Introduction: Practice of epidural steroid injections have been used in the past in for lumbar radiculopathy. We observed and analysed outcomes of caudal epidural steroid injections in the management of lumbar radiculopathy due to disc herniations. Methods: In this study, 45 patients with lumbar radiculopathy due to disc herniation between the ages of 18-50 confirmed by MRI were included in the...

We read with great interest a recent study by Ghai et al (1) wherein they followed 56 out of 69 randomized patients for 12 months following parasagittal interlaminar (PIL) injection with local anesthetics (LA) alone or LA with steroid (LS). We agree with author’s choice of technique to achieve adequate and consistent ventral epidural spread of injectate. Parasagittal interlaminar epidural stero...

BACKGROUND Meralgia paresthetica is a clinical syndrome of pain, dysesthesia or both, in the anterolateral thigh. It is associated with an entrapment mononeuropathy of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. Diagnosis of meralgia paresthetica is typically made clinically and is based on the characteristic location of pain or dysesthesia, sensory abnormality on exam, and absence of any other neurol...

Plantar Fasciitis is responsible for 15% of all foot problems. Over ten percent the population will be affected at some point in their lives. It caused by inflammation a broad band tissue that links your heel bone to toes and runs across bottom (plantar fascia). fasciitis type plantar causes stabbing pain when you take first steps morning. The discomfort usually goes away as get up move around,...

Pain originating from ophthalmic disease has been well documented. A series of patients presenting with eye or periorbital pain attributed to cervical region dysfunction were diagnosed and treated with injections of subcutaneous lidocaine followed by triamcinolone acetonide. Twelve patients, 11 women and 1 man, ranging in age from 20 to 82 years had an evaluation including a complete eye examin...

The knee joint is one of the most commonly affected locations for various musculoskeletal diseases, such as knee osteoarthritis [1], seronegative spondy loarthropathies, infectious etiologies and trauma. These conditions could not only impair functionality of the knee joints but also cause pain in these areas. To facilitate diagnosis of the underlying disease, arthrocenteses are sometimes neede...

PURPOSE To present the results of dextrose prolotherapy undertaken for chronic non-responding coccygodynia in 37 patients. METHODS 14 men and 23 women (mean age, 36 years) with chronic coccygodynia not responding to conservative treatment for more than 6 months were included. 27 of them had received local steroid injections. A visual analogue score (VAS) was recorded for all patients before a...

UNLABELLED Previous study has shown that the use of intramuscular (IM) steroid leads to improved symptoms in patients with group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus (GABHS). OBJECTIVE To compare oral with IM steroids as an adjunct to antibiotic therapy in the treatment of acute exudative pharyngitis. The null hypothesis was that there would be no difference in effectiveness of oral versus IM stero...

background low back pain (lbp) is one of the most common complaints that is reported by all age groups. objective this study was aimed to investigate the efficacy of epidural steroid injections (epsi) related to different volume injections for treatment of acute low back pain with radiculopathy. patients and methods the study is consisted of seventy five patients who had acute discogenic pain. ...

Background: Most of the lumbosacral radiculopathies are caused by irritation spinal nerve roots associated with lower back and leg pain. common causes for root intervertebral disc herniation canal stenosis, other include spondylolisthesis, spondylosis, thickening ligamentum flavum, scoliosis etc. Lumbar radiculopathy frequently treated epidural corticosteroid injections. Common route administer...