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Use of Corticosteroids in Injections for Spinal Stenosis Does Not Provide Any Additional Benefits in Reducing Pain

A new study has found that combining glucocorticoids, or corticosteroids, with the local anesthetic lidocaine in epidural injections did not provide any additional benefit in reducing pain and physical limitations among spinal stenosis patients. Glucocorticoids, also known as corticosteroids, are commonly used to treat inflammation. "Compared to injections with local anesthetic alone, injections with glucocorticoids provided these patients with minimal ...

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