What Actually Happens After One Injects a Steroid into the Carpal Tunnel of a Patient?

Commentary The article by Yamanaka et al. is fascinating and fundamentally important for what clinicians do frequently. We inject steroids into our patients and tell them it might help them with their orthopaedic problems. At the same time, none of us is entirely sure why that might be true. How many times have you been asked by your patients, “What exactly will the steroid do for my problem, Doc?” Many of us likely reply with the generic answer...