At the tail end of 2011, a report in Bloomberg Businessweek highlighted a growing problem in the $300 billion pain market: the increase in severe and unexpected complications for patients who undergo ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion performed with a biplanar expandable cage may be a ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Evidence of the effectiveness and safety of CT-guided, lumbar transforaminal injection of steroids in the treatment of radicular pain is scant, according to a presenter here. Nikolai ...
The risk for rare but potentially catastrophic neurological injuries from epidural steroid injections (ESIs) can be substantially reduced if anesthesiologists and other clinicians follow specific ...
Transforaminal injection of steroids was determined to be a viable alternative to surgery for lumbar radicular pain due to disc herniation, a new study shows. 54 percent of patients achieved pain ...
Lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TF-ESIs) are a common type of treatment for radicular pain caused by a disc herniation. Predictors of favorable response (> 50% pain reduction beyond ...
This section describes safety outcomes from the published literature that the committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see the ...
A recent study from Australian researchers determined that transforaminal injection of steroids was a viable alternative to surgery for lumbar radicular pain due to disc herniation. Full details of ...