“…The term "glucopuncture" is designed to bring more attention to this technique among the general public as well as among family physicians and sports doctors who still adhere to steroid injections from the 1970s. In the 21st century, new publications about glucopuncture started to appear for treatment of sports injuries [34], tennis elbow [35], rotator cuff related shoulder pain [36], tension headache [37], Achilles tendinopathy [38], carpal tunnel syndrome [39,40,41,42], failed back surgery syndrome [43,44,45], nerve hydrodissection [46,47], hamstring injury [48], postherpetic neuralgia [49,50], pronator teres syndrome [51], joint pain [52] and lumbar facet joint syndrome [53]. Recently it has been confirmed that D5W can be injected into fascia to enhance biotensegrity [54].…”