"This is especially true when they are performed on people who have pain only in their lower back or another type of pain that will not likely be helped by an epidural steroid injection.

There appears to be limited evidence supporting the use of epidural steroid injections for certain types of chronic lower back pain, new guidance from the American Academy of Neurology finds.

While surgical treatment has been shown to be effective, many clinicians begin with more conservative measures including epidural corticosteroid injections. These epidural injections have ...

suggests that these injections may offer only limited benefits for certain types of chronic lower back pain. A recent review published in Neurology examined whether epidural steroid injections are ...