epidural steroid injections
Managing Lumbar Disc Herniation: Current Treatment Limitations and Economic Burden
This monograph reviews the diagnosis of lumbar disc herniation; available treatment options, including a discussion ...
MARCH 17, 2025
Reasons Behind Malpractice Claims For Epidural Steroid Injections
SAN FRANCISCO—One of the first studies of its kind has shed much-needed light on the reasons that medical ...
JUNE 10, 2024
Study Assesses Value of Pretesting for Allergic Reactions Before Epidural Steroid Injections
Performing a skin-based allergy test prior to epidural steroid injections in patients identified as hypersensitive ...
JUNE 28, 2022
ON PAIN: Steroid Injections in the Time of COVID-19
In an abundance of caution, providers are now being told to space out neuraxial steroid injections when patients ...
AUGUST 23, 2021
Targeting Medial Branch Nerves With Temporary Percutaneous PNS Benefits Axial LBP Patients
People with chronic axial low back pain who have failed other treatment options may benefit from percutaneous ...
JULY 28, 2021
Review Explores Risks, Benefits of Gadolinium as Interventional Procedure Contrast Agent
A new evidence-based position statement warns of the risks of interventional pain procedures involving ...
JULY 13, 2021
Interventional Pain Physicians Ponder How to Treat Pain in Post-COVID World
As pain care providers strive to reorient their practices to tackle the ongoing global pandemic’s unique ...
MARCH 11, 2021
Epidural Steroid Injections Before Spine Surgery Increase Odds of Chronic Opioid Use
Patients with back pain who received one or more epidural steroid injections before spine surgery were much more ...
JANUARY 25, 2021
Staats ON PAIN: Epidural Steroid Injections
This episode of the ON PAIN series with Peter S. Staats, MD, covers the optimal patient conditions for using ...
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
Neurologic Complications More Likely With Epidural Particulate Steroid Injections
Orlando, Fla.—Epidural steroid injections resulted in nearly twice the incidence of serious neurologic ...
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Epidural Steroid Injections May Reduce Spending for Patients With Low Back Pain
ESIs were associated with total health care spending decreases of 16.4%, 7.56% and 4.67% for radiculitis, sciatica ...
MAY 23, 2016
Long-Term Data Favorable on Percutaneous Lumbar Decompression for Spinal Stenosis
Six-month data from a randomized controlled study for the Medicare Coverage with Evidence Development program ...
APRIL 25, 2016
