Steroid injections are helpful in rotator cuff tendinopathy

When examined individually, however, these papers concluded that triamcinolone significantly improved pain at four weeks compared with placebo and showed non-significant benefits compared with naproxen or diclofenac. 2 3 Furthermore, in our experience, steroid injections provide pain relief sufficient to obviate surgical treatment in a proportion of patients with tendinopathy without rotator cuff tears.