It’s not often I disagree with findings
in a journal but I sometimes do…
Steroid Injections May Provide Little Benefit
For Spinal Stenosis Patients.
Pam Belluck writing in the New York Times
reported that a study published in The New
England Journal of Medicine showed that “a
widely used method of treating a common cause
of back and leg pain — steroid injections
for spinal stenosis — may provide little
benefit for many patients.”
The research involved “400 patients at 16
sites.”
Comment: The New England Journal is notorious
for printing naysaying types of studies and
this is one of them.
In my experience, lumbar epidural steroid
injections often afford relief and definitely
should be considered an alternative to surgery.
