Lumbar Injections: Relieving Acute and Chronic Pain
Several common conditions that cause severe acute and/or chronic low back pain can be treated by pain injections such as an epidural steroid injection. Some of these conditions include disc herniation, degenerative disc disease, and spinal stenosis.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to epidural steroid injections: how they work, how they reduce inflammation, success rates, and patients who should not have the in...
This article overviews several conditions which often indicate a need for lumbar epidural steroid injectinos, including lumbar disc herniations and annular tears.
An epidural injection delivers steroids into the epidural space around spinal nerve roots to relieve low back pain, leg pain, or other pain caused by irritated spinal nerves. ...