This short duration is expected and normal in a test injection. If the injection only contains local anesthetic (numbing medicine), then this is a test (diagnostic) injection and will last for roughly 6-8 hours. With steroid injections, if a patient receives at least 3 months of benefit, most will be able to repeat this injection in the future when the beneficial effects fade. Some patients may not see benefit from the steroid until 7-10 days have passed since the injection. There are certainly patients who receive a longer benefit and there are unfortunately patients who receive a shorter benefit. If the procedure involves the injection of steroids, a positive response generally lasts between 3-6 months. One of the most common questions asked regarding a procedure is how long the benefit will last. We will follow the list of low back pain causes that we previously outlined, and discuss what injections might help those issues.īefore we look at each injection’s specific benefits and risks, I will broadly state a few characteristics that are present for all procedures. We now turn our discussion to the third and final non-surgical pillar of treatments which includes injections and other minor procedures that I do not classify as “surgery”. There are three major non-surgical categories in the treatment of low back pain: therapy, medications, and injection/procedures.
If you’ve been keeping up with our blogs recently, you might remember when we first discussed the variety in the kinds of treatment for back pain. OLIF: Oblique Lumbar Interbody Fusion (for L2-L5).Minimally-Invasive Lumbar Microdecompression.Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF).Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection.Acute and Chronic Spine Pain Management.
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