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If you or your loved one suffered a severe neck or back injury, your doctor might recommend epidural steroid injections after trying other options.
These injections are a typical treatment procedure for patients with lower back pain, disc herniation, cervical or lumbar strain, and sciatica.
Doctors offer them once the conservative treatment fails. Doctors might proceed with epidural steroid injection therapy when someone who underwent an auto accident or a fall goes through several weeks of chiropractic care or therapy without seeing improvement.
Should this treatment also fail, then surgery can become an option? If you contact our compassionate Los Angeles spinal cord injury attorney, Michael Ehline, he and his team can help you understand better how you can maximize your payout. It’s essential in accidents where victims suffer from lower back injuries, lumbar strain, a herniated disc, sciatica, and other conditions.
An epidural steroid injection is a minimally invasive procedure that delivers corticosteroids and a local anesthetic agent into the spine’s epidural space. This space is the fat-filled area between your spinal nerve’s protective sac and bone.
The procedure aims to mitigate pain and allow the patient to resume regular activities and a physical therapy treatment program. These steroid injections reduce nerve inflammation and are more effective when injected directly into the area in pain.
However, they don’t reduce the size of a herniated disc; they only work on the spine’s nerves. The relief from epidural steroid injections can last from a couple of days to some years, allowing people’s condition to improve if they couple it with another physical or exercise therapy.
This treatment is helpful for many patients experiencing inflammatory conditions. When symptoms begin to hinder their rehabilitative exercises, these steroid injections can ease their aches and let them continue.
It can also help determine whether surgery might be necessary for people with a herniated disc. Some surgical procedures that might prove required are:
If you suffered an undesirable event that left you aching, it would be appropriate to discuss the situation with your physician first, as there are situations in which you shouldn’t submit to these injections.
A possible side effect of a steroid injection is weakening the bones of the spine and nearby muscles. Other effects of the injection are skin thinning, loss of skin color, insomnia, moodiness, and facial flushing.
Doctors usually administer three steroid injections over 12 months because the risk increases with the number of injections. Nonetheless, it’s one of the safest options to treat a painful injury or a herniated disc.
Suppose you’re receiving epidural steroid injections for a herniated disc, the aggravation of a pre-existing disc, or another back wound after a car collision. In that case, you might wonder how the treatment may affect the value of your case. For instance, you might consider postponing surgery until later.
Epidural steroid injections can increase your compensation more than conservative therapy options. Still, surgery can increase the average settlement value for a herniated disc even more. If you are confident that it’s just a matter of time before you get any of these two options, it might be a good idea to do them before settling.
Otherwise, don’t undergo a serious medical procedure only to increase your injury case payout. Both surgery and injections can maximize the offer your attorneys can get for back and disc damage cases. If a negligent driver rear-ended you and suffered damages, consider filing a tort claim.
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After all, we have helped multiple victims with disc injuries recover their expenses, including steroid injections, surgery, and any future costs incurred after the case.
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