Sciatica and epidural corticosteroid injections
Prescrire International 24(157): 49
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 1167-7422 PMID: 25802923 Document Number: 679409
According to trials conducted in hundreds of patients with sciatica, epidural corticosteroid injections have no demonstrated efficacy beyond the placebo effect, either in the short-term or the long-term. However, they expose patients to a risk of sometimes serious neurological adverse effects.
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