CLINICAL RELEVANCE
- The evidence on single intra-articular corticosteroid injections for
the treatment of osteoarthritis and its effects on normal joints are
scarce, primarily unclear, and characterized by a high risk of bias,
especially considering only equine studies.
- A single injection of corticosteroids has limited symptom-modifying
osteoarthritic changes with unclear disease-modifying osteoarthritis
changes.
- When used in healthy joints, corticosteroids appear to have
detrimental effects on articular metabolism.