The association between patient- and procedure-related factors and patient-reported intraprocedural pain during fluoroscopically guided lumbar epidural injections: A real-world cohort study
Andrew R Stephens, Hasan S Sen, Timothy M Curtis, Ali Arafat, Austin Le, Campbell Miller, Amanda N Cooper, Zachary L McCormick, Aaron Conger, Daniel M Cushman · 2026
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Andrew Stephens and co-authors probe pain felt during back injections in a 2026 study. Lumbar epidural steroid shots are a common fix for leg pain from the spine, and pain during the shot can shape patient trust and will to repeat it. What drives that in the moment pain in daily practice was dim.
The cohort covers adults who had X ray guided shots by three routes at one center in 2022. Pain was scored just before and after, with in shot pain recalled right away by patients to staff out of earshot of the doctor. The team then weighed patient and procedure traits against those scores and set the three routes side by side.
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| CREATOR | Andrew R Stephens, Hasan S Sen, Timothy M Curtis, Ali Arafat, Austin Le, Campbell Miller, Amanda N Cooper, Zachary L McCormick, Aaron Conger, Daniel M Cushman |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |