Anesthesiologists must always wear face masks when material is injected into the epidural or spinal space, regardless of location, according to a post in Anesthesiology by J. Lance Lichtor, MD, ...

MRI The majority of interventional spine physicians reported using magnetic resonance imaging ahead of lumbar epidural steroid injections to correlate with the physical examination. The majority of ...

Researchers from McMaster University and collaborating institutions found that commonly performed interventional procedures for chronic non-cancer spine pain may provide little to no pain relief when ...

Spine injections should not be given to adults with chronic back pain because they provide little or no pain relief compared with sham injections, say a panel of international experts in The BMJ today ...

A large study on the effectiveness of injections for spinal stenosis was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in July of this year. It was designed by top doctors in the field of pain ...

By AMA standards, an epidurogram is more than visualizing the contrast flow in the spine during and/or after an injection; it’s a diagnostic study to be used to aid the physician in finding a reason ...

There many safe minimally invasive medical approaches for various options for chronic low back and leg pain treatment. Naturopathic approaches such as massage and acupuncture are excellent ...

Codes 22520, 22521 and 22522: These CPT codes were changed from a percutaneous vertebroplasty, 1 vertebral body, unilateral or bilateral injection; thoracic or lumbar and add-on code for an additional ...

Dr. J. Alex Sielatycki, a fellowship-trained spine surgeon at Colorado Advanced Orthopedics (CAO), has noticed a surge in requests for his orthopedic spine procedures. As a result, he will increase ...

Physicians who regularly perform injection treatments for back pain can make a lot of money. An editorial comment on the Abbott study suggested that the doctors who are doing very large numbers of ...