Sentences with phrase «for painful injections»

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This «smart» patch, covered in nearly 100 needles the size of human eyelashes, could one day serve as a blood glucose monitor and at the same time replace insulin injections for diabetics — a painful ritual that some patients have to go through several times a day.

«Noninvasive procedure is superior to steroid injection for painful knee osteoarthritis.»

«This study demonstrates that CRFA is an effective long - term therapeutic option for managing pain, and improving physical function and quality of life, for patients suffering from painful knee osteoarthritis when compared with intra-articular steroid injection,» according to the clinical trial report by Leonardo Kapural, MD, PhD, of the Center for Clinical Research, Winston - Salem, N.C., and colleagues.

Thanks to a breakthrough led by researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, treatment for hemophilia can now be administered via a biodegradable system, a capsule, giving people affected by the hereditary bleeding disorder hope for a less expensive, less painful treatment option than conventional injections or infusions.

Every time it would flare up, I'd pop into her office for a few painful steroid injections and some medicated cream.

You don't have to opt for expensive pills, painful injections or illegal supplements.

For example, it is all too easy to get a steroid injection into a painful shoulder, when a more natural treatment such an osteopathic procedure or massage would have been just as effective without the long - term risk of weakening or damaging the joint further.

The veterinarian did warn Jill that the injection of sedative might sting her pets, but she was completely unprepared for the degree of her pets» reactions, which seemed aberrant and needlessly painful.

The injections, given deep in the lower back, are painful and leave the dog sore for quite some time.

Treating a dog for heartworms is a long, painful and costly process that involves a series of injections and often a period of isolation from the family.

This is a painful injection with a painful substance, and it is common for the patient to be quite sore at home afterwards.

Additionally, the treatment process - a series of injections with an arsenic - based drug called Immiticide - is protracted, often painful and sometimes risky for the animal.

It is no more painful than a typical injection, although the needle is slightly larger than those used for injection.

Your pet might also be quite sore and stiff for a few days due to the painful injection.