More than one million people are diagnosed and treated each year in the United States for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), a condition that occurs from the narrowing of the spinal canal. Peter Staats, M.D., in conjunction with Riverview Medical Center, is offering LSS patients a groundbreaking new procedure, mild (minimally invasive spinal decompression) that safely and therapeutically reduces pain and improves mobility. Read more »
Patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis do not benefit from epidural steroid injections
Researchers at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson examined data on patients being treated for lumbar stenosis and the degenerative spine condition spondylolisthesis and found that patients who received epidural steroid injections (ESI) had a higher rate of crossover to surgery and fared worse in physical health and bodily pain versus those who did not receive ESI, dispelling their pre-study hypothesis. Read more »
How can people take lethal doses of tylenol abusing pain killers and not get liver problems or stop breathing?
Dana asked: I was dianogsed with spinal stenosis and siatica and put on vicodin es i am fairly new to pain killers and have heard all kids of horror stories of abuse and addiction i would never dare take a gram of tylenol over 4000 a day for fear of liver damange how can people [...] Read more »
