Epidurals to ease labor weren’t really used in the delivery room until the 1940s; during the next couple of decades, the procedure gradually began to supplant other methods used to ease birthing pains ...

American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine guidelines highlight SSI prevention in regional anesthesia and ...

Nyborg had developed a spinal epidural abscess, according to Dr. Andrew Chan, a neurosurgical spine surgeon and director of ...

Study selection RCTs that enrolled patients with chronic non-cancer spine pain, randomised to receive a commonly used interventional procedure versus sham procedure ... provide little to no difference ...

For people with radiculopathy, the review says studies show epidural steroid injections may be effective at modestly reducing pain and disability for up to three months after the procedure.

When Maria Waters, a 58-year-old GP from Richmond, in Surrey, went for her hospital outpatient appointment last summer, she ...

This procedure, called percutaneous image-guided lumbar decompression (PILD), removes part of a ligament that’s gotten thicker. This keeps the ligament from affecting the nerve root and frees up ...

Correspondence to Dr W Brinjikji, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, OL1-112 SMH, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; Brinjikji.waleed{at}mayo.edu Spinal epidural arteriovenous fistulas ...

C. In a move to provide advanced solutions for chronic pain sufferers, OrthoNebraska is now offering minimally invasive ...

A spinal epidural abscess is an infection that can ... are decompressed with a surgery called a laminectomy. During this procedure, surgeons typically remove both sides of the lamina, or the ...

These include injections of such as local anesthetic, steroids, or their combination; epidural injections, and radiofrequency ablations. They analysed reviews of randomised trials and observational ...