TRANSFORAMINAL EPIDURAL STEROID INJECTIONS, THERAPEUTICAL POSSIBILIETIES AND TECHNICAL ASPECTS IN RELATION TO RADICULAR PAIN SYNDROMES

Periradicular therapy (PRT) is one of the most common procedures within interventional pain clinics and also neurological, neurosurgical and radiological clinics. Despite the popularity other the method ist technical performance is often imperfect and incorrectly indicated. In the current clinical practice, the method is mostly perceived as a therapeutic procedure when applying the mixture of … Read more

Technical aspects of epiduroscopy

Epiduroscopy is a proven method of diagnosis and treatment for chronic radicular pain after spine surgery. The exact mechanism of pain relief after epiduroscopy remains unknown, but removal of epidural adhesions is the most prominent theory. The authors describe their own experience with the procedure and technical details of performing epiduroscopies. Limiting procedure time and … Read more

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