Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston

Acute sciatica sufferers get only short-term relief from intravenous steroids

Published in Physician Business Week, March 14th, 2006

Although intravenous (IV) steroid injection reduces pain in patients with severe acute sciatica caused by a herniated spinal disk, the improvement is small and lasts only a few days, according to a study in the February 15, 2006, issue of the journal Spine.

Led by Axel Finckh of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, the researchers studied the benefits of IV "pulse" steroid therapy in 65 patients hospitalized for sciatica related to a herniated intravertebral disk. In this condition, a bulging disk in the spinal column places pressure on a spinal nerve root. The result is pain, weakness, and numbness anywhere along the course of the sciatic nerve, which runs down...

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Source: Physician Business Week (2006-03-14)

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