Epidural glucocorticoid injection is an intervention commonly used for managing lumbosacral radicular pain. The goal of the injection is to administer glucocorticoids to the epidural space to ...

An American Academy of Neurology assessment finds little high-quality evidence, supporting only short-term pain relief of radicular lumbosacral pain. Back pain is one of the most common disabling ...

More than 200,000 Medicare patients with back pain underwent $2 billion worth of unnecessary surgeries, including spinal fusion and/or laminectomy or vertebroplasty, over a recent 3-year period, ...

We would tend to use these terms: The difficult thing is that all of these – referred pain, radicular pain and radiculopathy – can occur at the same time or separately. It is one of the reasons the ...

Or have you had a sudden numbness or pins-and-needles sensation in your legs or feet that you can’t explain?These are not ...

New Hampshire and Arkansas were found to have the highest rates of unnecessary spinal fusions and/or laminectomies and vertebroplasties, respectively, according ...