Epidural steroid injections
Modern medicine isn’t perfect, and sometimes doctors prescribe medical interventions out of habit even though new evidence shows they’re not effective, too dangerous, or don’t always work. One of these is epidural steroid injections for back pain. (Could you have one of these secret reasons for your back pain?) Although these shots may work short-term, they have risky potential complications like neurological problems or paralysis. “Generally, epidural steroid injection isn’t very useful for treatment of chronic back or neck pain,” says Steven Severyn, MD, an anesthesiologist at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. In addition, research has shown the injections haven’t reduced the number of back surgeries. If the pain is caused by nerve issues (sciatica) instead of arthritis, “it will often relieve nerve inflammation causing the limb pain and allow time for naturally occurring improvement to take place,” Dr. Severyn says. However, the injections’ usefulness is still only short-term. Other treatments for back pain, such as physical therapy, can be a better plan for long-term improvement.
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