The 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) is certainly creating a lot of noise. The critical issue with the MPFS that no one talks about — also known as Medicare Part B — is there is not a ...

Objective To study the role of epidural steroid injection (ESI) in patients with lumbar disc herniation (LDH) and lumbar canal stenosis (LCS). ESIs are regularly used to support non-operative ...

Samantha Lauriello is a social media strategist and editor. She was previously an assistant editor at Health before moving over to Travel + Leisure as a social media editor. Epidurals are generally ...

Study design: A cross-sectional study. Objective: We compared the 12 month outcomes of fluoroscopically guided transforaminal epidural steroid injections with interlaminar epidural steroid injections ...

Objective To assess the usage patterns of epidural injections for chronic spinal pain in the fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare population from 2000 to 2014 in the USA. Design A retrospective cohort.

aDepartment of Neurosurgery, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK bDepartment of Pain Medicine, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK cDepartment of Pharmacology and ...

Credit: Getty Images. This month’s case resulted in a large monetary verdict against the physician, possibly a record-breaking sum in the New York country where it took place. This month’s case ...

3 clinical pathology, Faculty of Medicine. Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt Background Epidural injections are one of the most common nonsurgical interventions for managing chronic low back pain. They ...

Micah Parsons passed his physical with the Packers after last week’s trade with the Cowboys, but he reportedly hasn’t put the back issue that he was dealing with in Dallas in the rearview mirror just ...

As Micah Parsons gets his start with the Green Bay Packers, his first appearance with the team might be up in the air. Parsons has been dealing with a L4/L5 facet joint sprain in the vertebrae in his ...

Labour is described as one of the most intense, emotional, and physically demanding experiences a woman can go through. For many, the pain is severe, often ranked higher than the pain of broken bones ...

Regional analgesia has been shown to be effective in providing pain relief in labour. Regional analgesia can be an epidural, a spinal or a combination of the two. An epidural is when the ...