Chronic low back pain is one of the most prevalent and disabling medical conditions worldwide. Chronic low back pain can interfere with work, family life, and overall wellbeing. Despite advances in ...

Treatment for sacroiliac (SI) joint pain typically follows a stepwise approach ... or ultrasound guidance to enable precise placement. Steroid injections can rapidly decrease swelling, reduce pain, ...

Services now offered through the Interventional Pain Management Clinic include: • Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injections – Alleviates ... with minimal with minimal recovery time. • Sacroiliac Joint ...

Sacroiliitis (arthritis of the sacroiliac joints ... but CT-guidance can be used to access the SI joint with a needle, for either therapeutic cortisone injection or aspiration if infection is ...

Getting a cortisone shot for knee arthritis might provide quick pain relief, but new research reveals a troubling association ...

With a prevalence of 365 million, the knee is the most frequently affected joint, according to the ... of insufficiency fractures linked to steroid injections," Dr. Upadhyay Bharadwaj said.

Depending on the stage of your medical training, the sacroiliac joint is variably mobile. Way back in the anatomy lab, I remember being taught that this large joint was practically immobile. The sheer ...

A spinal steroid injection—also known as an epidural injection—may only reduce neck and back pain for a few months, according to a recent review by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).

Steroids used in various forms like eye drops, skin creams, nasal inhalers, tablets and injections can increase intraocular pressure which leads to damage of the optic nerve. "The main cause of ...

For people living with sickle cell disease, joint pain, especially in the knees, can be a frustrating and persistent companion.When swelling and fluid build-up occur in the joint, doctors often ...