A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury. The ...

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 ...

Scientists have been searching for better ways to treat back pain, and a new breakthrough may offer hope. A team led by Dr.

It is one of the most common medical conditions in the world - yet we often don’t know what causes it, nor how best to treat ...

If you have back pain or decreased flexibility, you might want to consider receiving lumbar facet joint injections or lumbar facet steroid injections. Of course, you might first be wondering ...

Opens in a new tab or window Epidural anesthetic or steroid injections, nerve blocks, and related interventions are commonly used to treat chronic back pain. This review found no solid evidence ...

Common interventional procedures for chronic non-cancer spine pain, such as epidural steroid injections, nerve blocks, and radiofrequency nerve ablation, offer little to no pain relief compared to ...

Having a higher socioeconomic status is associated with greater rates of surgical resource usage before spinal fusions, according to a study in the April 2025 issue of The Spine Journal. Five things ...

What Are the Treatments for Spinal Stenosis? Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the canal in your spinal column that affects mostly people age 50 and older. Nothing can cure it, but there are ...

Those with a history of previous lumbar spine surgery or those who had received epidural steroid injections within the last 6 months were excluded. Patients were randomized to injections with ...