Background: Total joint replacement (TJR) patients can suffer from tendinitis, bursitis or other inflammatory conditions that are generally treated by cortisone (corticosteroid) injections. Such injections rarely caus...
The Japanese Orthopedic Association proposed a concept called locomotive syndrome (LS) to identify middle-aged and older adults at high risk of requiring health care services because of problems with locomotion-associ...
The purpose of this note is to report the results of a study on the effect of cortisone on glycogen deposition and on intermediary metabolites of carbohydrate in normal and adrenalectomized rats. The glucose tolerance...