Show 1080: What Works for Pain Relief and Why

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Pain is one of the most common reasons people seek medical care. But physicians often face a dilemma when they treat joint pain, back pain or muscle spasms with prescription pills. Drugs that relieve pain effectively frequently carry frightening side effects, especially over the long term. Problems with NSAIDs for Pain Relief: Doctors usually rely on a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.3	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.8	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.2	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:29.6	Do you have noisy knees? Do they crackle and pop? If so, you might be at increased risk for osteoarthritis of your knee joints.
0:39.9	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:50.2	One out of four people over 50 has knee pain from arthritis.
0:54.8	When your knees hurt, it's hard to climb stairs, go for a walk, or go dancing.
0:59.5	But managing the pain can be challenging.
1:02.5	New research suggests that steroid shots into the knee joint aren't helpful.
1:07.1	What else can you do?
1:09.0	What are the pros and cons of N-Said pain relievers or cortisone shots?
1:13.3	Is there anything else that can ease inflammation?
1:16.8	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, we welcome your questions and stories about how you manage pain.
1:25.2	First, this news.
1:30.5	In the People's pharmacy health headlines,
1:33.7	one popular treatment for knee pain might be doing more harm than good.
1:37.9	A two-year study published in the J.A.
1:41.0	Compared steroid and placebo injections into arthritic knee joints.
1:45.0	Patients who got injections of 40 milligrams of triumcinolone every three months
1:49.2	lost significantly more cartilage from their knee joints than people who got saline injections.
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