Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

In fact, studies since then have suggested that for soft tissue pain, dry needling works just as well as steroid injections. Docs are still doing the steroids since they're something that should work. They just didn't for me.

Physical therapy worked, as did narcotics until I could function well enough without them to go back to work.

Now if they're talking about epidural (into the epidural space around the spinal cord) steroids, that's another thing, entirely. Those do work.