What exactly was in that needle?
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minstrel1184 — 16 years ago(January 30, 2010 09:59 PM)
I get the whole assumption that it's a steroid but would steroids fix a knee that something "popped" out of place? I didn't think they worked like that. It's an illegal, unethical way of getting bigger but it's not a miracle cure that would have enabled that player to get up and walk and play the rest of the game, is it?
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rammstein2212 — 16 years ago(February 03, 2010 10:46 PM)
I Know there is a legal non steroid teams in nfl give players if they are playing injured that makes them feel little to no pain of the injury they are playing through im just not sure what it is called.
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sandman81 — 15 years ago(June 21, 2010 08:26 PM)
There are stories from the past few seasons about NFL players getting cortisone shots at halftime, then returning to the game as if nothing happened. It might take a little time for it to kick in, but it could someone back in the game.
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agunnut — 9 years ago(April 24, 2016 08:50 AM)
It was most likely lidocaine with epinephrine. The lido would numb the pain and the epi would decrease blood flow so that the numbing effect would last longer. Steroids would not be effective "sideline drugs" because they have a very slow onset but a long duration of action. Sodium channel blocking anesthetics, on the other hand, work very quickly and have a short duration, hence the need for the epinephrine slow down the washout time.
