Epidural Steroid Injections for Low Back Pain

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 825-834

  Stout, Alison ^a,b  

^a Veterans Administration   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Caudal; Epidural steroid; Interlaminar; Low back pain; Low back pain treatment; Lumbar; Spine intervention; Transforaminal

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; CLONIDINE; DICLOFENAC; GLUCOCORTICOID; INDOMETACIN; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; OPIATE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE;

CAUDAL ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG SAFETY; FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME; FLUOROSCOPY; FLUSHING; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INJECTION SITE REACTION; INSOMNIA; INTERLAMINAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; NERVE BLOCK; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; TRANSFORAMINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ANESTHESIA, CAUDAL; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; LOW BACK PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; SCIATICA;

EID: 77958463310     PISSN: 10479651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmr.2010.08.001     Document Type: Review

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