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JUNE 29, 2021

Steroid Injection Therapy Does Not Compromise COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy, New Guideline Suggests

By Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW

Originally published by our sister publication, Pain Medicine News

The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN) issued a new set of recommendations to guide clinicians in the safe and appropriate use of steroid injections for pain management in patients who are receiving the COVID-19 vaccine (J Pain Res 2021;14:623-629).

“The central question that we wanted to deduce and answer is whether a local steroid injection might potentially reduce the efficacy