a steroid or corticosteroid medication is injected into a part of the spine called the epidural space. The goal is to help reduce certain kinds of back pain. For the review, researchers analyzed ...

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Epidural steroid injections for chronic back pain only have a "limited" effect, warns new research. The common treatment may "modestly" reduce pain in some situations for up to three months and ...

Finally, metastasis results when tumor cells in the cerebrospinal fluid deposit tumor cells in the epidural space.This scenario most often occurs in leukemia. [2] Spinal cord compression ...

A new review reaffirms that spinal steroid injections only reduce neck and back pain for a few months, but they don't improve ...