March 6, 2012 (Vienna, Austria) — The use of ultrasound to guide transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TF-ESIs) for the treatment of cervical radiculopathy is an effective radiation-free ...

Background A 79-year-old woman with a history of chronic back pain and urinary urgency presented to a spine center for treatment and evaluation for axial low back pain. The patient described the back ...

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 ...

For most people suffering from back pain, surgery is scheduled only after all other options have been exhausted. One non-surgical approach to pain relief is epidural steroid injections. They are only ...

With a recent diagnosis of sciatica, my GP referred me on to a specialist. She has recommendedan epidural steroid injection into my back. Can you explain what this is? Sciatic pain is usually caused ...

Epidural steroid injections can deliver an anti-inflammatory steroid into the epidural space around the spinal cord. It is unclear why this might cause pain before relief, but there are many theories, ...

MRI The majority of interventional spine physicians reported using magnetic resonance imaging ahead of lumbar epidural steroid injections to correlate with the physical examination. The majority of ...