Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains how pain management has shifted away from steroid injections and opioids. Fifteen years ago, doctors gave injections every three months without understanding the risks. Now the focus is on healthier alternatives while still treating pain seriously.
About fifteen years ago.
Every three months.
It is important to have other options for patients that are more healthy than those old school ideas of how to treat pain. Fifteen years ago, we did.
Steroid injections willy nilly because.
We really didn't think.
That there was a lot of downside to them.
We didn't understand. We didn't really understand.
And so.
We would do them and.
Do these and, you know, some patients every three months, especially if they really weren't a good surgical.
Candidate, because we didn't have in a lot of other options, you didn't have anything else to give them. Pain is real. And I know we talk a lot about trying to stay away from steroid injections and opioid treatments and all these things. And we're not saying that we don't treat the pain and that the pain isn't important, but it, it is important to, to have other options for patients that are more healthy than those old school ideas of how to treat pain.
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