What is a Spinal Epidural Steroid Injection?
What is a Spinal Epidural Steroid Injection?Answer: One of the most common treatments for managing certain types of chronic back pain, an epidural steroid injection is a shot of anti-inflammatory steroid medication delivered to the area between the vertebrae and the outer covering of the spinal cord. This area is known as the epidural space. Epidurals necessarily involve needles. In order to guide the needle to the exact location where the medication is to be delivered, the doctor uses fluoroscopy, which is a system that takes x-ray images of the area and projects them onto a monitor. Epidurals are usually tried after conservative, non-invasive treatments have not proven successful, but just before bac
