This can cause chronic pain and numbness in the neck and lower back. While steroid or cortisone injections are sometimes used to help control pain, they may not be effective. According to the AAN ...

Ineffective treatments for acute low back pain included exercise, steroid injections, and paracetamol (acetaminophen), the study found. For chronic low back pain, antibiotics and anesthetics were also ...

Intradermal water blocks consist of 4 intradermal injections of 0.05- to 0.1-mL ... that intradermal water blocks reduce severe low back pain in most laboring women without any identified side ...

Only 1 in 10 nonsurgical treatments for low back pain are more effective placebo, a review of 56 different treatments and ...

Only around one in ten non-surgical and non-interventional treatments for lower back pain are effective, a research study has suggested.

The types of vertebrae are: A number of other imaging and electrical studies may also be used to identify back problems, and some injections are used for diagnostic purposes as well as for pain ...

These included three for short-term low back pain – exercise, steroid injections and acetaminophen – and two for chronic back pain, antibiotics and anesthetics. For the rest of the treatments included ...

In chronic low back pain, botulinum neurotoxin type A improved patients' pain and functional outcomes vs placebo and other local injection therapies.

They said that exercise, paracetamol and glucocorticoid injections “probably provides little to no difference in pain” for acute lower back issues. Antibiotics and anaesthetics were also found ...