Get Virtual Care
For Businesses
About Us
A member asked:
Can cortisone medication relieve painful muscle spasms throughout your body?
2 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
No: cortisone has nothing to do with muscle spasms. cortisone is an antiinflammatory and can work being injected directly into a joint or taken orally
Answered 8/17/2014
3.8k views
Possibly: All corticosteroids have anti-inflammatory effects, affecting cyclooxygenase pathway, interfere with inflammatory cascade, reduce the release of inflammatory mediators, cytokines, TNFs involved in the inflammatory response. Muscle tone and spasm are mediated through intrafusal and extrafusal fibers with gamma motor neurons. Corticosteroid may reduce muscle spasm caused by inflammation.
Answered 8/17/2014
3.8k views
Related Questions
A member asked:
I have a pulled right pectoral muscle. Will a cortisone shot stop the pain for awhile?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
Can a cortisone injection in your thigh create muscle spasms?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
Had 1st ever cortisone shot in local muscle of lower back 2dy ago should I worry about immune sys like riding subway, restaurant & catching something.
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
I've had muscle spasms on right side of neck after withdrawing from klonopin. Would flexeril (cyclobenzaprine hcl) or cortisone shot help inflammation in sternoclemastoid?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
People also searched for:
Hip bursitis severe pain. Compromised mobility due to horribly painful muscle spasms after 5mins of putting leg on ground. No msa on health plan. Last cortisone injection 24 jan 2020?
Been almost a year from a grade 2 right ankle sprain. PT hasnt relieved pain. After any physical activity right calf muscle is tight. Does this affect from ankle healing properly? MRI shows scarring. Waiting for cortisone lidocaine shot?
I wokeup and I have sore spot on the right spot of my head. The skull (or muscle) underneath seems a bit elevated. I have had taken cortisone b4?
Can a cortisone injection in ur wrist joint create muscle spasms?
I was given a cortisone shot in upper arm in the muscle, being treated for ra. Why was the cortisone given that way. Using plaqueinil and prednisone 5?
Didn't find what you're looking for?
90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions or offer you advice, prescriptions, and more.
Ask your questionMore of what we treat
Download HealthTap
Video visit and message your doctor
