"This is especially true when they are performed on people who have pain only in their lower back or another type of pain that will not likely be helped by an epidural steroid injection.

While surgical treatment has been shown to be effective, many clinicians begin with more conservative measures including epidural corticosteroid injections. These epidural injections have ...

Not all trials found a benefit, but the largest trial found that intrathecal injections led to excellent or good pain relief ...

Epidural steroid injections are generally considered to be an important part of the standard conservative therapy for back pain. However, the role and efficacy of epidural steroid injections ...

Fracture risk was higher among patients with radicular pain who received ESIs compared with those who did not.

SpineThera is developing a sustained-release injectable drug for back pain with the aims of improving safety and reducing the need for repeated epidural injections of corticosteroids.