Parasagittal Lumbar Steroid Injection Safest, Most Effective
February 7, 2012 (Miami Beach, Florida) — A modified interlaminar lumbar epidural steroid injection, referred to as the parasagittal approach, can achieve better pain relief than a midline ...
No Difference by Injection Approach for Low Back Pain - Medscape
Mar 10, 2014 · Despite widespread belief of improved pain relief with transforaminal injections, randomized trials show no significant differences for relief of radiating low back pain or for …
Is Procedural Pain Prognostic in Lumbar Epidural Injection?
February 27, 2012 (Palm Springs, California) — Concordant pain provoked during lumbar epidural steroid injection (LESI) for radicular pain seems to be predictive of improved pain relief at 6 ...
Epidural Steroids Cause Blood Glucose Spike in Patients With DM
Apr 21, 2011 · Epidural steroid injections cause a significant but transient rise in blood glucose levels of patients with diabetes without affecting hemoglobin A1c levels; patients should be …
FDA Panel Warns Against Certain Back Pain Injections - Medscape
Nov 28, 2014 · In interlaminar injections, clinicians insert the needle between (midline) or adjacent and parallel to (paramedian) the spinous processes of two vertebrae and traversing the …