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Obesity and Lumbar Disc Herniation
It is not often that surgeons and doctors agree, but there are some rarities. One topic of agreement is the problem of obesity in treating lumbar disc herniation. In a recently published article in the...
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Caudal epidural steroid injections do not work for lumbar radiculopathy
We recently came across an article published in the British Medical Journal 2011:343:d5278 entitled Effect of caudal epidural steroid or saline injection in chronic lumbar radiculopathy: multicentre,...
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Epidural Steroid Injection and Bone Loss
Painkillers and Loss of Bone Mass As if postmenopausal women did not have enough to worry concerning bone loss, new research says epidural steroids for back pain robs them of bone. “A single epidural...
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Lumbar Spinal Stenosis – Asymptomatic Patients and Surgery
In the medical journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage researchers in Japan discovered something unsettling for the diagnosed stenosis patient. It seems that many asymptomatic individuals (patients with...
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Epidural Steroid Injections for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
What should a patient expect from epidural steroid injections for lumbar spinal stenosis? New research says little improvement, more complicated surgeries, and longer hospital stays, especially if you...
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Epidural Steroid Injections for Low Back Pain in Post Menopausal Women
In recent blogs we published medical findings that cast doubts on the efficacy of epidural steroid injections for low back pain. New research suggests that not only is their usefulness in doubt, but...
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Lumbar Stenosis and Total Knee Replacement
There are many variations of the old expression, “don’t fix the roof if the foundation is crumbling.” Here is another variation: “Don’t replace the knee if spinal stenosis is present.” They are...
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Exercise and Weight Loss are Part of Comprehensive Prolotherapy – an update...
Comprehensive Prolotherapy has been shown to be a very effective minimally evasive, non-surgical option for chronic low back pain. What makes it work even better is if the patient is not obese and...
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