With an epidural steroid injection, a steroid or corticosteroid medication is injected into a part of the spine called the epidural space. The goal is to help reduce certain kinds of back pain.

Those with a history of previous lumbar spine surgery or those who had received epidural steroid injections within the last 6 months were excluded. Patients were randomized to injections with ...

In other situations, benefits were unclear or limited. Epidural steroid injections demonstrated limited efficacy in reducing back pain and disability, according to a systematic review from the ...

"This is especially true when they are performed on people who have pain only in their lower back or another type of pain that will not likely be helped by an epidural steroid injection.

“Epidural steroid injections are very common after traumatic injuries such as car accidents or slips and falls,” says Devers.