Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Clemens Lame Excuse

More people need to be citing articles like this one by ESPN's Patrick Hruby.   He asks some very fundamental questions about Lidocaine and B-12 injections and their effectiveness. 

Can you get pain relief in your joints by injecting lidocaine into your, well, buttocks?

Dr. Dombrowski: No. Never. Unless Clemens was limited by hip pain or whatever in his buttocks, then no, that's not what you do. You use big deep muscles for injecting steroids. But you would never treat shoulder or elbow pain in that way. If what he was injected with was truly lidocaine, his butt cheek would be numb. And that's it.

Dr. Dretchen: Just a blind injection into the gluteus area, that would be a strange usage of the drug. When you go to the dentist, would you get an injection into your arm? Of course not.


Me thinks it wasn't 100% Lidocaine that went into Roger's heiney.  Me thinks it was (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) "lidocaine" (wink, nudge) that went in.  Get my drift?

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