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 ...

Just a week after an American Academy of Neurology (AAN) committee found "limited efficacy" for epidural steroid injections to treat chronic back pain, an international panel is going much further ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ineffective treatments for acute low back pain included exercise, steroid injections, and paracetamol (acetaminophen), the ...

Only 1 in 10 nonsurgical treatments for low back pain are more effective placebo, a review of 56 different treatments and ...

Only around 1 in 10 common non-surgical and non-invasive treatments for lower back pain is effective, suggests a pooled data ...

Having a higher socioeconomic status is associated with greater rates of surgical resource usage before spinal fusions, ...

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 ...

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 ...