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 ...

Epidural steroid injections are a minimally invasive option for people experiencing spinal stenosis, herniated discs, and so much more. Xavier met with Dr. Jay Jagannathan of Jagannathan Neurosurgery ...

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 an MRI of the lower back and referred me to an orthopedic ...

A TFESI is an injection that can help relieve chronic and severe back pain caused by certain conditions when other treatments do not work. The shot is usually painless, and side effects are typically ...

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, ...

Some doctors suggest that people should not receive more than two or four epidural steroid injections (ESIs) per year. However, others agree that people can safely receive up to six injections ...

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has developed a new systematic review to summarize for neurologists and other clinicians the evidence for epidural steroid injections and whether they reduce ...

Potentially tainted steroid blamed for outbreak The number of Medicare patients receiving such injections grew Critics say the growth in such injections is based more on money NASHVILLE -- As ...

MILWAUKEE — Whatever deficiencies, dilemmas or DL moves the Dodgers had to deal with four out of every five days, they could count on everything being right in their world on that fifth day. They ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Back pain: lots of folks have it and can be desperate for relief. But for some people, a common treatment made things a lot worse, and now they're speaking out. A healthy ...

An epidural headache is a headache that can occur after an epidural injection. It’s also known as a post-dural puncture headache (PDPH) or a spinal headache. While you may think of childbirth when you ...