A study in Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery analyzed the positive predictive value of diagnostic 1 percent lidocaine containing transforaminal epidural steroid injections after outpatient ...

Dr. Dawley and colleagues sought to affirm the possibility that intra-arterial injection of commonly used corticosteroids could lead to central nervous system injury during a transforaminal epidural ...

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 ...

There many safe minimally invasive medical approaches for various options for chronic low back and leg pain treatment. Naturopathic approaches such as massage and acupuncture are excellent ...

2022 DEC 02 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily-- Current study results on Managed Care have been published. According to news originating from New Haven, ...

Epidural steroid injections (ESIs) should be contraindicated under certain circumstances in the management of back pain, the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug ...

The following column first appeared in the AAPC News.Medicare Part B physician payments for transforaminal epidural injection services increased from $57 million in 2003 to $141 million in 2007, ...

Minimal differences in pain relief and function at 1 and 6 months were seen in a comparison of two commonly delivered epidural injection modalities, according to research presented at the 30th Annual ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. – Researchers found that a minimally invasive procedure combined with epidural steroid injection treatment led to superior pain reduction and disability improvement over one year in ...

(HealthDay News) — Blunt-tip and pencil-point needles have comparable risks of inadvertent vascular injection during lumbosacral transforaminal injections, according to a study published online ...