No fracture for Oeltjen, Butler gets a cortisone shot
Oeltjen should be good to go in a day or two after being hit by a pitch yesterday.
Butler, meanwhile, received a cortisone shot to relieve some inflammation in his elbow and will be shut down for at least five more days.
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by Bettman's Nightmare on Mar 6, 2010 8:26 PM CST reply actions
Cortisone shots...
… are both horrific and wonderful. I had elbow tendinitis for about six months last year. I finally went to the doctor when I couldn’t lift my Nikon with the 500mm lens on it with my right arm. Doc suggested a cortisone shot and told me I’d hate him for it for a couple of days but after that it would get a lot better.
And that just about nailed it. Pre-shot, my elbow hurt when I tried to pick up something heavy with my right hand. Sometimes it hurt bad enough to be wince-inducing, but mostly it was just annoying.
The shot itself was unpleasant. Doc probed the elbow for a bit with his fingers asking me to tell him when it hurt. When he hit the sore spot he could tell by the look on my face. Then he stuck the needle in and held it there for about 30 seconds, occasionally changing the angle of entry. I managed not to start weeping, though it was closer than I’d like to admit. When it was done, he told me it would get worse before it got better.
I spent the next two days with my arm pinned to my side and a tylenol bottle in my pocket. It hurt like a bastard, and I spent a good portion of my time calling my doctor bad names.
By day 3 it hurt a lot less and I started the therapy exercises the doctor gave me. By day 4 it felt great. A week out I had generally forgotten I had a bad elbow in the first place. Those 2 days were hell, but it was worth it in the end. I was always puzzled why athletes seemed reluctant to get cortisone shots at times, and why some of them said they joint hurt worse after than it did before. I don’t wonder about that anymore…
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Mar 6, 2010 8:42 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Again, I'm not a doctor
But I worry about treating the symptom instead of the problem.
Until the last couple of weeks, Butler had been resting for most of two months. He started throwing again and now his elbow is inflamed. Sure, they can treat the inflammation, but will that keep it from flaring up again?
Presumably, when you had your bout with tendinitis, you weren’t doing a job that involved heavy, strenuous use of your elbow. Butler is. So if he’s doing something that caused his elbow to inflame, there’s a pretty good chance it’ll happen again when he starts throwing again.
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Neither am I.
But I suppose it depends on what’s causing the inflammation. For the sedentary, getting the pain out allows you to do the exercises needed to strengthen the joint and fix the injury. For Butler, I suspect the shot seemed preferable to shutting it down for a week or two. If they think they’ve got a handle on what caused the inflammation (like maybe he tried to do too much too soon this spring) and they think they can avoid that again once they get the pain out, that makes sense to me. If they don’t have a handle on what caused it, then your concerns are justified.
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Mar 6, 2010 9:53 PM CST up reply actions
I should say preferable to "shutting it down for a week or two more" than he may have to with the shot...
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Mar 6, 2010 9:57 PM CST up reply actions
I am also not a doctor
I was once told that a person should only recieve something like 3 cortisone shots in a joint over the course of their lifetime.
by BrewCrewBrian on Mar 8, 2010 7:29 AM CST up reply actions
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