Epidural injections
Fluoroscopic caudal epidural injections in managing chronic axial low back pain without disc herniation, radiculitis, or facet joint pain
... to a single center, and is an active controlled trial, it is also double-blind and designed to determine whether fluoroscopi- cally directed epidural injections with or without steroids with the usual ...
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Fluoroscopic cervical epidural injections in chronic axial or disc-related neck pain without disc herniation, facet joint pain, or radiculitis
... cervical epidural injections with or without steroids for managing chronic neck and upper extremity pain second- ary to discogenic pain without disc herniation, radiculitis, or facet joint ...
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Fluoroscopic lumbar interlaminar epidural injections in managing chronic lumbar axial or discogenic pain
... interlaminar epidural injections of local anesthetic with or without steroids for managing chronic low back pain of discogenic ...interlaminar epidural injections of local anesthetic with or ...
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Epidurography and Therapeutic Epidural Injections: Technical Considerations and Experience with 5334 Cases
... an epidural needle is advanced to the dorsal midline epidural space (Fig ...cervical epidural space to avoid the risk of respiratory suppres- sion resulting from high cervical ...cervical ...
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Influence of needle-insertion depth on epidural spread and clinical outcomes in caudal epidural injections: a randomized clinical trial
... We enrolled and randomized 130 patients. Three patients were excluded from the study population for the final analysis. One patient in the conventional method group was converted to the alternative method group because ...
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Incidence of Inadvertent Intravascular Injection during CT Fluoroscopy–Guided Epidural Steroid Injections
... as epidural contrast in our study, we recognize that the cross-sectional nature of CT may impose some limitations as ...lar injections into vessels that run in the craniocaudal direction (and therefore ...
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Study Protocol Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injections for Spinal Stenosis (LESS): a double blind randomized controlled trial of epidural steroid injections for lumbar spinal stenosis among older adults
... controversial. Epidural steroid injections are used with increasing frequency as a less invasive, potentially safer, and more cost- effective treatment than ...of epidural steroid injections ...
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Original Article Epidural dexamethasone injections in diabetic patients under perioperative glycemic control
... foraminal epidural injections for corresponding spinal stenosis ...caudal epidural injections through the sacral hiatus using the epidural catheter (Abel epidur- al catheter system, GS ...
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Local anesthetic injections with or without steroid for chronic non-cancer pain: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
... saline injections [12, ...spinal injections targeted at epidural, facet joint/nerve, and disc pain ...on epidural injections for radiculopathy and spinal stenosis, without any ...
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Transforaminal epidural injection versus continued conservative care in acute sciatica (TEIAS trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... Transforaminal epidural injections (TEI) therapy might be the answer as it is postulated to have an anal- gesic and anti-inflammatory effect which can last several days to ...
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Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Severity by CT or MRI Does Not Predict Response to Epidural Corticosteroid versus Lidocaine Injections
... nevertheless, epidural injections were performed within 1 lumbar spinal level of the worst stenosis in ⬎ 90% of patients, and transforaminal injections were targeted to the most symptomatic ...
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Safety and Efficacy of CT Guided Transforaminal Cervical Epidural Steroid Injections Using a Posterior Approach
... transforaminal epidural injections between 2006 and ...receiving epidural injections completed a pre- procedure study form, which included patient demographics, RMDI, and a VNPS: 0, no pain; ⫺ ...
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Spinal cord stimulation for treatment of failed back surgery syndrome two case reports
... Conservative management included patient education, epidural steroid injections, physiotherapy and a trial of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.. She obtained about 20 - 30% pa[r] ...
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CT Fluoroscopic Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections: Extraforaminal Needle Tip Position Decreases Risk of Intravascular Injection
... Intravascular injections were characterized as likely venous, likely arterial, or indeterminate, as shown in Fig 6. In likely venous, contrast accumulates away from the needle tip within the foram- inal venous ...
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Lateral Decubitus Positioning for Cervical Nerve Root Block Using CT Image Guidance Minimizes Effective Radiation Dose and Procedural Time
... This institutional review board–approved and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act–compliant study is a retro- spective case review of a cohort treated with CT-guided cervical steroid injections. The ...
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Spinal epidural lipomatosis presenting to a U.S. Veterans Affairs pain and rehabilitation department: a report of two cases
... A 63-year-old Caucasian male veteran was referred to the chiropractic clinic with a 2-year history of insidious, wors- ening low back and bilateral leg pain. The patient com- plained of pain and cramping in his lower ...
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Transforaminal epidural steroid injections for the treatment of lumbosacral radicular pain in a Nigeria tertiary hospital: observational study
... study evaluated the clinical effectiveness of epidural injection in radicular pain; Rados et al. compared the efficacy of deposit- ing the steroid into the lumbar epidural space through transfor- aminal and ...
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α7 Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated anti-inflammatory effect in a chronic migraine rat model via the attenuation of glial cell activation
... with the literature in this respect. In this study, a parallel increase in TNF- α and IL-1 β was observed after the recurrent epidural administration of IS. TNF- α and IL-1 β were also both significantly ...
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<p>Parameters associated with efficacy of epidural steroid injections in the management of postherpetic neuralgia: the Mayo Clinic experience</p>
... Epidural steroid injection (ESI) with the transforaminal and interlaminar administration of steroids and local anes- thetics is among the more common treatments for patients with refractory PHN. However, its ...
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<p>Aggregation properties of triamcinolone acetonide injection in human serum: considerations when performing epidural steroid injections</p>
... steroid is the well-accepted mechanism; therefore, epidurals performed in spinal locations with dense local arterial flow are most vulnerable to these devastating outcomes. Available case series reports support this ...
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