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…