November 07, 2025 – PRESSADVANTAGE – North American Spine and Pain has announced the introduction of a new clinical approach ...

Perry Clark says that a steroid injected near his spine to relieve persistent back pain instead left him “way, way worse.” Twelve years later, he still suffers from continuous stinging in his legs and ...

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 damage. The drug injections ...

If you're headed for back surgery, there may be a way to get a leg-up on a faster, less painful recovery. Tufts Medical Center's Spine Center has become one of the few places regionally to administer ...

In the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis, epidural injection of glucocorticoids plus lidocaine offered minimal or no short-term benefit compared with epidural injection of lidocaine alone, a new ...

Contrary to a study which concluded that epidural steroid injections were not helpful in the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis, a letter in the journal Pain Medicine states that epidural steroid ...

A commonly-used medical procedure spinal injection of a mixture of lidocaine and anti-inflammatory steroid has been shown to be no more effective in relieving certain symptoms of back problems than ...

MRI The majority of interventional spine physicians reported using magnetic resonance imaging ahead of lumbar epidural steroid injections to correlate with the physical examination. The majority of ...

(Reuters Health) - Spinal epidural injections of steroids may relieve low back pain from a ruptured disc, but only briefly, a new study shows. And the injections offer no significant relief for pain ...

In the results of a recently published study, researchers reported findings that demonstrated a link between the receipt of spinal epidural steroid injections and an increased risk of infection. The ...

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, ...