Chronic low back pain significantly affects quality of life for millions of people worldwide. Back pain makes it difficult to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study suggests that injections of steroids or arthritis drugs in the spine may not provide much extra relief for people with chronic back and leg pain due to nerve ...

A large study on the effectiveness of injections for spinal stenosis was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in July of this year. It was designed by top doctors in the field of pain ...

There appears to be limited evidence supporting the use of epidural steroid injections for certain types of chronic lower back pain, new guidance from the American Academy of Neurology finds. Epidural ...

Epidural anesthetic or steroid injections, nerve blocks, and related interventions are commonly used to treat chronic back pain. This review found no solid evidence showing that these interventions ...

A new study from the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement reveals that spinal injections help more than three out of every four patients experience back pain relief but only slightly more than half ...

Anesthesiologists must always wear face masks when material is injected into the epidural or spinal space, regardless of location, according to a post in Anesthesiology by J. Lance Lichtor, MD, ...

Injections are widely used in the U.S. for chronic back and sciatic pain, yet a careful review of the research supporting this use does not support this practice. This blog presents the scientific ...