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Most clinical guidelines do not recommend routine use of epidural steroid
injections for the management of chronic low back pain. However, many clinicians
do not adhere to these guidelines. This comprehensive evidence overview concluded
that off-label epidural steroid injections provide small short-term but not long-
term leg-pain relief and improvement in function; injection of steroids is no
more effective than injection of local anesthetics alone; post-procedural
complications are uncommon, but the risk of contamination and serious infections
is very high. The evidence does not support routine use of off-label epidural
steroid injections in adults with benign radicular lumbosacral pain.
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