Epidural Steroid Injections

Overview

Journal Curr Pain Headache Rep

Date 2011 Nov 18

PMID 22090263

Citations 11

Authors

Indy M Wilkinson

Steven P Cohen

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Abstract

Epidural steroid injection (ESI) is the most commonly performed intervention in pain clinics across the United States. This article provides an evidence-based review of ESI, including data on efficacy, patient selection, comparison of types, and complications. The data strongly suggest that ESI can provide short-term relief for radicular symptoms but are less compelling for long-term effects or relief of back pain. Although it has been asserted that transforaminal ESIs are more efficacious than interlaminar injections, the evidence supporting this is limited.

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