====== Lumbar Epidural injection ======

There are 3 types of [[Epidural injection]] techniques currently being used: [[transforaminal]] (TFEI), [[interlaminar]] (ILEI), and caudal epidural injections (CEI).

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[[Caudal epidural injection]]

[[Transforaminal lumbar epidural steroid injection]]

In 1997 Carette et al stated that although [[epidural corticosteroid injection]]s of methylprednisolone may afford short-term improvement in leg pain and sensory deficits in patients with sciatica due to a herniated nucleus pulposus, this treatment offers no significant functional benefit, nor does it reduce the need for surgery
((Carette S, Leclaire R, Marcoux S, Morin F, Blaise GA, St-Pierre A, Truchon R, 
Parent F, Levésque J, Bergeron V, Montminy P, Blanchette C. Epidural
corticosteroid injections for sciatica due to herniated nucleus pulposus. N Engl 
J Med. 1997 Jun 5;336(23):1634-40. PubMed PMID: 9171065.
)).