Study design: Report of seven patients with fibrous adhesive entrapment of lumbosacral nerve roots as a cause of sciatica, whose radiographic findings were negative and who experienced relief from ...

Nerve blocks are used for pain treatment and management. Often a group of nerves, called a plexus or ganglion, that causes pain to a specific organ or body region can be blocked with the injection of ...

Q. My son, age 22, has lower back pain that runs down the back of his right leg. He can’t sleep on his right side or sit for very long. He’s had X-rays and MRIs, and no one can find the problem. What ...

It is a type of pain which generates from the nerves that have been damaged in the spine. Nerve is responsible to carry signals to the brain and various other organs of the body. In this condition, ...

The occipital nerve runs from the base of the skull along the back of the head. An occipital nerve block is a procedure to temporarily provide relief from pain related to this nerve, such as that due ...

Patients who underwent lower limb orthopedic surgery and received a single-shot femoral nerve block had an increased risk for falls during the early postoperative period. Recipients of a single-shot ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “No current guidelines include [greater occipital nerve] block in the management of migraine headache although ...

TWO Queenslanders became paraplegic and a third was left with incomplete tetraplegia almost immediately after each had one injection of steroids. Jane Watson became a paraplegic following a injection ...