An epidural is an anesthetic delivered through a catheter (small tube) into a potential space outside the spinal cord called the epidural space. Using this catheter, we are able to infuse a solution ...

Those with a history of previous lumbar spine surgery or those who had received epidural steroid injections within the last 6 months were excluded. Patients were randomized to injections with ...

In cervical and lumbar radiculopathies, epidural steroids probably reduced short-term pain and disability, and possibly decreased long-term disability, reported Carmel Armon, MD, of Loma Linda ...

They had accidentally punctured my dural sac [the protective membrane that surrounds the spinal cord] twice ... with Martinez being told the epidural failed due to the "anatomy" of her back.