Reported inciting events in lumbosacral radiculopathy patients were not linked to treatment outcomes after epidural injections, according to new research.
Also, “their occurrence is not always consistent with the purported mechanism of injury,” according to the researchers, who sought to determine whether etiologies reported by 1,242 lumbosacral patients being treated at a chronic pain clinic from January 2007 to December 2015 had any relationship with the efficacy of epidural