A pain management expert can also discuss other possibilities, including facet joint injections, other types of injections, ...

An epidural is an anesthetic delivered through a catheter (small tube) into a potential space outside the spinal cord called the epidural space. Using this catheter, we are able to infuse a solution ...

In the procedure, anesthesia is administered directly into the epidural space (outermost section) of the spinal cord as ...

In other cases, doctors employ epidural steroid injections to manage chronic pain conditions like spinal stenosis, herniated ...

Those with a history of previous lumbar spine surgery or those who had received epidural steroid injections within the last 6 months were excluded. Patients were randomized to injections with ...

However, attention is warranted when returning from the sitting to lateral position, since skin movements over the subcutaneous fat tissue may draw the catheter out of the epidural space.

Researchers evaluated the association between epidural steroid injection use and fracture incidence among older patients with radicular pain.