When a quick painkiller fix leads to long-term woes

Ever had an annoying pain preventing you from working out at your full potential for weeks or months on end? I guess the answer is yes for most athletes. Injury in sport is as inevitable as tax and death. And when it comes to working out at the gym, opportunities abund to contract one of these pesky injuries that do not sideline you altogether but hamstring you enough that your 1-max rep is durably affected.

THE MAGICAL CORTISONE FIX
The vast majority of these injuries are muscular or affect tendons. In my own experience what has long been called "tendinitis" is the most frustrating type of injury as it often resists all conventional treatments such as the commonsensical "Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation" routine. To defeat such a stubborn enemy, one may be tempted to resort to an "industrial strength" treatment, which more often than not means using cortisone in one of its many forms.