injection. 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?