{"id":209,"date":"2023-04-05T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/?p=209"},"modified":"2023-04-19T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:16:10","slug":"time-for-an-injection-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/2023\/04\/05\/time-for-an-injection-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Time For An Injection? Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-209\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-209-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-209-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-209-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-210 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bucket_fire_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"200\" \/>When is the best time to have a steroid injection?\u00a0 Steroid medications can be very effective in decreasing inflammation.\u00a0 The best way to put out a fire is sometimes to dump a big bucket of water right on the fire.\u00a0 That\u2019s kind of how we might best explain a steroid injection.\u00a0 By putting the medication precisely at the spot of the inflammation (ie the \u201cfire\u201d), it can be most effective.\u00a0 Often in our office we use ultrasound to localize the precise location of the inflammation and to inject the medication exactly in that spot.\u00a0 So how long does an injection last?\u00a0 It all depends on how big the fire is and how big the bucket of water is!\u00a0 It is hard to predict but often is an effective tool in our toolbox. Learn more about \u201ccortisone\u201d injections\u00a0<a title=\"Cortisone Injection\" href=\"http:\/\/wvortho.com\/orthoblogs\/have-you-ever-had-cortisone-injection\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is the best time to have a steroid injection?\u00a0 Steroid medications can be very effective in decreasing inflammation.\u00a0 The best way to put out a fire is sometimes to dump a big bucket of water right on the fire.\u00a0 That\u2019s kind of how we might best explain a steroid injection.\u00a0 By putting the medication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}