Epidural anesthetic or steroid injections, nerve blocks, and related interventions are commonly used to treat chronic back pain. This review found no solid evidence showing that these interventions ...

Spine injections should not be given to adults with chronic back pain because they provide little or no pain relief compared with sham injections, say a panel of international experts in The BMJ.

Phillies top prospect Aidan Miller’s 2026 season may be riding on a spinal procedure for lower back pain set for Friday. The outpatient procedure, called radiofrequency ablation of the facet joints, ...

A large study on the effectiveness of injections for spinal stenosis was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in July of this year. It was designed by top doctors in the field of pain ...

Little is known about the therapeutic outcomes of transforaminal epidural steroid injection (TFESI) in patients with lumbosacral radicular pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). Using lumbar spine ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive neuromuscular disorder characterized by progressive motor function loss and skeletal muscular atrophy. Nusinersen, an antisense oligonucleotide, is the ...

A research team led by Kim Young-joon and Lee Jun-woo of the Department of Radiology at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital said that diabetics who complain of leg pain can reduce pain through ...

Injections are widely used in the U.S. for chronic back and sciatic pain, yet a careful review of the research supporting this use does not support this practice. This blog presents the scientific ...