Tennis elbow? Steroid shots not best long-term fix

UPDATED 17:24 PM EST, February 5, 2013

CHICAGO (AP) — Commonly used steroid shots may worsen tennis elbow in the long run and increase chances that the painful condition will reappear, a small study found.

By contrast, patients who got dummy injections alone or with physical therapy were more likely to completely recover after a year and much less likely to have a recurrence than those given steroids.

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