Altering Path Boosts Benefit of Spinal Injection

The parasagittal approach for interlaminar spinal steroid injections proved more effective than the midline approach for reducing pain scores in patients with unilateral lumbar pain, researchers said here.
While pain scores fell for all patients with radiculopathic back pain from lumbar disc disease who were given interlaminar injections, the differences from baseline were only significant in the parasagittal group (P=0.037), Kenneth Candido, MD, of the University of Illinois in Chicago, and colleagues reported at the American Academy of Pain Medicine meeting. MedPage Today