A pain management expert can also discuss other possibilities, including facet joint injections, other types of injections, ...

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 progressive pain and weakness of the legs that ... many clinicians begin with more conservative measures including epidural corticosteroid injections. These epidural injections have increased ...

Epidural steroid injections are generally considered to be an important part of the standard conservative therapy for back pain. However, the role and efficacy of epidural steroid injections ...

“Epidural steroid injections are very common after traumatic injuries such as car accidents or slips and falls,” says Devers.

Subsequently, he referred me to a pain management doctor, where I understand that treatment is likely to be an epidural injection into the lower back near the spine. I am concerned about the risks ...

My cousin is a retired anesthesiologist. He recommended an epidural steroid injection (ESI) that would help me immediately. I ...

Pain relief is commonly used during childbirth ... This procedure is a combination of the classic epidural and spinal ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 75-year-old male and have had pain in my buttocks down to my outside thigh muscles. My primary care doctor ordered ...

Researchers evaluated the association between epidural steroid injection use and fracture incidence among older patients with radicular pain.

SpineThera is developing a sustained-release injectable drug for back pain with the aims of improving safety and reducing the need for repeated epidural injections of corticosteroids.