A commonly-used medical procedure spinal injection of a mixture of lidocaine and anti-inflammatory steroid has been shown to be no more effective in relieving certain symptoms of back problems than ...

Question: What are my options for non-surgical treatments to relieve back and neck pain? Answer: There are a wide variety of non-surgical options for back and neck pain. Spinal injections (explained ...

Have you ever bent forward and felt like you just couldn’t straighten out again? Maybe you get a “kink” in your neck whenever you look up at the sky? Does just twisting feel like somebody is sticking ...

Twelve specialty societies, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists and others whose members include pain physicians, have joined together to maintain coverage for facet joint injection ...

A simple diagnostic imaging procedure can help identify patients with lower back pain who would benefit from spinal injections and spare those who would not, according to a study appearing in the ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 75-year-old male and have had pain in my buttocks down to my outside thigh muscles. My primary care doctor ordered an MRI of the lower back and referred me to an orthopedic ...