The injections have been an option for those with lower-back pain that also travels down the buttock or leg, often referred to as nerve-root pain or sciatica. Some experts believe that their ...

A team of clinicians and patients from Canada, the US, and Australia strongly recommended against epidural steroid injections and nerve blocks for people living with chronic back pain (lasting at ...

A spinal steroid injection—also known as an epidural injection—may only reduce neck and back pain for a few months, according to a recent review by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).

If the relative amount of activity is greater in small nerve fibers ... with sterile water injections, a cutting type of pain will be generated, thus creating a block to the slower signals ...