Epidural steroid injections treat pain associated with pinch and inflamed nerves. It is not considered surgery if you decide to go with this method of treatment. As a matter of fact, epidural steroid injections are very beneficial and is becoming quite popular in today’s pain managing trends.
What are epidural steroid injections?
ESI are a minimally invasive injections used for various types of pain including joint pain, knee pain, back and neck pain.
What does epidural steroid injections treat?
4 spinal conditions such as Disc herniation, spinal stenosis, degenerative disc disease, and sciatica.
- Disc Herniation is caused when the outer ring of a disc ruptured and the soft center of the disc begins to push through. This causes irritation to the surrounding nerve tissues of the spinal column. ESI injections helps to improve pain and management symptomatic herniated lumbar disc.
- Spinal stenosis is a condition involving any type of narrowing of the spinal canal or nerve root canals. This causes lower back pain, the feeling of cramping or weakness in the back or lower extremity pain which ESI injections help relieve.
- Degenerative disc disease describes the natural part of ageing and changes that most people exhibit in their spinal discs.
- Sciatica refers to pain that stems from the sciatic nerve, a large nerve extending from the lower back down the back of each leg. The pain that Epidural steroids injections treat is pain that starts in the lower back and radiates to the buttock and down the back of the leg.
Find epidural steroid injection treatment plans at Centers of Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine. Visit our website and see other treatments that we offer for our patients in Placentia, Orange, and Irivine, CA.
If you’re a first time patient, we compiled a simple list of what you should bring to your appointment. To schedule your appointment visit us at www.ocpain.net.
