People with lower-back pain have several options for potential relief, including spinal manipulation, massage, medication, surgery, and simply letting time pass. But steroid injections are an ...

The doctor didn’t recommend surgery, which I would be reluctant to do anyway. Subsequently, he referred me to a pain management doctor, where I understand that treatment is likely to be an epidural ...

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In this review we discuss different types of injectable steroids that are mainly used for injection into the epidural space (for the treatment of radicular back and neck pain), and as intra-articular ...

Five years ago, the patient reported a severe low back pain (LBP) with bilateral radiculopathy in the lower limbs without ... A diagnostic and therapeutic technique was used with a single-shot lumbar ...

The epidural procedure begins with a careful injection of a combination of anaesthetic ... Epidurals cause permanent back pain: Research indicates that persistent back pain after childbirth ...

Methods Over 12 consecutive months, 138 patients with a severe degenerative lumbar spine underwent epidural (interlaminar) injection as therapy for low back pain and neuralgia. Patients had already ...

Twenty-six anaesthesiologists, physiatrists and radiologists experienced in epidural injections from 16 US sites performed the procedures. The primary outcomes assessed at 6 weeks were an average pain ...

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There are a lot of reasons this pain-management procedure is used by two-thirds of laboring moms. Here’s how an epidural works and how to decide if it’s right for you.