Vancouver Sunday afternoon chatter:
“The Rams are the best football team in the league!”
“No way! The Vikings are the best!”
Can you just hear it?
Believe it or not, that kind of talk goes on amongst spine researchers, doctors, and patients, too, when it comes to the epidural steroid injection benefit. No one agrees. We at Vancouver Disc Centers want to share with you some of the theories out there, so you can make a well informed decision as to your choice to incorporate them into your Vancouver back pain treatment plan or not should they be offered as an adjunct to your care.
“They Don’t Work!”
In a comparison study of true caudal epidural steroid injections to saline injections, neither is recommended for chronic lumbar radiculopathy.
(1) “They Work!”
Intradiscal injections of anti-inflammatory corticosteroid relieves low back pain in Modic Type I disc changes.
(2) Now, Modic type 1 disc changes are early changes in the degenerative process. So it [may well be|might be|looks like it is]11] good to use steroids early on in your pain cycle.
Let’s talk at your next Vancouver chiropractic appointment. Vancouver Disc Centers has the experience in conservative back pain relief you are seeking.
“They Work 50/50!”
Caudal epidural injections with local anesthetic regardless of the use of steroids might be effective in patients with disc herniation or radiculitis. One study shares that the steroids may be better at a one year follow-up than the anesthetic by itself.
(3) A COMBINATION: chiropractic & EPIDURAL SPINAL INJECTION
Vancouver Disc Centers has seen Vancouver back pain suffers find relief when a skilled pain management doctor, and our chiropractic spinal manipulation are combined. After correct diagnosis and injection site is found by the pain management doctor, we get to work on your back with our non-surgical, gentle spinal manipulation - The Cox Technic. Read the following summary of the benefits epidural spinal injection and Vancouver’s chiropractic method can produce.
chiropractic spinal manipulation combined with epidural steroid injection is written to be safe and aid in the treatment of patients with radiculopathy – arm pain or leg pain – with the spine being the origin of the pain. As a matter of fact, in a study of 80 patients treated and followed for one year, there were no adverse effects from the spinal manipulation (flexion distraction with high velocity low amplitude adjusting) though there were three adverse effects with the epidural injections. This shows chiropractic treatment after epidural steroid injections is a safe, non-surgical option. (4)
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Lumbar Spine |
Cervical Spine |
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significant improvement |
37% |
50% |
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temporary improvement |
42% |
30% |
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no change |
22% |
20% |
Your spine is your spine. Its condition is unique to you, and Vancouver Disc Centers helps Vancouver back pain sufferers get rid of lower back pain all the time! We can help you.
Read more about epidural steroids. Talk with your pain doctor and your chiropractic professional here at Vancouver Disc Centers so that we may work together for your back pain relief plan be that with epidural steroids, or without. Contact Vancouver Disc Centers today to discuss these or to get your post-epidural steroid injection appointment scheduled today.