How Soon Epidural Steroid Injection Works in Elderly People
This article is about how soon in an elderly patient an epidural steroid injection may take to work. […]
Epidural Injection for Sciatica Injected Outside the Disc?
Wondering how effective an epidural injection for sciatica would be if the injection were NOT administered directly into the problematic disc? Well, this is a fair question for the layperson with sciatica, but the answer [...]
Are Epidural Injections Safe for the Elderly?
A doctor explains the safety of an epidural injection for the elderly patient including those with heart disease. You may also be wondering if this procedure is done under general anesthesia (to guarantee the patient [...]
New Pain After Epidural Steroid Injection: Cause, Solution
Perhaps you’ve had an epidural steroid injection for a herniated disc which solved the sciatica pain, but now you have a new kind of discomfort. Have you recently had an epidural steroid injection to relieve [...]
Herniated Disc Treatment: Conservative or Decompression?
The big question is: At what point does conservative treatment for a herniated disc switch over to decompression treatment? A herniated disc can be treated with conservative means or with a technique called percutaneous disc [...]