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How doe an epidural for hip pain work ?
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Reduce inflammation: An epidural in your back can be used to reduce the inflammation and pressure on a nerve root for a nerve that goes through your hip. There are a variety of procedures that treat hip pain. The right diagnosis will improve the treatment's success.
Answered 9/7/2013
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It helps reduce : Inflammation around your nerves within the spinal canal that is responsible for producing pain in your hip.
Answered 9/8/2013
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