Pain in the News: “Common Back and Leg Pain Treatment May Not Help Much, Study Says”
Pain in the News: “Common Back and Leg Pain Treatment May Not Help Much, Study Says”
31 August 2014
Spotted in The New York Times: July 2, 2014
“A widely used method of treating a common cause of back and leg pain — steroid injections for spinal stenosis — may provide little benefit for many patients, according to a new study that experts said should make doctors and patients think twice about the treatment”….. read more
THE RESEARCH A Randomized Trial of Epidural Glucocorticoid Injections for Spinal Stenosis N Engl J Med 2014; 371:11-21