ORLANDO, Fla. — Evidence of the effectiveness and safety of CT-guided, lumbar transforaminal injection of steroids in the treatment of radicular pain is scant, according to a presenter here. Nikolai ...

Transforaminal injection of steroids was determined to be a viable alternative to surgery for lumbar radicular pain due to disc herniation, a new study shows. 54 percent of patients achieved pain ...

A single spinal injection was given to 154 patients in the ESI group of an observational study from the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT). They were compared with 453 patients who did not ...

Lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TF-ESIs) are a common type of treatment for radicular pain caused by a disc herniation. Predictors of favorable response (> 50% pain reduction beyond ...

A modified interlaminar lumbar epidural steroid injection approach, known as the parasagittal approach, is more effective at reducing unilateral lumbosacral radicular back pain and is safer than the ...

MRI The majority of interventional spine physicians reported using magnetic resonance imaging ahead of lumbar epidural steroid injections to correlate with the physical examination. The majority of ...

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A recent study from Australian researchers determined that transforaminal injection of steroids was a viable alternative to surgery for lumbar radicular pain due to disc herniation. Full details of ...