Costly Diagnostic MRI Tests Unnecessary for Many Back Pain Patients
Monday, December 12, 2011 - 16:31
in Health & Medicine
Johns Hopkins-led research suggests that routine MRI imaging does nothing to improve the treatment of patients who need injections of steroids into their spinal columns to relieve pain. Moreover, MRI plays only a small role in a doctor's decision to give these epidural steroid injections (ESIs), the most common procedure performed at pain clinics in the United States.