Epidural Steroid Injections

Epidural steroid injections giving benefits for many of those patients who suffered from low back pain. There was > 50% of patients who have pain relief by taking of lumbar epidural steroid injections. Patient's mental health and quality of life is also improved by use of injections and also minimize the need of painkiller, and gradually resulted in reduction insurgery.Recent research reports that lumbar epidural steroid injections are beneficial for patients who have suffered from sciatica due to lumbar disc herniation and there were >80% of patients who receive injections having relief in pain.The majority also increased their duration of walking and tolerance for standing.
Numerous open studies of epidural corticosteroid injections for sciatica
due to disk herniation found a beneficial effect in about 65% of cases. In 13 studies, five found that epidural corticosteroid injections were effective.