A pain management expert can also discuss other possibilities, including facet joint injections, other types of injections, ...

Those with a history of previous lumbar spine surgery or those who had received epidural steroid injections within the ... in the corticosteroid group had low morning serum cortisol levels ...

Abstract: Degenerative disc disease of the spine causing lower back ... utilization of epidural injections for managing chronic back pain was shown to increase 121% over a 7 year period as reported by ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

I read your recent column on shingles. I am 66 years old and in fairly good health. I had both Shingrix shots about five years ago. I take hydroxyurea for polycythemia vera (PV). Around Aug. 1, I ...