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 ...

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, ...

Kenneth Wayne Price was a campus safety supervisor at Tamalpais High School in October 2023 when he was badly injured trying ...

A herniated disc is bad enough, but when you factor in radiating pain, it’s hellish. Ferring Pharmaceuticals (Parsippany, New Jersey) and its clinical development partner, Seikagaku Corporation (Tokyo ...

The high-quality studies showed that thermal RFA of the DRG is not effective in the treatment of chronic lumbar radicular pain. The trial results provided inconclusive evidence of the efficacy of ...

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

While the cause of the pain can originate in the legs, it is more often associated with the lumbar spine. This includes the five vertebrae (bones that form the spinal column) situated between the ...

Spinal fusion and laminectomy procedures were deemed overused for patients with low back pain, excluding those with radicular symptoms, trauma, herniated disc, discitis, spondylosis, myelopathy, ...

Housed in and around the spinal column are the discs, nerves, and connecting musculature, which may contribute to radicular ...

radicular pain or scoliosis. Vertebroplasty "overuse" was defined in patients who had fractures caused by osteoporosis, with some exclusions. 4. States with the highest overuse of spinal fusions ...

There is limited evidence for the use of MSCs for spinal cord injury (Consensus Point 28) and radicular pain (Consensus Point 31); while some studies suggest that these approaches can achieve pain ...