Steroid injections can help relieve back pain and reduce a person’s need for surgery. They are typically a safe and effective treatment but do not provide a full cure for the cause of back pain. Many ...

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 ...

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 ...

Epidural steroid injections can deliver an anti-inflammatory steroid into the epidural space around the spinal cord. It is unclear why this might cause pain before relief, but there are many theories, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Open label placebo yielded approximately 1 month of improvement in chronic ...

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 ...

An injection that relieves low back pain by helping damaged spinal discs regenerate appears to have sustained benefits, new clinical trial data show. Most patients who received an injection of VIA ...

Steroid injections for back pain are no more effective than a placebo, according to a study reported in the New York Times. Researchers in the study, which appeared in the latest issue of Annals of ...