… Abstract: This study examined factors that help to identify low back pain patients who do not
benefit from a lumbar epidural steroid injection (LESI). Two-hundred and forty-nine chronic …

… a complication after the steroid injection, although each patient was counseled before the
injection regarding a rise in blood glucose levels after the injection because prior studies have …

… We evaluated whether demographic and comorbid factors were predictive of a patient’s …
injections do not show either sex or age to be a predictor of outcome. Comorbid Factors …

… of predictive factors examined, but also illustrated the paucity of solid data. A number of
plausible predictive factors … Evidence for predictors of pain relief after IA steroid injection in knee …

… identify factors for predicting the … steroid injections have been used as an adjunct in the
treatment of resistant radiculopathy.5,12,13 More recently, use of lumbar transforaminal injection …

… identify predictive factors for treatment success in transforaminal epidural steroid injection in
… unilateral sciatica and underwent transforaminal epidural steroid injections at the level of L4-…

… To identify the predictive factors, we included the first-month follow-ups in the study, as our
… However, many valuable studies investigating predictive factors in ESI treatments in non-…

… significant predictive factor of a decrease in pain was the use of opioids at the time of the
injection… differently to cervical epidural steroid injections – the results are limited by a number of …

… Four retrospective articles studied imaging as an epidural steroid injection prediction tool.
Four … steroid injection prediction tool. EMG, electromyography; ESI, epidural steroid injection. …

… The likelihood of subjects to report a positive benefit from cervical epidural steroid injections
… to have a predictive value, additional research is needed in identifying predictive factors to …