Category: Clinical Trials
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Epidural steroid injections compared with gabapentin for lumbosacral radicular pain: multicenter randomized double blind comparative efficacy study – BMJ 16 April 2015
Last week we had oral steroids for radiculopathy. This week we have epidural steroids. Still no difference. This surprises me, maybe, a little more than the other result. Putting the steroid right where you ‘need’ it is something we do with osteoarthritis, another ‘low inflammatory’ state, all the time. And in OA there is definitely…
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Oral Steroids for Acute Radiculopathy Due to a Herniated Lumbar Disk – JAMA May 19, 2015
I’ve always been perplexed about why doctors would give a not-risk-free drug (steroids) for a problem that is not clearly ‘inflammatory’. Giving steroids for acute radiculopathy – lower extremity nerve pain caused by a herniated disc – is, as far as I know, not recommended by any professional society and there is no evidence to support its use…
Steven Vlad 