People with lower-back pain have several options for potential relief, including spinal manipulation, massage, medication, surgery, and simply letting time pass. But steroid injections are an ...

A chart-review study found low-dose dexamethasone mixed with local anesthetic was the optimal injectate for use in ILESIs for lumbar radiculopathy.

Though most instances of lower back pain are more inconvenient than they are medically concerning, back pain can be a symptom of certain diseases that need additional treatment, and, in some cases, ...

Used by doctors to treat conditions that occur when the body produces abnormally low amounts of ... muscle and joint pain, and the desire to take more anabolic steroids. In injectors, infections ...

Patients with GPA completely weaned off glucocorticoids were four times as likely to flare compared with those kept on a low ...

These topical drugs can help provide pain relief ... injecting the steroid into the affected joint or trying other medications in combination to keep the dose of steroids as low as possible.