Injections for Back Pain

How epidural injections, medial branch blocks, radiofrequency procedures, trigger-point injections, and biologic injections differ.

An injection has a target, a purpose, and a risk profile. The useful question is not “Do injections work?” but “Which procedure, for which suspected pain source, with what expected benefit, and what happens next?”

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