We describe a patient who developed transverse myelitis (TM) following a nerve root injection of steroids and anesthetic at L2 for radicular pain. A 42-year-old woman developed progressive lower ...

TWO Queenslanders became paraplegic and a third was left with incomplete tetraplegia almost immediately after each had one injection of steroids. Jane Watson became a paraplegic following a injection ...

Former personal assistant Jane Watson, 61, of Brisbane and Cairns accountant Brad Wszola, 45, are now dealing with life in a wheelchair as a result of epidural steroid injections. Cairns man Brad ...

Epidural corticosteroid injection (ECI) has been part of the nonsurgical treatment of sciatica for nearly half a century, and is widely used in everyday clinical practice. Numerous open-label studies ...

Former personal assistant Jane Watson, 61, of Brisbane, and Cairns accountant Brad Wszola, 45, are dealing with life in a wheelchair as a result of epidural steroid injections. Graeme Foster, 47, of ...

A study by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has found, for the first time in humans, that patients with chronic sciatica - back pain that shoots down the leg - have evidence of ...

WHEN Brad Wszola tried to find relief for some shoulder pain, he went to hospital for a nerve root injection. He passed out after the procedure and when he woke he’d lost the use of his legs. The ...