No Back Pain Relief From Spinal Steroid Injections – Can Chiropractic Help?

Have you had spinal steroid injections and it did not significantly improve your back pain? Why?  This situation will be explored in this article.

Many times patients with back pain will seek care from their primary physician.  Initially, anti-inflammatory medications may be prescribed.  This could be ibuprofen, prednisone, etc.  If this is not effective then imaging, more specifically an MRI will likely be ordered.

The next recommendation will depend upon what is found in the MRI.  The most likely findings could be:

For any of the above findings, a spinal injection may be recommended and oftentimes is performed.  But, why would it not relieve your back pain (No back pain relief from spinal steroid injections).  There was an interesting study performed that helps us answer that question.

In this study, they took a population of patients like you.  They had objective findings on their MRI – disk bulges, disk herniations, disk protrusions, degenerative disk disease, etc. but did not experience back pain relief from their steroid injections.

The researches then decided to do another round of spinal injections but instead performed them to the Sacroiliac Joints.  The sacroiliac joints are part of your pelvis and can also cause back pain.  The results may surprise you.  Between 40-50% of these patients experienced significant improvement in their back pain by treating the sacroiliac joint rather than the lower back where all the findings were – the disk bulges, disk herniations, etc.

This is really important!  Have you had any treatment performed to your sacroiliac joints?  Your sacroiliac joints may be the cause of your pain, not the MRI findings of your lower back.  I have had numerous patients with similar results.  They have findings on their MRI in their lower back and then we start adjusting and treating their sacroiliac joints and their back pain improves.

If you did not experience back pain relief from steroid injections then call my office today at 651-779-5998 for a FREE Consultation.  There is no-obligation for care.  We specialize in Short Term Care For Back Pain.  Our goal is to improve your pain and get you the relief you want in the fewest visits possible.  We take our recommendations one visit at a time.  No long term treatment plans.  Call today, 651-779-5998 to feel better faster.

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