No Difference by Injection Approach for Low Back Pain

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No Difference by Injection Approach for Low Back Pain

Transforaminal epidural steroid injections, despite being widely regarded as superior to interlaminar injections, are not significantly superior in providing pain relief or functional improvement for radiating low back pain, a new systematic review of trials shows.

“I think these findings are definitely controversial, but I have had numerous people say to me that this is in fact very consistent with their experience using these two modalities,” said lead author George Chang Chien, DO, from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Illinois.

Study results were presented here at the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) 30th Annual Meeting.

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