In the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis, epidural injection of glucocorticoids plus lidocaine offered minimal or no short-term benefit compared with epidural injection of lidocaine alone, a new ...

Contrary to a study which concluded that epidural steroid injections were not helpful in the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis, a letter in the journal Pain Medicine states that epidural steroid ...

There appears to be limited evidence supporting the use of epidural steroid injections for certain types of chronic lower back pain, new guidance from the American Academy of Neurology finds. Epidural ...

A modified interlaminar lumbar epidural steroid injection approach, known as the parasagittal approach, is more effective at reducing unilateral lumbosacral radicular back pain and is safer than the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A subgroup analysis of the SPORT study found that patients with spinal stenosis who received epidural steroid ...

A guideline developed by the American Academy of Neurology finds epidural steroid injections play a limited role in providing short-term pain relief for lower back pain that radiates down a leg, and ...

Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injections Up Risk of Spinal Fx In patients with radiculopathy or neurogenic claudication due to compression of spinal nerves, lumbar epidural steroid injections increase the ...

A single spinal injection was given to 154 patients in the ESI group of an observational study from the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT). They were compared with 453 patients who did not ...

With an epidural steroid injection, a steroid or corticosteroid medication is injected into a part of the spine called the epidural space. The goal is to help reduce certain kinds of back pain. For ...

Q: My back and sciatic pain is getting worse. I've been told that I can get an epidural and it will help with the pain. Will it? A: A recent review found that this procedure has little or no lasting ...

When back pain won’t go away, all the treatments that could help should be evaluated, from exercise and physical therapy to medication. Part of that evaluation, may include injections to ease back ...

The following column first appeared in the AAPC News.Medicare Part B physician payments for transforaminal epidural injection services increased from $57 million in 2003 to $141 million in 2007, ...