Sunday, July 6, 2014

Steroid injections for chronic back pain offer little relief


Epidural Steroid Injections (ESI) have been the standard of non-surgical care for various forms of low back pain and sciatica since 1952. The pain conditions affecting the back, hip and outer side of the leg is known as sciatica. This health ailment is ...


Professor Nadine Foster, of the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre at Keele University, Staffordshire, UK, has been awarded an National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment grant of £1.18 million for a randomised trial that ...


Steroid shots may help in treating chronic back pain. However, a recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that for many patients, the shots were not so effective for reducing pain. Like Us on Facebook Lead study author Janna ...



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