Charlie Mulgrew has revealed that he took a cortisone injection to cure a troublesome knee injury.
The 28-year-old is hopeful of being available for Saturday’s match at Ross County after a month out of action.
Cortisone injections were common in the sixties freezing out the pain but caused long term damage in a number of cases most famously for former Morton striker Allan McGraw.
Modern advise suggests that a player should have a maximum of two cortisone injections during their career with Mulgrew thinking long and hard before taking a cortisone and steroid injection to cure his knee problem.
“I’ve never had one so didn’t know what they were about,” he admitted. “I had to look into them, I didn’t want to get something and then regret it but I’d definitely recommend whatever I got – it was brilliant. I’ve never felt it since.
“I was bit wary because I hadn’t had one before, and I didn’t want to get it if there was an underlying problem there, but it was a top specialist that recommended it. It has put an end to a frustrating few weeks, to say the least.
“I rested the injury for the first few weeks and then when I got the injection I was outside running, next to the training, but I couldn’t get involved in it. It was frustrating but I’m happy to be back now.
“I was carrying the injury in the background for five weeks and thought I better get it sorted. Thankfully, the injection has worked perfectly. It’s just good to get back. A lot of the time you pick up knocks and they go away but I knew this time it was going on too long and I was eventually going to have to deal with it.”
Mulgrew should be joined in the squad at Ross County by Mikael Lustig who is in the Sweden squad to face Liechtenstein today.
