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Is it effective to use epidural and cortisol shots for back pain?
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Yes it is: Especially for people how have chronic pain , people how refuse surgery and people how have problem not bad enough to have surgery.
Answered 10/3/2016
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Depends: The treatment should be based on the cause of bake pain in some cases epidural steroids will help and in other cases they can be useless. Talk to pain specialist who has experience and capability to make full evaluation.
Answered 1/6/2013
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ESI: An epidural steroid injection is a minimally invasive procedure that delivers steroids via a needle directly into the epidural space to help reduce inflammation. It's been shown to be more effective for radicular pain, but can be effective for back pain as well.
Answered 12/10/2013
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