Monthly Archives: January 2023

Spine Injections Part 2 – Facet-directed Lumbar Injections

Part 1 of this series discussed lumbar epidural steroid injections (ESI). These injections are primarily reserved as a diagnostic workup of radicular (leg) pain, or as a therapeutic modality when noninvasive treatments have failed. Evidence of nerve root compression should be seen on advanced imaging like a MRI, correlating with the clinical findings. Isolated low…

Spine Injections Part 1 – Lumbar Epidural Injections

Back in 2018 we published an introductory article on injections. However we thought we’d elaborate more with a series of blogs on the various types of injections. In Part 1 we’ll tackle epidural injections in the lumbar spine. A lumbar epidural injection involves a provider inserting a needle into the epidural space and injecting a…