Postmenopausal women suffered significant bone density loss in their hip after they were treated with an epidural steroid injection for back pain relief, according to a new study. Bone density loss ...

Among postmenopausal women who received an epidural steroid injection (ESI) in the lumbar spine to treat back and leg pain arising from a compressed nerve in the spine, levels of bone formation ...

Carpal tunnel syndrome, which affects about three percent of women and two percent of men, is caused by excessive pressure on one of the the nerves in the wrist, Carpal tunnel syndrome, which affects ...

As many as one in four women in the U.S. suffer from chronic pelvic pain. A lot of times medication, steroid injections or physical therapy will help, but for women whose pelvic pain comes from the ...

(CNN) — Doctors and patients should beware if they’re hoping to use steroid injections to relieve the pain associated with osteoarthritis. The shots may be doing more harm than good. In a new study ...

Patients treated with an epidural steroid injection for back pain relief are at increased risk of bone fractures in the spine, according to a new study. Researchers say the risk of fracture increased ...

Lower back pain A team of investigators assessed outcomes following epidural steroid injections for pain relief in older adults with new episodes of back pain. Study finds that older adults with a new ...

CHICAGO -- U.S. veterans with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee got no more benefit from intra-articular corticosteroid injections than from lidocaine shots in a randomized cross-over trial, and neither ...

Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? An at-home corticosteroid injection that can be used to treat angry, inflammed ...

Infrapatellar fat pad glucocorticoid injections failed to show significant improvements in joint effusion or pain in knee osteoarthritis.

Doctors and patients should beware if they're hoping to use steroid injections to relieve the pain associated with osteoarthritis. The shots may be doing more harm than good. In a new study published ...