Injections of corticosteroids should be performed for an inflammatory bursitis or synovitis when systemic therapy is contraindicated and as an adjunct to physical therapy or systemic therapy. Many inflammatory conditions, including articular and nonarticular processes, are improved with local corticosteroid injection therapy.1,7,8 The articular processes that are helped by injection therapy include gout, pseudogout, spondyloarthropathies, rheumatoid arthritis, neuritis, osteoarthritis, and crystalloid arthropathies. The nonarticular processes that are helped by injection therapy include bursitis, periarthritis, adhesive capsulitis, tenosynovitis, epicondylitis, trigger points, ganglion cysts, entrapment syndromes, tendonitis, plantar fasciitis, and neuritis.